Sports at Large is a weekly exploration of the issues and people who play and watch sports. SaL goes behind the headlines and stats to find the how and why, and the ways in which sports intersect with and influence our daily lives. SaL features interviews and commentaries from professionals and fans a like to tell a more complete story. One person described it as "a thinking fan’s guide to sports."
Milton Kent is a veteran of Baltimore sports media, having covered the World Series, the Final Four, NFL conference championship games and high schools over a career that spans over four decades. He currently teaches journalism at Morgan State University, where he is an advisor to the school newspaper, The MSU Spokesman. He and his wife live in Baltimore County.
Contact Milton at [email protected] and on Twitter: @SportsAtLarge
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Think the new baseball labor deal has settled matters? Think again. -
Mo Creek's escape from Ukraine is a page out of a spy novel. -
The traditional postgame handshake might be going the way of the dinosaur -
Imagine a better Olympics. It's easy if you try. -
Adding the designated hitter brings the National League into the modern era of sports. -
One viewer is skipping the big football game for puppies. Here's why. -
Keeping Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens out of the Hall of Fame is the right call. -
Antonio Brown's sideline meltdown has some wondering if his mental state is in play. -
Forty-five minutes with John Madden leaves a lifetime of memories. -
COVID concerns dominate the 2021 sports calendar, just as they did in 2020.
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While there are no actual NFL games at the moment, there’s also no shortage of drama during what is supposed to be an offseason.Some of it is ridiculous,… -
Spend any appreciable time around those in Generation Z, the group born between 1995 and 2015 and you understand that the only constant is change.… -
For millions of Americans, things like soy and almond milk and plant-based protein have become important substitutes for more traditional products like… -
If you want to know how far baseball is off its moorings, consider this: Pete Rose is claiming the high moral ground.Yes, that Pete Rose, the guy who… -
If the people who run football had their way, you’d see their game not in terms of a mere battle between offense and defense, but rather in the context of… -
It’s quite likely that Sunday’s news of the passing of Kobe Bryant will be this generation’s moment where everyone remembers where they were when they… -
These are heady days for the WNBA, a phrase you rarely, if ever, have heard before.Yet, as the women’s professional basketball league approaches its 24th… -
Was Alfred Lord Tennyson right nearly two centuries ago when he queried if it’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all?Or, posited…
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One of the recent trends in sports is to assemble some of the greats of a game onto an athletic version of Mount Rushmore.David Stern, who died New Year’s…
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At their best, sports provide a bridge to connect otherwise disparate groups often across racial, gender and ethnic lines.But, our games, or more…
