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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When a birth announcement shakes up conventional wisdom. -
Curt Flood's fight for player freedom seems to be keeping him out of the baseball Hall of Fame. -
Like pre-pandemic clothing, former Maryland men's hoops coach Mark Turgeon doesn't fit anymore -
Social media fuels sexism and racism against female athletes -
Like Ferris Bueller, the NFL may win even when it loses. -
Angel and Julian Reese hope to keep Maryland basketball titles all in the family. -
The NFL quarterback who outsmarted himself over COVID vaccination. The answer: Who is Aaron Rodgers. -
The NAACP pleads with pro athletes to avoid Texas over voting and legislation issues. -
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has free speech issues with China. Again. -
The NFL is sitting on thousands of emails that could shine a light on league and team policies.
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The new 2018 calendars are hardly in place on the walls, and the New Year’s Eve hangover is barely a memory, and yet, you, the Baltimore sports fandom,… -
In millions of American homes, mine included, families are sitting down right about now to enjoy Christmas dinner, with gifts from earlier in the day,… -
By all rights, Sunday should have been a really good day for Jerry Richardson.The Carolina Panthers team that he owns won a big NFL game, defeating the… -
Let’s assume the folks at Turner Broadcasting aren’t clairvoyant, that their scheduling of a loop of Star Wars movies this weekend was just an attempt to… -
Here’s the long and short of what I know about the University of Central Florida: The school is located in Orlando and its mascot is the Knights. Its… -
For all the comfort and joy the holiday season can bring, the gatherings of family and friends over the last six weeks of the year can also be… -
In the nearly year and a half since Colin Kaepernick first took a knee, we’ve learned a lot about the NFL and, by extension, the nation.For one, we’ve… -
The calendar says that it’s only been a couple of months since the Ravens’ season started. And the numbers say that we’re halfway through, with eight… -
In June of 2014, the story on the cover of Sports Illustrated predicted the Houston Astros would win the World Series in 2017.At the time, the pick seemed… -
In normal situations, the moment that the schoolyard bully is revealed to be all talk and no action is a celebratory one.In that instant, the playground…
