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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For a number of reasons, the little ditty that Carol Burnett used to sing each Saturday night has occupied a place in my head recently.The song, “I’m So… -
The changes that have been wrought in the games that we watch in the recent past are relatively nominal compared to what’s happened to the ways in which… -
The end of the NBA playoffs in June brings within a few weeks the start of the league’s free agency period. And with that comes a string of signings with… -
It was 241 years ago this week that Thomas Jefferson and a band of brothers unleashed the Declaration of Independence, one of mankind’s greatest… -
The calendar says late June, and, in a sports context, that, for many, means baseball and the early stages of a pennant race. But, soon enough, the…
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Look at the schedule of virtually every professional and collegiate team in the country and you’re sure to find dates where the club aligns itself with a… -
If you’re an Orioles fan and you’re looking for a piece of good news from this past weekend, some ray of sunshine from three otherwise lousy days and… -
This was supposed to be the week where Serena Williams was going to take the next step towards removing Margaret Court from the record books.Williams… -
The debate over one man’s responsibility to another is as old as mankind itself, dating all the way back to Earth’s first sibling rivalry, between Cain…
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It’s graduation season and, after suffering through mostly meaningless and interminable speeches exhorting them to do good in the world, millions of young…
