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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If you’re the type that makes a wager on such things, and you bet that one of the major team sports wouldn’t be able to make it through its first week… -
Like a steak tied at the end of a rope and thrust just out of reach of a hungry dog, the reappearance of live sports is being laid before us ever so… -
Fans of professional basketball have become accustomed to seeing a studious man named Adrian Wojnarowski present the news, good or bad, about the… -
The United States marked the anniversary of its independence Saturday, but Jonathan Irons got a three-day jump on celebrating his own liberty, a… -
If there is a positive to be taken from this heretofore miserable year, it may be that 2020 is when we learned how powerful images and symbols can… -
As seemingly every part of the American landscape has been touched in some way by the culture wars, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that sports have… -
All around the sports landscape, signs of a return are sprouting up like spring greenery.The NHL and NBA have announced their plans to resume their… -
Smilin’ Roger Goodell had the chance to do the right thing, to say what everyone already knew, to finally come clean after four years of obfuscation.And… -
In the wake of the horrifying death of George Floyd, social media timelines have been flooded this past week with amazing words and images.Some of the… -
In most respects, our attitudes about women’s athletics have evolved with the times. As more and more girls and women run, jump and throw with the boys…
