Sports at Large
"Sports at Large" airs Mondays at 2:34 P.M.
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
Latest Episodes
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Looking for integrity in college sports? You're looking in the wrong place. -
Why the torpedo bat is a good thing for baseball. Seriously! -
Welcome to Sports at Large. I’m Milton Kent.Here’s a rhetorical question; If you hit the jackpot early on in your career, how long do you get to ride the wave before people expect you to strike gold again? -
Welcome to Sports at Large. I’m Milton Kent.It didn’t take long after news of Maryland athletic director Damon Evans’ departure for Southern Methodist broke for one of the local newspapers to trot out a list of potential replacements. -
Welcome to Sports at Large. I’m Milton Kent.Because American election campaigns are so lengthy and so fraught with drama, one can be forgiven for wanting nothing to do with anything relating to the balloting process, especially since we’re just done with one of the most traumatic votes in the nation’s history. -
This is Sports at Large. I’m Milton Kent.If you check baseball commissioner Rob Manfred’s preseason to-do list, you’ll see there are the predictable items. They include getting a tan during spring training, practicing his signature to go on all the balls and greasing the wheels for the Dodgers and Yankees to get back to the World Series. -
I’m Milton Kent and this is Sports at Large.That was some wind that blew through over the weekend, one that augurs profound change for years to come. Oh, you thought we were speaking of the gusts that brought on chilly conditions late Saturday and Sunday? -
We’ve learned a lot about ourselves as a society in the last 15 or so years, and most of it isn’t good.Differences that were presumably negotiated and resolved are anything but. Wounds that had been considered bandaged are now open and festering. -
In the dead of winter, with snow and ice in the forecast and bitter winds swirling, there are four words that ought to warm even the frostiest heart.They are “Pitchers and catchers report.” -
Ten people.The number of players on a basketball court at one time. The number of players on a baseball lineup card with a designated hitter added. The number of players on either side of a football line of scrimmage minus one.
Sports at Large
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In Washington, a handful of legislators are preparing to say goodbye to public life in the lame duck session of Congress.Some will make farewell speeches.… -
In my bachelor days, I would occasionally come upon a carton of milk in the refrigerator that was just about to reach its expiration date. I’d give it the… -
What a mess!No, not the Afghan puppy that’s the subject of a series of children’s books, but rather the situation the Ravens and the NFL find themselves… -
If your household was like mine around this time of the year, the life of the turkey we dined on on Thanksgiving Day extended long past the meal of the… -
All around the sports landscape, champagne corks are being popped and backs are being patted with the news that a woman has been welcomed into the ranks… -
The diamond of a baseball stadium is a remarkably competitive place, even in the cold of winter, when there are only echoes of games gone by.And it’s not… -
Over a 12 year career, Bobby Orr provided a platform for defenseman play that is the gold standard in hockey. The photo of Orr flying through the air in… -
If we’ve learned nothing over the past seven months, it’s that there truly is no shame in college sports. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in March,… -
In recent weeks, baseball fans have seen some of the greatest names in the game’s great history go on to their eternal reward with such notables as Tom… -
In the midst of the pandemic, Americans have been forced to find forms of entertainment that don’t involve getting in a car and leaving home. In the…
