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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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. -
Michael Strahan faced criticism on Fox’s NFL Sunday for not placing his hand over his heart during the national anthem, reigniting debates about patriotism and personal choice. Strahan, from a military family, defended his stance, underscoring cultural tensions around public displays of national pride.
Sports at Large
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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…
