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.
Sports at Large is made possible in part by Solar Energy World.
Contact Milton at [email protected] and on Twitter: @SportsAtLarge
Latest Episodes
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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. -
The Orioles are bringing Camden Yards' left field wall closer, aiming to boost offense and attract right-handed sluggers. While hitters welcome the change, questions remain about its impact on free agency and pitching strategy. -
If you’ve spent any time around toddlers, you know how much of a challenge it can be to get them to eat. Sometimes, they can spend as much time playing with their food, as they do actually eating it. With all due respect, watching the Baltimore Ravens play football this year can be a lot like watching a four-year-old at the dinner table. Sometimes, the spaghetti feels as likely to end up on the wall as it might in Tommy’s tummy. -
We’ve reached the two-minute warning, if you will, of the 2024 presidential campaign, the near-conclusion of our long slog of an election season, the end of a grueling, bruising competition. By the end of Tuesday night, we may know whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will coach the American attack – offense, defense and special teams -- for the next four years.
Sports at Large
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There’s a saying at the end of a relationship that goes, don’t be sad that it’s ending, be glad that it happened. If we are, in fact, watching the end of… -
Did you hear the one about the major sports franchise that refused to play the Star-Spangled Banner before games and the furor that ensued? Chances are,… -
For most of the 20th century, the Sporting News was the bible of baseball, the publication where fans went to get player and manager quotes, box scores… -
For the last few years now, the political right in this country has reveled in the slogans “shut up and dribble” or “stick to sports” with those terms… -
It seems incongruous, bordering on ridiculous now in the days just past his death last Friday to say that Henry Aaron was underrated.How could a man who… -
At the end of a relationship, it’s typical for one or both parties to take stock, to dust oneself off, as it were, and try to figure out what went wrong… -
The last nine months or so have been marked with upheaval and a search for what’s familiar and what’s continual. Well, in these troubling times, isn’t it… -
I want to start 2021 with a confession: I play the lottery.Now, this isn’t an everyday thing. I don’t jeopardize my retirement or anyone’s college fund… -
It’s customary, at the end of a year, for wags and pundits to sum up the previous 12 months in a crude context, by naming those whose reputations have… -
There’s very little that many of us will take from this dumpster fire of a year. Most people I know have already purchased a calendar for 2021 in joyous…
