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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Stop me if you’ve heard this before: There’s cheating going on in college sports and no one knows what to do about it. -
The landscape is dotted with plenty of ways for people of a certain age to try to stay relevant, up to and including sports cars, hair plugs, Botox and tummy tucks, to name a few -
When Brandon Hyde sat at a microphone last week and declared that he was irritated at the abrupt end to the Orioles season, he spoke for a shockingly small number of Baltimoreans. -
No matter what this October portends for the Orioles, the immediate and perhaps extended future appears to hold considerable promise for the franchise. -
There’s been a collective feeling around Baltimore since the news broke that Brooks Robinson died that we now have this guardian angel above the clouds, doing what he can to make things better. -
We’re only a month and change into the 2023 college football season, but there’s already a dominant storyline and a central place where the story is being told, as well as a vehicle to tell the story through. -
Former baseball slugger Dick Allen once pithily said quote if a horse won’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it unquote, a reference to playing on artificial turf. -
In a sport like football that takes itself way too seriously, there is no place more sacrosanct than the position room. It’s the place where players who play the same position and the specific coaches who lead them congregate to contemplate in the days leading up to that week’s holy war. -
Of all the places one might expect to go for absolution, it’s a fair bet that a volleyball match would be fairly low on the list. Yet, that’s exactly what happened last Wednesday at the University of Nebraska’s Memorial Stadium, though hardly any of the more than 92,000 people in the house realized that was what was happening at the time. -
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In a season where the no-hitter is humdrum, John Means threw a classic. -
Baltimore needs to take advantage of a once in a generation opportunity to correct a mistake. Here's how. -
University of Maryland's Cole Field House is poised to honor two pioneers. But is it the right move? -
Don't look now, but the NCAA's stance supporting transgender athletes is surprisingly the right one. -
To no one's surprise, Masters' officials kept quiet about Georgia's new voting laws. -
Looking for beacons of hope with the Orioles? Trey Mancini and Matt Harvey are just the guys to watch. -
NCAA president Mark Emmert is bad at his job, but he still gets a vote of confidence. -
In an NCAA tournament filled with surprise, one constant is sexism. -
At the end of a trying year, Brenda Frese hopes for a title. -
When the games finally end for LeBron James – and there is no sign that that end is anywhere in sight – he will leave as one of the true titans of his…
