Sports at Large

"Will the U.S. welcome World Cup, Olympic visitors? You can tell, in most households, when company is expected. The carpet gets vacuumed; the best China is taken out of storage and kids are told to be on their best behavior.

"Will the U.S. welcome World Cup, Olympic visitors? You can tell, in most households, when company is expected. The carpet gets vacuumed; the best China is taken out of storage and kids are told to be on their best behavior.

Though the calendar says that spring begins in late March, everyone knows that the true marker of the season is baseball’s Opening Day.

Generally speaking, it’s difficult to find athletes who are willing to give up parts of their careers to make a principled stance, and that’s understandable.

Generally speaking, it’s difficult to find athletes who are willing to give up parts of their careers to make a principled stance, and that’s understandable.

Generally speaking, it’s difficult to find athletes who are willing to give up parts of their careers to make a principled stance, and that’s understandable.

One of former President Ronald Reagan’s favorite asides was that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are I’m from the government and I’m here to help. As the academic year comes to an end, we may have a new disturbing phrase, shorter, but no less scary: Donald Trump wants to save college sports.

Caitlin Clark is bringing the culture war and basketball to Baltimore.

How Brandon Hyde's firing should place Mike Elias on the hot seat.

Why the Ravens shouldn't be applauded for cutting Justin Tucker

How new ownership can bring new hope in Baltimore and DC.

Why the Ravens are treading on thin ice with Mike Green draft pick.

Why the Orioles would be mistaken to let Cedric Mullins go.

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?

The next time you’re at a sporting event, professional, collegiate or otherwise, take a moment to look around and take notice of what’s going on while the national anthem is performed. The public address announcer will ask all in attendance to stand and honor America, and if you’re a man, you are asked to remove your hat. What happens next is up to the individual. There are those who will belt the...

It’s taken a few weeks after the heartbreaking end of the 2024 baseball campaign for the Orioles’ postseason strategy under the guidance of general manager Mike Elias’ to be revealed. And in a few words, and with all due respect to former president Ronald Reagan, the plan appears to be “Move Back That Wall.” Specifically, the most visible thing Elias has said or done since the Birds were swept out...

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 wa...

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. But for the collection of men and...

There’s more than one way to stay on top of your profession. One of the best ways is to take what you do best and meld it with the new trends, making your operation germane and important, now and going forward. For the better part of eight decades, Anthony Dominick Benedetto, better known as Tony Bennett, was a musical force, a singer’s singer, who began as a nightclub crooner, singing the standar...

James Franklin has a problem. So, too, does Kevin Hambly. Franklin is the head football coach at Penn State and Hambly is the volleyball coach at Stanford. While they lead teams in different sports, their issue has its roots in the same source: the greed of those who run college football. Franklin’s dilemma is that because the conference the Nittany Lions belong to, the Big Ten, a mostly Midwester...

Spend a moment talking to Baltimore sports fans of a certain generation and it won’t take long to figure out that they can carry a grudge against other cities and their sports teams. The root of some of those animosities are easy to decipher. Simple geography dictates that a rivalry between Baltimore and Washington must take place. For years, the Orioles and Senators did battle in the American Lea...

We’re nearly past the second week of the new pro football season and the NFL is already at a philosophical crossroads. The league is again confronted with the specter of an incident in which one of its higher profile players suffered a concussion in a nationally televised game. When Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa collapsed to the turf late in the third quarter of Thursday’s loss to the...

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.