by Milton Kent | Mar 28, 2018 | Baltimore Orioles, Sports Media
Tuesday’s news that the Orioles have officially scrapped airing their games on broadcast or over-the-air television is a sign of the times, but hardly a surprise.The decision of the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, the Orioles-owned regional sports channel, to forgo...
by Milton Kent | Feb 19, 2018 | Sports Media
What do Dan Hicks, NBC executives and a certain sports media writer have in common? We all called a competition over on the air before it really was, in fact, over.My mistake happened nearly 34 years ago on a college radio station, when I said the Maryland-Miami...
by Milton Kent | Jan 2, 2018 | Sports Media
In homes and offices around the country this week, millions are changing calendars, tossing out 2017 models and unveiling new 2018 editions. Implicit in those changes is a hope that the new set of 365 days brings an improvement to the previous 365.There are few places...
by Milton Kent | Oct 22, 2017 | Sports Media
When Jemele Hill returns to work Monday as co-anchor of ESPN’s 6 p.m. SportsCenter, she’ll find a very different atmosphere than the one that existed two weeks ago when she was suspended, one where the oxygen of unfettered speech may have vanished.And that lack of...
by Milton Kent | Aug 18, 2017 | Baltimore Ravens, Sports Media
The Ravens’ defense and special teams aren’t the only folks having a good exhibition season. Their former head coach, Brian Billick, isn’t doing so bad himself.Billick is having a nice time in the broadcast booth on the simulcasts of the team’s preseason games. Not as...
