MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports In the time I began attending the Alhambra Catholic Invitational Tournament as an 11-year-old kid through the 2019 ACIT, the final one I covered for the Cumberland Times-News, two things stand out as the most impactful storylines of tournament history: The dominance of the DeMatha Catholic Stags, who won a…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Not surprisingly, there has been a lot of feedback from around the country concerning the “indefinite hiatus” of the Alhambra Catholic Invitational Tournament after a historic run of 63 years. The annual March weekend meant a great deal to a great many people all over this country and in…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports I was told and I understood it could happen, and happen soon, but that there was a chance some adjustments could be made. Either way, the possibilities were not promising and nothing would come as a surprise. Yet when I woke up on Wednesday and checked the newsfeed first thing…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports John Angelos needs to go away – far, far away, without the Baltimore Orioles on his person. The son of Orioles owner Peter Angelos, who stewards the baseball organization now that his father is quite ill, simply cannot stand it that the Orioles team itself is again the talk…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Former Fort Hill High and University of Maryland great Ty Johnson signed a one-year contract on Monday with the Buffalo Bills The sixth-round pick in 2019, Johnson had re-signed with the New York Jets in March, of course, after playing in all 17 games the previous season, but tore his…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Stanford, California and SMU are trying to join the Atlantic Coast Conference, with Stanford reportedly willing to join at no cost for the first several years. The ACC has taken multiple votes on the matter over the past week but no progress has been made toward flipping the one…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Based on nothing but the eye test and feel of watching baseball every day since late March, it’s clear the Baltimore Orioles are one of the best teams in the major leagues. Truthfully, they have been since Adley Rutschman arrived as the rookie catcher, as their overall record since is…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Monday night during the MASN broadcast of the Orioles-Padres game, paroled Angelosian prisoner Kevin Brown made a comment along the lines of since the NFL Chargers had left San Diego for Los Angeles the self-proclaimed America’s Finest City (which it may be) had become a Padres town. Given the other…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports For many of us, the true beauty of baseball is that in any game you attend or watch you are likely to see something you’ve never seen happen before no matter how much baseball you’ve watched in your life. Sunday afternoon presented a great opportunity for that for both…
Allegany Communications Sports Yesterday we discussed the annual advent of fall high school sports practices in Maryland and West Virginia and we mentioned a loyal group of folks affectionately known as railbirds, fence-leaners, alumni and fans who are as much a part of summer football practice as summer football practice. The beginning of summer practice…
