MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The NFL announced on Monday that it again lied on its oath to have a level playing field for all teams when it announced the schedule for this weekend’s Week 18 games. The Baltimore Ravens (11-5) and the Pittsburgh Steelers (10-6) are still in play for the AFC North title…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The Baltimore Orioles are currently aceless. Some would say clueless. Many others, gutless. Or, worse – forever cheap. I have my own theory, but in the case of one-year Orioles ace Corbin Burnes signing a 6-year, $210-million free-agent contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks, let’s just say the Orioles are aceless…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Here’s hoping your Christmas was merry and that you were able to watch many of the great Christmas movies that flood the airwaves from mid-November to December 26, unless they are Hallmark Christmas movies that seemingly air from mid-October to the first pitch of the baseball season. I didn’t see…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Earl Weaver used to call it negative positive reinforcement and, in this case, it worked again. Understand, it’s not a toy, so you have to pick your spots in using it. So, naturally, when I pulled the trigger on it last week, I knew the Baltimore Ravens would beat the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It’s the biggest game of the season for the Baltimore Ravens. A shot at first place is on the line for them and a chance to clinch the AFC North is riding for the Pittsburgh Steelers. It will be a 4:30 game in front of the home folks, and before…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Ty Johnson? Every “best game yet” he plays for the Buffalo Bills makes me laugh, and it makes me laugh out loud. And I know I’m not alone. Everyone here supports this guy, because this guy always supports us. Yet I still hear in my mind, “He’ll never play a…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Ran into the Frankfort Falcons line last Thursday night. No, seriously. We dine at the same restaurant and they were having a group dinner and I stopped by their table to wish them well, briefly interrupting their business meeting, Very gracious and poised young men, these guys were polite and…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Contrary to literary myth, Robert Frost did not write the line, “You can never go home again.” What he did write was, “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.” All of these years later, 17 to be precise, that suits…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports If it’s two weeks before Christmas then baseball’s Winter Meetings are underway; and so they currently are in Dallas, having started not with a bang, but with a sonic boom with the New York Mets’ signing of free-agent outfielder (if you want to call him that) Juan Soto to a…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It was a little more than a year ago Sunday as I was at the market buying produce for the week when an avid Fort Hill football fan struck up a conversation and with great concern asked, “How are they going to replace that line?” “They” being the Fort Hill…
