MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Buffalo Bills running back Ty Johnson participated in practice Thursday afternoon wearing a red non-contact jersey as he remains in concussion protocol following the hit he took to the head Sunday night on the final play of the first half in the Bills’ 21-14 AFC East divisional win over the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Baltimore Ravens fans are certainly hoping for another Harbaugh family reunion in another month with the same happy ending, the likes of which the nation saw Monday night from Houston after Michigan’s national-championship win over Washington, with the family patriarch, Coach Jack Harbaugh, reminding us all once again that nobody…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The latest edition of the Pittsburgh Steelers-Baltimore Ravens series resulted in the second 17-10 Steelers victory over the Ravens this season. The Steelers needed a win to have a chance to get into the playoffs; the Ravens, the top playoff seed in the AFC, needed to get home safe and…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It’s been clear from the beginning the Maryland basketball Terrapins have a shooting and scoring problem — they don’t do either very well — and this problem was magnified Tuesday against the No. 1 team in the country, the Purdue Boilermakers, who, unlike last year when they were rocked by…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports #NFLTheTVShow schedule makers/scriptwriters thought it through from the beginning when they slated the match-ups for Week 18, the final regular-season week of the 2023 season. Everywhere you look you find games that pit long-time rivals with one another, with most of the games likely to have a big hand in…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It is beyond the eye test at this point given the way the Baltimore Ravens just flattened the Miami Dolphins on Sunday — 56-19 — as to where the current best team in professional football resides. It resides in Bawlmer, hon — it’s ’dem Ravens. Consider, the Dolphins team the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Head coach Michael Locksley said this would be the season Maryland football would be ready to compete for championships. That, of course, didn’t happen, but Maryland football competed, and competed well with the teams that would play for and win those championships — namely Michigan and Ohio State. The 2023…
