MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Fort Hill hosts North Hagerstown tonight at Greenway to mark the first meeting between the schools since 2014. Used to be the Sentinels and the Hubs, which I always thought was a cool nickname, played every season beginning in 1957 as members of the Cumberland Valley Athletic League, better known…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports That Maryland is now safe to play as an underdog on the FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY cards is a hopeful sign, as the Terps have covered the spread the past two weeks against two very good Big Ten teams. There was a time not long ago when Maryland wasn’t even on…
Check out the dates and times for the area trick or treat events scheduled for 2025!
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MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports In the unfortunate ESPN vernacular that is, it was called an instant classic, and it was if you consider 15 gut-wrenching innings, 15 pitchers, 4 hours and 58 minutes of anxiety and 472 high-stress pitches to be instant. The decisive moment came on a 3-2 pitch with the bases loaded…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports For the baseball fan whose team is not involved in the Major League postseason, watching the opening rounds of the playoffs – the wildcard series and the divisional series – is not unlike watching the first weekend of March Madness. There are games to get lost in everywhere, in seemingly…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The Baltimore Ravens were booed off the field by the Baltimore fans after Sunday’s 44-10 loss to the meh Houston Texans, making them 1-4 for the first time in 10 years. Put this up there with one of the most embarrassing losses in franchise history, let us count the ways.…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Aside from losing my FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY football card on a push in the Miami-Florida State game, it wasn’t a bad weekend. It just would have been easier to have lost my AMUSEMENT on a blowout. Speaking of which, just as recent Maryland football sellouts, which we can count on…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports As the rest of Baltimore was coming to grips with the in-progress Ravens disaster for the coming four months, Orioles president of baseball operations Mike Elias and interim manager Tony Mansolino laid to rest the just completed Orioles disaster of the previous six months, a lost season in the middle…