MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports A lot of old friends returned to Baltimore for a nostalgic long weekend of sports, beginning with the Colts, the football team that held Baltimore’s heart for 31 years before breaking it that nightmarish March evening 41 years ago. The Ravens, entering their 30th season in Baltimore, hosted the Colts…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Even though he has a sore shoulder, Shedeur Sanders is scheduled to be the starting quarterback Friday night in the Cleveland Browns’ preseason opener against the New England Patriots, and good for him, Sanders will start, presumably, because Kenny Pickett and Dillon Gabriel are nursing hamstring injuries, and because 40-year-old…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports For those who prefer minor league baseball to Major League Baseball – there are a lot of folks who do – who have the Frederick Keys on their circuit along with the Altoona Curve, the West Virginia Black Bears and the Hagerstown Flying Boxcars, an upgrade is in store next…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports August, September and October are when bullpens matter more than at any other time of a baseball season. That is, if you have intentions of winning the World Series, which the New York Mets, San Diego Padres and Philadelphia Phillies clearly do, as they showed Thursday with trades that bolstered…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports With NFL training camp in full swing, and thanks to some really bad baseball by certain teams we know, it seems about right that we’ve had our eye on the upcoming football season. Of course, at this point everything is just hurry up and wait for the anxious football fan,…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports A true Cleveland sports fan emailed to take umbrage with my comment in Wednesday’s column that former Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens owner Art Modell had taken a beating from Cleveland municipal leaders, and not the other way around. She said it had been “written like a true Baltimore fan.”…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Stephen A. Smith has re-proposed the idea he says he put forth last year of one football stadium in Maryland to house both the Baltimore Ravens and the Washington Commanders, which, of course, will never happen, but was thrown to the wall like pasta in light of President Trump threatening…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports We’re only talking about this again because somebody wants us to forget about Jeffrey Epstein. Not getting into that; not getting into anything about it, other than this is yet another shiny-object, change-the-narrative ploy that, given recent history, will likely work. Let’s just talk about the team name Redskins. Whether…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Unlike his short, evil predecessor, Washington Commanders owner Josh Harris continues to give the fans – his customers – what they want and, honestly, what is so difficult about that? Early this week, the Commanders owner announced as he and a team contingent visited the home of Hall of Fame…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It seems it all started to go downhill before it even began, when the Orioles announced in November they were moving in the left-field wall at Camden Yards, which had become known as The Great Wall of Baltimore. With that restructuring the Orioles effectively screwed the good karma of the…
