MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Baltimore Orioles executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias addressed the media on Tuesday for the first time since firing manager Brandon Hyde on Saturday. Elias said the change was made in light of the Orioles’ poor performance for the better part of the past calendar year. A new…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports This not just in, but also last week, just prior to the Preakness (what a race!) and to the 2025 Baltimore Orioles (who lost us at hello) imploding, Major League Baseball Commissioner (Gak!) Rob Manfred announced he was lifting the permanent ban from baseball of the late Pete Rose, and…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports In John W. Miller’s extraordinary book about the extraordinary Earl Weaver, “The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball,” MIller wrote, “During the era of the baseball manager, fans and front offices believed you needed one of these larger-than-life leaders to build a great baseball team…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The Washington Wizards just can’t catch a break. Call it the Curse of Kwame. The NBA Draft Lottery was held Monday night and the Utah Jazz (17 wins this season), the Wizards (18) and the Charlotte Hornets (19) all entered with the best odds of 14% to win the No.…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports So what are the Pittsburgh Steelers doing? Are they coyly holding cards, or are they trying to accumulate more draft picks for next year to be in the hunt for Texas quarterback Arch Manning? The Steelers currently have 12 picks in next year’s draft, with five coming in the first…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Derek Shelton walked the plank on Thursday, but his walk was merely the swing gate for more walks to come, and, barring a Festivus miracle, walks that will soon come. The Pittsburgh Pirates are 12-26 and their record has been bad since Shelton became manager six years ago. As Bill…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports In one aspect, the Baltimore Ravens are fortunate placekicker Justin Tucker had such a bad season last year because it means his release from the team on Monday being solely a “football decision” stands as legitimate. Then there is the other thing surrounding Justin Tucker, which really isn’t the other…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports President Donald Trump, after meeting with Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred last month, said that he believes baseball’s all-time hits leader Pete Rose will be put into the Hall of Fame. For his part, Manfred said he is considering a petition to have Rose posthumously removed from MLB’s permanently ineligible filed…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports To call the first full month of baseball around here uninspiring would be accurate, but uninspiring. It’s been a bloody mess. As of the first day of May, the Washington Nationals were off to the best start of the three area teams with a … 13-18 record? The Baltimore Orioles…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports These are heady times for Washington Commanders fans. Since the Josh Harris group took over the franchise in July of 2023, the team has upgraded the fan experience at training camp, secured a new stadium naming rights deal with Northwest worth $7 million annually, spent over $70 million repairing the…
