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- Shelton, the first, won’t be alone for long May 9, 2025MIKE 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…cheyenne
- Ravens wash their hands of a Hall of Fame kicker May 7, 2025MIKE 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…cheyenne
- Pete Rose refuses to go away May 6, 2025MIKE 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…cheyenne
- April showers in Two Hours from Everywhere May 2, 2025MIKE 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…cheyenne
- Hail to the returning heroes April 30, 2025MIKE 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…cheyenne
- NFL Draft drama? Nothing here to see April 28, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The experts say there is no conspiracy in the Shedeur Sanders NFL Draft saga. Maybe not, but just because Frank Drebin says there is nothing here to see and that we should go home, do we have to accept it? With the holier than thou (cough, cough) NFL? Ask Colin…cheyenne
- The best part? No Deshaun Watson April 24, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The NFL hosts one of its most important and most-watched television productions tonight in Green Bay with the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft; or, as it is officially called, the Player Selection Meeting. As we established earlier this week, it’s a very good watch, whether you watch it…cheyenne
- HELP WANTED April 22, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports With the first installment of the annual Baltimore-Washington Parkway series (the parkway can take you directly from one ballpark to the other one unlike the separate beltways) set to begin tonight in Washington, it should be interesting as to how both teams and the series itself are accepted by the…cheyenne
- If Mel’s up there, it’s draft season April 21, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It’s Mel Kiper Jr. time, I see; and I like Mel, but I don’t watch ESPN unless there is a game on of some sort, but it’s always on in the public house I visit on occasion, thankfully with the sound turned down, and over the last three weeks I…cheyenne
- Everyone should remember No. 42 – every day April 16, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Yesterday, 78 years after he broke baseball’s color barrier, Major League Baseball again remembered Jackie Robinson, having formally established April 15 as Jackie Robinson Day in 2004. In 1997, on the 50th anniversary of Robinson’s first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers, MLB celebrated him by retiring his number 42 throughout…cheyenne