Allegany Communications Sports w/ Mike Burke

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Yes, we’ve seen it before; we’re seeing it again. Only the names change to protect the hitting. This year it’s 20-year-old Jackson Holliday, the No. 1 prospect in baseball, who in nine games in the big leagues is 1-for-30 with just two walks and 16 strikeouts. The same people who […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports April baseball is so fickle. In the matter of a week a team can look like the goods, or a fraud; but just two three-game series later? You got it, there’s an entirely different perspective on a team; any team. Take the Baltimore Orioles, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Washington […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Yesterday was Jackie Robinson Day in Major League Baseball, the day when fans who aren’t tuned in to the world never know who most of the players are because they’re all wearing No. 42 to honor the Brooklyn Dodgers great Jackie Robinson, who became the first Black player in MLB […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Get there early tonight and stay late: Jackson Holliday is coming to town. And what do you know? Baltimore Orioles general manager Mike Elias has proven to be a man of his word. Elias told us at the end of spring training, Holliday, MLB’s No. 1 prospect, was not being […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Congratulations to the Dapper Dan Club of Allegany County for its choice of Marshall University’s Abby Beeman as its Top Award recipient for the April 28 Dapper Dan banquet at Ali Ghan Shrine Club. She is the perfect choice first and foremost because she earned it, and she did so […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Within one week’s time, Major League starting pitchers Shane Bieber and Eury Perez have been scheduled for Tommy John surgery, Spencer Strider has serious elbow concerns and Gerrit Cole and Kyle Bradish are out with elbow issues as well. Here’s why pitchers’ elbows keep exploding: Modern training, modern theory based […]

2 Hour’ summit convenes in the ‘Burgh MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It’s Opening Night in Pittsburgh, which is always a huge thing as the ‘Burgh is going to be electric tonight. Raising the bar even higher, of course, is the Pirates are 6-1 to start the season with the best record in the National […]

Not a great game, but a legit event MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports LSU star Angel Reese declared for the WNBA Draft on Wednesday, while Iowa star Caitlin Clark had declared much earlier, even though both players still have college eligibility. On the surface, Joe Everyman wonders why on earth either one of them would […]

41 years later, Cinderella dances again MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports North Carolina State basketball clearly wins the prize as the winner of every year’s greatest sports weekend – the weekend baseball season begins and the NCAA Final Four teams are determined – as both the Wolfpack men’s and women’s teams clinched Final Four berths […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It will be with a heavy heart that Baltimore gathers for today’s Opening Day at Camden Yards given the tragedy of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, obviously for the loss of life and for all that the Port of Baltimore means not only to Baltimore, but to the entire country. […]