Allegany Radio Sports w/ Mike Burke

Allegany Radio Corporation Sports The beautiful thing about Fred McMillan was, is and always will be his insistence upon seeing the beautiful thing in you. For those of you who didn’t know Fred McMillan – though I can’t imagine anybody around here not knowing Fred McMillan – his start into moving onward and upward came […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports The Baltimore Ravens were pretty beat up before their first game, a gruesome 33-27 overtime loss to the Las Vegas Raiders, was even played on Monday night, given the 11 players who were on the injured reserve, including the top three running backs on the roster, as well as […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Sitting in the kitchen here drinking beer, eating Ledo pizza and watching the first #NFLTheTVShow presentation for the coming season. Ah, the glamorous life of the sports writer … I haven’t believed the NFL since I was in the fourth grade when the New York Jets won Super Bowl […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports It felt like the old days when college football was played almost exclusively on sunny Saturday afternoons in front of large enthusiastic crowds just happy to be there to root on their school or their favorite team. It was West Virginia and Maryland renewing their once-annual border-state rivalry in […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports If you’re a Maryland fan, it’s West Virginia week. If you’re a West Virginia fan, you pretend like it’s no big deal — just another game on the schedule, not unlike the way Duke basketball used to say they felt about Maryland “Not our rivals” basketball. But, okay … […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports I remember it as though it were yesterday. An article I had written about Fort Hill High School’s Ty Johnson receiving an offer to play football for the University of Maryland had appeared in that morning’s Cumberland Times-News. As I sat down at my favorite spot in my favorite […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports It’s the greatest two weeks of the sports year – easily. It’s the U.S. Open, stupid. That’s what I did all day Monday, and that’s what I will do all day, every day for the next two weeks. Baseball gets a break – a much needed break, given the […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Break up the Birds, right? You can’t stop the Baltimore Orioles. You can only hope to contain them. ‘Dem ‘O’s, hon, won their second straight game on Thursday, beating the Los Angeles Angels, 13-1, on a hot, steamy Chesapeake Bay afternoon in front of a sparse, but comfortable New […]

Baltimore professional sports has long been known for streaks – both good and bad. For instance, it all started in 1956, when John Unitas, of the Baltimore Colts, who remains the prototype for the modern-day NFL quarterback, passed for a touchdown in 47 consecutive games. That likely doesn’t sound like a big deal to many […]

It’s never been a secret that I have no personal rooting interest, not to mention any kind of interest, in the fortunes of the Washington Nationals. While it is appropriate for our nation’s capital to have a Major League baseball team, it is just as appropriate and fair to remember there were two very legitimate […]