MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports As of Thursday evening, the Baltimore Ravens were a 9.5 to 10-point favorite over the Pittsburgh Steelers for Saturday night’s wildcard playoff game, which many of us find to be ridiculous. Yes, it’s understood that those big, beautiful buildings in Las Vegas did not rise from stupidity. It is also…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports When the new sheriff came to town, namely the ownership group of Josh Harris, Washington Commanders fans expected improvement if for no other reason than no ownership group could be worse than what the franchise had been saddled with for the previous 24 years. There is one thing Daniel Snyder…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports With the close of the regular season and with the latest NFL Sweeps Season, otherwise known as the postseason, upon us, a lot of things are up in the air after we watched most of the meaningless games the cable company made available to us on the final Sunday of…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Happy New Year! The holidays are but a memory for another year, the dead of winter has begun to reach out and is scheduled to really start slapping us around this weekend. So do yourself a favor: Get to the market early, load up on the toilet paper, bread and…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The NFL announced on Monday that it again lied on its oath to have a level playing field for all teams when it announced the schedule for this weekend’s Week 18 games. The Baltimore Ravens (11-5) and the Pittsburgh Steelers (10-6) are still in play for the AFC North title…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The Baltimore Orioles are currently aceless. Some would say clueless. Many others, gutless. Or, worse – forever cheap. I have my own theory, but in the case of one-year Orioles ace Corbin Burnes signing a 6-year, $210-million free-agent contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks, let’s just say the Orioles are aceless…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Here’s hoping your Christmas was merry and that you were able to watch many of the great Christmas movies that flood the airwaves from mid-November to December 26, unless they are Hallmark Christmas movies that seemingly air from mid-October to the first pitch of the baseball season. I didn’t see…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Earl Weaver used to call it negative positive reinforcement and, in this case, it worked again. Understand, it’s not a toy, so you have to pick your spots in using it. So, naturally, when I pulled the trigger on it last week, I knew the Baltimore Ravens would beat the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It’s the biggest game of the season for the Baltimore Ravens. A shot at first place is on the line for them and a chance to clinch the AFC North is riding for the Pittsburgh Steelers. It will be a 4:30 game in front of the home folks, and before…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Ty Johnson? Every “best game yet” he plays for the Buffalo Bills makes me laugh, and it makes me laugh out loud. And I know I’m not alone. Everyone here supports this guy, because this guy always supports us. Yet I still hear in my mind, “He’ll never play a…
