MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Ran into the Frankfort Falcons line last Thursday night. No, seriously. We dine at the same restaurant and they were having a group dinner and I stopped by their table to wish them well, briefly interrupting their business meeting, Very gracious and poised young men, these guys were polite and…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Contrary to literary myth, Robert Frost did not write the line, “You can never go home again.” What he did write was, “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.” All of these years later, 17 to be precise, that suits…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports If it’s two weeks before Christmas then baseball’s Winter Meetings are underway; and so they currently are in Dallas, having started not with a bang, but with a sonic boom with the New York Mets’ signing of free-agent outfielder (if you want to call him that) Juan Soto to a…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It was a little more than a year ago Sunday as I was at the market buying produce for the week when an avid Fort Hill football fan struck up a conversation and with great concern asked, “How are they going to replace that line?” “They” being the Fort Hill…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The good news is Ravens fans won’t have to put themselves through hell this weekend – the Ravens don’t play. Sunday’s 24-19 home loss to the Philadelphia Eagles put Baltimore a game and a half back of the Pittsburgh Steelers again in the AFC North, and while the Ravens refused…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports If it’s not obvious by now, it never will be: Rob Manfred is a clear and present danger to the well-being of baseball. Of course, where have we heard something like this before? Prior to his becoming Commissioner of Baseball, when he was an attorney for MLB with unfortunate influence,…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The announcement came late Sunday afternoon, but the fate was all but determined long before late Saturday afternoon when West Virginia found itself hopelessly out of its final regular-season game at Texas Tech, a game the Mountaineers would lose, 52-15, to even their still-bowl eligible record to 6-6. Would a…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports For some of us it’s impossible to believe that it’s been 53 years since the famous Turkey Day Game between Allegany and Fort Hill was played on Thanksgiving, 1971, at what was then known as Fort Hill Stadium. Of course, it’s hard to believe the game was played at all.…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The two biggest takeaways from the Baltimore Ravens’ 30-23 win over the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday night: While John Harbaugh makes a lot of decisions Ravens fans don’t agree with (like going for 2 to extend the lead to 9 instead of 8 in the fourth quarter), when they…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Maryland’s 76-75 win over Villanova Sunday afternoon in Newark was a big deal on a couple of fronts. For beginners, the Terps (5-1), just six games into learning how to play together given the high turnover from last year, erased a 40-28 halftime deficit in the first 10 minutes of…
