MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The Baltimore Ravens’ 30-23 win over the Washington Commanders on Sunday went just about the way we felt it would go, not to mention Las Vegas, who said Ravens by 7 with an over of 51.5. No, nothing to see here, right? The game was played on a beautiful…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Growing up in Cumberland in the 1960s, nearly everyone here was a Baltimore Colts fan. There were Washington Redskins fans, too, and one or two Pittsburgh Steelers fans (though, truthfully, not many more), but when the Colts played on Sunday, Cumberland was a ghost town. Either you went to…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The Washington Commanders have won four games in a row for the first time in 16 years and sit in first place in the NFC East, and just about everyone who wears burgundy and gold on Sundays has noticed. There were 59,030 roaring fans in Northwest Stadium last Sunday,…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Baltimore sports fans needed some good news, and on Sunday they got some. But they sure had to work for it. Having to overcome a late second-quarter comedy of errors, led by their head coach John Harbaugh, when they nearly wrote their own demise, the Baltimore Ravens turned the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The death of Pete Rose is the latest, the saddest and final chapter in the life and legacy of Major League Baseball’s hit king and holder of countless records and deserved accolades. Of course, with Pete Rose, even in death, you just never know. News of the 83-year-old Rose’s…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports From 1969 to 1973, the Baltimore Orioles won the first 10 American League playoffs games they ever played. Since 2014, the Baltimore Orioles have lost the last 10 American League playoffs games they’ve played. That’s fine. No need to panic. The Orioles, who were swept at home in two…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Head coach Mike Locksley admitted that Maryland’s 42-28 loss at Indiana on Saturday was “a frustrating game,” and then said something he’s been heard to say quite a bit over the last three seasons – “It’s just one game.” Actually, it’s just two games now, as the home loss…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Enjoy the Helene-delayed doubleheader between the New York Mets and the Atlanta Braves today, because once it’s over, another baseball regular season will be over. The playoffs begin on Tuesday, and for the better part of the next month the postseason will provide us with far different theater. And…
— Tom Hanks character, Sleepless in Seattle MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It was as sad as I knew it would be and I cried as much as I knew I would. And I wasn’t alone. I am a 65-year-old man, the last living member of my immediate family. I’m retired from one job…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It happened later than it was supposed to happen but, given the circumstances, that it happened at all is the important thing and it will go into the books as quite the accomplishment. There is still much to be done by the end of the week, but the weight of…
