MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It is the most bittersweet day of the year, Labor Day, the holiday celebrated in the United States on the first Monday in September. Labor Day is a celebration of the American labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of workers. It constitutes a yearly national…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports For better or for worse, it all begins with leadership; it all begins at the top. Or, as someone once said, “A fish rots from the head down.” Of course, it goes both ways; it also thrives from the head down. Provided, of course, there is good leadership. Take for…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Barry Bonds and the Pittsburgh Pirates weren’t the only ones to stage a homecoming reunion over the weekend, as Nick Markakis, too, returned to his original big-league home to join Terry Crowley and the late Dick Bowie as the Class of 2024 of the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame Saturday…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Everybody hates Barry Bonds, right? Don’t tell that to anybody in Pittsburgh anymore, unless you’re looking for a busted lip, because on Saturday the prodigal son was welcomed back with open arms to his original home as a major-league baseball player, as Bonds and his former manager and longtime friend…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The Washington Commanders, formerly known as the Washington Redskins as well as the Washington Football Team (my personal favorite) have a long history of quarterbacks. The organization was long known for its quarterbacks, great quarterbacks, from 1937 through 1993 – Sammy Baugh, one of the greatest football players who ever…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It’s no time to panic because there’s no point to it. Hard as this would have been to believe a couple of months ago, the Baltimore Orioles and the New York Yankees are suddenly hearing footsteps, given how close they both have allowed the Minnesota Twins, the Kansas City Royals…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Yes, fall sports practice in the state of Maryland began yesterday, August 14th, while West Virginia high schools have been hard at work for over a week. For those of us who grew up during the Dark Ages, though, today is the day that remains the red-letter day, because, regardless…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Whether we watched them religiously or not, just knowing the Olympic Games were on seemingly 24/7 for the past two-and-a-half weeks provided a comfort – a respite from the stress that has enveloped us for the past eight years. Through the ongoing hate and political violence that prevail, the Games…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Thirty-six years later, the 1988 Baltimore Orioles have returned to the conversation, as the current-day Chicago White Sox have tied their modern-day American League record for most losses in a row at 21. The futility of the ‘88 Orioles remains even more noteworthy, as those O’s (a nickname that became…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The body language of both teams, the Baltimore Orioles and the Toronto Blue Jays – where they are going and where they have been – was evident Wednesday afternoon at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, one day after the Major League Baseball trade deadline had expired. The Orioles had a…
