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…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The Baltimore Ravens so have the Pittsburgh Steelers in their head (not to mention the Kansas City Chiefs). Why else would a group of veterans who have rarely beaten the Steelers as Ravens themselves tell first-year Ravens players, “You’re not a Raven until you beat the Steelers?” When it was…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Money doesn’t grow on trees. It grows on empty seats at SECU Stadium when they’re not empty, which makes the latest “Locksley must go!” outrage from Maryland football fans worth taking with a grain of salt. Don’t misunderstand, those who are occupying the seats each Saturday in SECU, and those…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The West Virginia Secondary Schools Athletic Commission, better known as the WVSSAC or, even better, the SSAC, has become a mini-series. And among the so many immortal words of the late great Spencer, West Virginia native, Charles E. Lattimer, “It’s a (goshdarn) mystery.” Through over 35 years as a sportswriter…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Mike Tomlin is a very smart man, despite what some Pittsburgh Steelers fans might tell you on any given day, which I’ve never understood, but that’s not why we’re here today. Late Sunday afternoon after his team’s 28-27 win over the Washington Commanders at Northwest Stadium in Landover, the Steelers…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports So, who framed Sam Sentinel? The answer to that would be no one. The Fort Hill Sentinels unknowingly had an ineligible player on the roster and have forfeited the five wins the player played in this season. So then, who anonymously blew the whistle on Fort Hill the day before…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It’s always sad (depressing, actually) once the final out of the final game of the baseball season is in the books, even when it sets off a deserved World Series celebration. For even when our team wins it all, while we are justifiably thrilled and delighted, it doesn’t take long…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Fresh off a 31-26 victory over Arizona and after being named Big 12 Coach of the Week, West Virginia University head football coach Neal Brown fired his defensive coordinator Jordan Lesley, who had been a member of Brown’s coaching staff at Troy and at WVU for a decade. It is…
