MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It’s been clear from the beginning the Maryland basketball Terrapins have a shooting and scoring problem — they don’t do either very well — and this problem was magnified Tuesday against the No. 1 team in the country, the Purdue Boilermakers, who, unlike last year when they were rocked by…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports #NFLTheTVShow schedule makers/scriptwriters thought it through from the beginning when they slated the match-ups for Week 18, the final regular-season week of the 2023 season. Everywhere you look you find games that pit long-time rivals with one another, with most of the games likely to have a big hand in…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It is beyond the eye test at this point given the way the Baltimore Ravens just flattened the Miami Dolphins on Sunday — 56-19 — as to where the current best team in professional football resides. It resides in Bawlmer, hon — it’s ’dem Ravens. Consider, the Dolphins team the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Head coach Michael Locksley said this would be the season Maryland football would be ready to compete for championships. That, of course, didn’t happen, but Maryland football competed, and competed well with the teams that would play for and win those championships — namely Michigan and Ohio State. The 2023…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Washington Commanders head coach Ron Rivera announced on Wednesday that Sam Howell has been benched and that Jacoby Brissett will start Sunday’s game against the San Francisco 49ers. That is the official news. The obvious news came on Sunday during the Commanders’ 30-28 loss to the New York Jets —…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports When you’re not a Dallas Cowboys fan, whenever you have to root for the Cowboys, they lose, as they did on Sunday when Baltimore Ravens fans were rooting for them to beat the Miami Dolphins, which, of course, they did not do. The Dolphins’ 22-20 win over Dallas, coupled with…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports With their national-television 33-19 road win Monday over the San Francisco 49ers, the Baltimore Ravens won their fifth game in a row to stand atop the AFC with a 12-3 record. The three losses — Indianapolis, Pittsburgh and Cleveland — came by a combined 12 points and came after the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Baltimore Orioles Chairman and CEO John Angelos originally suggested a new long-term lease for the club at Oriole Park at Camden Yards could come as “an All-Star break gift” in July for Baltimore fans, which, of course, didn’t happen. Five months later, though, after five years of negotiations and unknown…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The Baltimore Ravens’ 23-7 win at Jacksonville Sunday night was one of grit. In obvious and subtle ways, it was one of the most impressive wins of a season that has already produced 11 wins in 14 games. The Baltimore defense, which is one of the best in football, again…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Speaking of Christmas movies, as to the raging debate of whether or not “Die Hard” is a Christmas movie, I am of the opinion that it is a Christmas movie even though, while it all centers around an office Christmas party, the plot is clearly not about Christmas. That’s right.…
