MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It’s Homecoming Week and the decorations have gone up just as they did 50 years ago, and just as they had for the previous 38 years – just at a different time and for a far different circumstance. This Saturday’s football game at Greenway Avenue Stadium will be the 103rd…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports So the World Series starts tonight with the New York Yankees facing the Los Angeles Dodgers for the first time since 1981 when the Dodgers won the title in six games. That was the third meeting in the Fall Classic in five seasons between the teams, as the Yankees…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It was far from being a select Southern Cal team that Maryland beat in its Homecoming game Saturday night, but read the first part of that sentence again — Maryland beat Southern Cal. That the USC football team, even with famous band and famous fight song in tow, is…
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…
