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…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Denny Knippenberg was my first insurance agent. I was in my early 20s and was trying to buy my first car but in those times, a car and the necessary car insurance weren’t easy things to secure for a young man who had never owned anything of value in his…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It was as poor of a regular-season loss as we’ve seen in the John Harbaugh era, the Baltimore Ravens’ 26-23 loss to the visiting Las Vegas Raiders, beginning with the poor play of the offensive line, the defense’s inability to prevent wide receiver Davante Adams from single-handedly beating them (the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports These are cranky days in Baltimore. The Ravens are 0-2 (more on them later in the week) and the Orioles have stopped hitting and, in turn, they have stopped winning. With just 12 games to play, the Orioles’ offense continues to be lost in the abyss, as Adley Rutschman’s eighth-inning,…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports During the same week the schools will face off in football for the second year in a row, Maryland and Virginia jointly announced on Wednesday that the schools have renewed the longest-played series in Maryland’s basketball history with the former ACC rIvals beginning a four-game series in the 2025-26 season…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It doesn’t seem possible that it’s been seven years since Dunbar and Fort Hill have played each other in football. That’s a seven-year itch, though, that will be scratched on Friday, 5 p.m., when the two meet at Morgan State University. It will be the first of two meetings in…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Week 1 of the NFL season is in the books and here in 2 Hours from Everywhere, it was a mixed bag with only one of the three home teams managing to win. The Baltimore Ravens, of course, opened the season Thursday in Kansas City, losing to the Chiefs, 27-20,…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Maryland had a chance to put it away early and to put it away late, but did neither as the Terps sent away the partisans of the crowd of 34.819 grumbling with a deflating 27-24 loss to Michigan State Saturday at SECU Stadium. Maryland had opportunities beginning to end despite…
