MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Considering the injuries that have swarmed them and considering they had losing months in July and August, the Baltimore Orioles are in pretty good shape today when you look at the American League standings. With 21 games to go in the regular season, the Birds open play tonight against Tampa…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports When last seen, the Baltimore Ravens were busy punching the Kansas City Chiefs’ ticket to the Super Bowl. You remember it well – the AFC Championship Game played in Baltimore when the Ravens hand-delivered a 17-10 victory to the eventual world champion Chiefs. The Chiefs did nothing spectacular that evening,…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Maryland opened its football season Saturday in dominating fashion, thrashing Connecticut, 50-7, in front of an announced (paid) crowd of 35,421. The 50 points was the most the Terps have scored against an FBS team in a season-opener since they scored 51 in a 2017 win at Texas. Quarterback Billy…
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…
