MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It was 45-21 in the end, thanks to a Cooper Silber second-half field goal, which added an unintentional nice touch to the day for the Fort Hill Sentinels on Saturday, as they wrapped up their school’s 10th Maryland state football championship with their commanding victory over Mountain Ridge in Annapolis.…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports For the third year in a row, Fort Hill and Mountain Ridge will play for the Maryland 1A state championship Saturday, noon, at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis. Will it be No. 10 and the third title in a row for Fort Hill (12-0), or will the third time…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The good news after the Washington Commanders’ 45-10 loss to the Dallas Cowboys was that those who chose not to won’t be eating turkey for another year. The news wasn’t so good for Jack Del Rio (well, maybe it was), as he was fired by head coach Ron Rivera as…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports We won’t have Matt Canada to kick around anymore. Wanna bet? Canada’s going to be kicked around every week the Pittsburgh Steelers even get a sniff of 400 yards of offense in a game, as less than a week after firing him as offensive coordinator, the Canada-less Steelers did, in…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports No, in the end, Saturday was not all that it could have been for Maryland football, but those same Terps fans and boosters who always seem to feel they’re entitled to more, as they did during the Ralph Friedgen years, should not take for granted all that is right now…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Anyone who was here remembers where they were 60 years ago today when they heard the news that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. I certainly remember where I was, even though to that point I don’t recall remembering or comprehending much of anything, as I was just 4 years…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Did you see Ty Johnson shoot himself from a cannon early Sunday evening on national television? Yup, that was Ty giving the Buffalo Bills an enormous boost with his 28-yard touchdown from quarterback Josh Allen, and as it was pointed out on X, formerly Twitter, it was likely the first…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It was a significant but disappointing day in College Park on Saturday, and that it was significant for the eyes of a national television audience is no longer enough for Maryland football. The disappointment must be the story of this day for the sake of future days in College Park;…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Yes, it’s a sad day when a city loses its team. We know this because we’ve seen it happen close to home — Washington Senators to Minnesota, Washington Senators to Texas, Baltimore Bullets to Landover (now Washington) and Baltimore Colts to Indianapolis. We’ve also been on the receiving end of…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The day after the Baltimore Ravens’ latest absurd loss, this one 33-31 to the Cleveland Browns after leading by 14 points in the fourth quarter, head coach John Harbaugh once more discovered his inner Clouseau in deducing, “If we finished strong in every game we’d be undefeated.” In the immortal…
