MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Thankfully for New York sports fans there was one of the most exciting and entertaining U.S. Opens in recent history to keep them awake. Not much else sports-wise, though, has gone well for the City that Never Sleeps, beginning in late March when the Mets’ lights-out closer Edwin Diaz injured…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports The Baltimore Ravens opened their season with a 25-9 win over the Houston Texans in front of a loud and boisterous sellout crowd at M&T Bank Stadium. The Orioles were in Boston and in the process of losing their three-game series-finale to the Red Sox (hey, can’t win ‘em…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The Baltimore Orioles are 88-51 with 23 games to go and stand in first place of the American League East. For the Orioles fan, life is good, but it sure ain’t easy. This winning thing is everything it’s cracked up to be and, in Baltimore, it has a chance to…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Maryland and West Virginia … Well, the Terps won their 18th consecutive home-opener on Saturday, beating Towson, 38-6, while the Mountaineers fell to Penn State, 38-15, in front of over 100,000 fans and a national television audience. The Terps’ defense looked pretty good against the Tigers as it should…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports College football began in earnest Labor Day weekend with Week 1 of the 2023 season (Two weeks ago when games were played and the season actually began was referred to as Week 0 in case you were wondering or cared). So, naturally, the big news of the weekend hit the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports How about Thursday’s epic five-setter between Americans Michael Mmoh and John Isner, marking Isner’s emotional farewell to tennis? How about the coming of age and emergence of College Park’s Frances Tiafoe? Or how about Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina beating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia in three sets and the tension that…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports In the time I began attending the Alhambra Catholic Invitational Tournament as an 11-year-old kid through the 2019 ACIT, the final one I covered for the Cumberland Times-News, two things stand out as the most impactful storylines of tournament history: The dominance of the DeMatha Catholic Stags, who won a…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Not surprisingly, there has been a lot of feedback from around the country concerning the “indefinite hiatus” of the Alhambra Catholic Invitational Tournament after a historic run of 63 years. The annual March weekend meant a great deal to a great many people all over this country and in…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports I was told and I understood it could happen, and happen soon, but that there was a chance some adjustments could be made. Either way, the possibilities were not promising and nothing would come as a surprise. Yet when I woke up on Wednesday and checked the newsfeed first thing…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports John Angelos needs to go away – far, far away, without the Baltimore Orioles on his person. The son of Orioles owner Peter Angelos, who stewards the baseball organization now that his father is quite ill, simply cannot stand it that the Orioles team itself is again the talk…
