MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The Baltimore Orioles needed starting pitching and just moments under Tuesday’s MLB trade deadline they got it, acquiring Jack Flaherty from the St. Louis Cardinals for minor league infielder Cesár Prieto and pitchers Drew Rom and Zack Showalter. Whether or not it will be enough to provide the club with…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Through the turmoil and the calamity of the Summer of Huggs and with the future of football coach Neal Brown being the constant elephant in the room, one might suspect the West Virginia University athletic department would be gasping for air these days, when in truth, the Mountaineers find…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The Baltimore Orioles are playing .604 baseball and are in first place in the American League East by 1.5 games, three in the loss column, but, yikes! The sky is falling and the season is doomed because they lost two in a row in Philadelphia to the Phillies. You’ve heard…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports If you looked at the American League standings Wednesday morning, you saw all five teams in the AL East with a winning record, with the last-place Boston Red Sox having a better record (.525 winning percentage) than the AL Central-leading Minnesota Twins (.524). And the Twins had to win…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The NFL Tennessee Titans have unveiled their throwback uniform for the coming season and they’re throwing all the way back to their time in Houston when they were the Houston Oilers. You remember, the baby blue jersey that Earl Campbell, Dan Pastorini and Warren Moon wore back in the day…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports These are hands down the best days to be a Washington Commanders fan because there had previously never been a best day to be a Commanders fan until Thursday when NFL owners unanimously approved the sale of the team to the Josh Harris ownership group that includes Magic Johnson.…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports As Washington Commanders fans celebrate their first full day of independence from the 24-year nightmare that was former owner Daniel Snyder, Baltimore Orioles fans can only look down the BW Parkway with envy, as the ownership of Peter Angelos, now incapacitated by serious illness, and his family continues to haunt…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports On Thursday, Dan Snyder will finally be gone. Or, so they say. Without getting into the particulars of what a miserable human being he has given us every reason to believe he is, the reason he was finally shown the door by his #NFLTheTVShow brothers (fellow billionaire owners) is…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Once the All-Star break comes and goes, a baseball fan’s fancy turns to thoughts of the trading deadline, which is Tuesday, Aug. 1. Here in our little corner of the world, we have three teams that will have three different approaches to the trade deadline, the surging Baltimore Orioles, the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports It’s so hot … Even though we’re not in Nevada, Arizona or New Mexico (well, one of you are), it’s so hot. Oh, and this just in: It’s going to get hotter. Personally, I like it hot — not quite this hot, mind you; but I don’t like it…
