MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Just a few games over the halfway mark of the Major League Baseball regular season, let’s take a look at the Baltimore Orioles, Pittsburgh Pirates and Washington Nationals. Truthfully, all three teams are having good seasons in the context of what’s been expected of them and by what’s happened to…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Maryland and Georgetown will finally play each other again. In basketball. Men’s basketball. The schools announced Tuesday in separate (naturally) news releases that they had committed to a four-game series that will alternate each season between Xfinity Center and Capital One Arena. Maryland will host during the 2025-26 and 2027-28…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports On a busy sports Sunday it wasn’t lost that yet another WNBA game between the Chicago Sky and the Indiana Fever more than held its own against Stanley Cup hockey, Major League and College World Series baseball, Scottie Sheffer’s sixth PGA win of the year, as well as the racing…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports These New York Yankees – and the these is important to note as to not indict the New York Yankees before these Yankees became the Yankees – remind me of a certain presidential candidate in that most things they complain about and most of the things they accuse other teams…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Willie Mays was the joy of baseball and easily may have been the greatest player who ever lived. It’s nonsensical to use numbers to try to describe Willie Mays, though he is the only one to have the numbers he has in countless categories in baseball history. Just to see…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Big, big three-game series in Yankee Stadium beginning tonight, as the Baltimore Orioles take on the New York Yankees for the second time this season with plenty on the line, yet with close to nothing at all on the line as well. At least not yet. It’s reminiscent of the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Patrick J. O’Rourke, who died unexpectedly at his Lancaster, Ohio home Sunday morning at the age of 74, may have been the most in-touch person I have ever known. He was in touch with God, with his loving family, his legions of friends and with the communities he loved the…
She can use the rest anyway? MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Caitlin Clark will not be selected for this summer’s United States Olympic women’s basketball team. Egads! Of course, all things Caitlin Clark, on and off the court, has become egads, and that’s fine; that’s good. Egads comes with interest, and Clark has brought plenty…
Suddenly, the Negro Leagues count …Suddenly? MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports No sport cherishes its history and its statistics more than baseball does, and on Wednesday baseball gained a whole lot new of both as Major League Baseball officially implemented an integrated statistics database to include the statistics of the 2,300 players who played in the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The irony was not lost on Friday afternoon; for under the brilliant sun at Wrigley Field, the brilliance of the sun was running second to the brilliance of the young pitcher on the mound. Yet it wasn’t the brilliance of a Chicago Cubs pitcher that had Wrigley buzzing this time.…
