Sad to be afraid of your own shame MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports In 2018, the Biloxi, Mississippi Public Schools removed the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” from its eighth-grade curriculum while it was being taught after a mother complained to the superintendent that it made her son feel uncomfortable. As it turns out,…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It is true Lefty Driesell swiped Tom McMillen, then the No. 1-rated high school basketball player in America, from the clutches of Dean Smith to effectively launch what we’ve come to know as Maryland basketball for the past half-century; but since then, beginning with Moses Malone, who signed with Maryland,…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports The highly anticipated Hunter Dickinson announcement on Tuesday was, “I’m not sure yet.” So, there you have it. Although, it is expected the big announcement as to where he will continue his college basketball career will come today, as Dickinson said on The Roundball Podcast he wants to decide…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Anybody who was anybody in the sports world came to Cumberland for the Dapper Dan Awards Banquet. Major League Baseball and NFL MVPs were there; so were Cy Young Award winners, Heisman Trophy winners, including John Cappelletti the year he won it, some of the greatest managers and college football…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Okay, good for Lamar Jackson. Great for Lamar Jackson, and I mean that. I’m a Baltimore guy. I root for the Orioles. I root for the Ravens. I root for anything Baltimore – the former Bullets, the dead-to-me Colts, the old Skipjacks, Bays, USFL Stars and CFL Stallions, you name…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Outfielder Bryan Reynolds and the Pittsburgh Pirates have come to an agreement on an eight-year, $106.75 million contract that includes a club option and does not have an opt-out. See what can be accomplished when a team is winning and everybody is on the same page? The Pirates just offered…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Twenty-one year-old Baltimore Orioles rookie infielder Gunnar Henderson is like the weather – everyone complains about his hitting, but no one does anything about it. Which is why I figure the Orioles will do absolutely nothing about it themselves; at least not outwardly. Nor should they. At least for now.…
Legacy Oh, like a rock, the sun upon my skinLike a rock, hard against the windLike a rock, I see myself againLike a rockOh, like a rock — Bob Seger MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports The proof was in the pudding Sunday morning when 200 to 300 people were on hand for the naming…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Uh don’t look now, but the Pittsburgh Pirates are winning baseball games — quite a few of them, in fact; and on top of that, they expect they’ll be winning some more. Plenty more. They’re a fun team to watch. The Pirates completed a three-game sweep of the Colorado Rockies…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The University of Maryland seems to be pushing all of the right buttons top to bottom in its athletic department these days. The football team has won two straight bowl games, the soccer teams are traditionally strong nationally, wrestling made a gigantic jump on the national scale, while both basketball…
