MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Over the Memorial Day weekend, the Baltimore Orioles debuted their City Connect uniforms, which are intended to pay tribute to the city’s many diverse neighborhoods. Based on the purpose of City Connect, I liked them, and even though the Orioles wore them just twice (Friday and Saturday), there are those…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports It was a big Memorial Day weekend for University of Maryland baseball, as the Terps blanked Iowa, 4-0, on Sunday to win the Big Ten Tournament championship to bookend with its regular-season title, and then on Monday were announced as a No. 2 seed in the Winston-Salem Regional of…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports These are exciting times for the Washington Commanders – new owner on the way, Super Bowl champion offensive coordinator in place and, best of all, the previous owner will soon be … the previous owner. Did we mention the Washington Commanders will soon have a new owner? We did,…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports With the elimination of the Los Angeles Lakers from the NBA playoffs, LeBron James, at some point in his career having been known as King James, LBJ, Chosen One, Bron-Bron, The Little Emperor, The Akron Hammer, L-Train and Benjamin Buckets, hinted that he just might retire after 19 seasons, or…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Cumberland’s Ty Johnson took to Instagram over the weekend and opened up about how the New York Jets released him after telling him to get a surgery he says he didn’t want. Johnson tore his pectoral muscle while doing a workout away from the team and was released shortly thereafter…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports If you are a Baltimore Orioles fan, tomorrow is a holiday. So take the day off. Don’t bother to go to work; your boss will understand. It wouldn’t be appropriate to practice or support the principles of capitalism, anyway. Not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a day to observe greatness, splendor…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It was a good series for the Baltimore Orioles, winning two out of three; but it was also a great ending to the series for the Pittsburgh Pirates, who won one out of three. On Sunday, the Pirates needed a win, having lost 11 of the previous 12 games, and…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports If there are two things we know about Cumberland, Maryland they are 1.) There are two routes to any destination and the shortcut takes just as long as the long way does, and 2.) We’re two hours from everything, including Baltimore and Pittsburgh. That will come into play for…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Had an English Lit professor at West Virginia University said it, he would have been on the street faster than Dickens could have mentioned the worst of times. Had WVU President E. Gordon Gee said it, he’d have been booking another one-way trip to Columbus, where he said in 2013,…
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,…
