MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It’s Super Bowl week in case you hadn’t noticed, and through each week leading up to our most obscene unofficial national holiday (more like the fall of the Roman Empire), the media is always scrambling to come up with something that has a new angle or twist of its own…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The Pro Bowl Games (not game – Games). Did you watch it (not them – it)? I saw it; I checked it out. Didn’t grab me. From the middle of last week to the end of the weekend, the Pro Bowl players seemed to be enjoying themselves a great deal,…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Former Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke said more than once that head coach Joe Gibbs was “the best bloody hire I’ve ever made.” Actually, the best hire Cooke ever made, at least as a sports team owner, was Bobby Beathard to be the Redskins’ general manager in 1978, because…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports I offered a snide aside here yesterday about Tom Brady never going away, clearly not knowing he would choose first thing the very same morning to announce he was going away. Again. He may actually stay retired this time, but I stand by the sentiment that he’ll never go away…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports So it’s the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 57, both 16-3 on the season and both the top seeds in their conferences, marking the first time top seeds will meet since 2017 when Philadelphia beat New England. The Eagles had little trouble advancing, rolling the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The perception is the Baltimore Orioles have not had a productive offseason following their surprising 2022 when they stayed in contention right up to the final week. And certainly, there hasn’t been a lot of glitz with the maneuvering of general manager Mike Elias this winter, yet when it comes…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Time and its passage can be unforgiving for a kid who grew up and older an avid sports fan. For in that time, so many meaningful and influential pieces of our growth begin to disappear piece by piece, one day at a time, with the disappearances coming more frequently than…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Truthfully, Scott Rolen did not ring in my mind as a Hall of Famer; he never has. Frankly, neither does Fred McGriff, with whom Rolen will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame this summer in Cooperstown. Rolen becomes the 18th third baseman voted into the Hall of…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Say this for the Maryland Terrapins during their first year under head coach Kevin Willard – they are what they are, and what you see on any given night is what you get. You’re just not quite sure what it is you’ll be seeing. Nobody in College Park, or at…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Well, it’s like this: Last week for #NFLTheTVShow’s Divisional Round (I call it the second round), I was 3-1 on winners and 2-2 playing the points, which can be viewed as respectable, but, frankly, I find the 2-2 on the points to be a complete and utter failure. As Dallas…
