MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports “They know things that even we don’t know.” — The great Bill Zapf Thing is, the first time I met Bill Zapf, I made up my mind right there I could never allow myself to like him. Let’s just say I had not yet adapted to his way of devil’s…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The importance of Maryland football becoming bowl eligible for the second year in a row cannot be overstated. Depending, of course, on how the final four regular-season games go – at Wisconsin and Penn State, with the final two home against Ohio State and Rutgers – it is unclear what…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It was a mixed bag over the weekend for our 2-Hour-Drive Conference (2HDC), #NFLTheTVShow version, as the Baltimore Ravens finally held on to a second-half 10-point lead to beat the Cleveland Browns, 23-20, the Washington Commanders beat the Green Bay Packers, 23-20, before the Pittsburgh Steelers fell to the Miami…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports This should be one great World Series. The Philadelphia Phillies and the Houston Astros sounds like an old National League game, but the Astros have been making a meal out of the American League for four out of the past six seasons, including the New York Yankees once more, sweeping…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It is now officially Homecoming Week, although, in truth, it became Homecoming Week the moments Allegany’s win over Northern on Friday and Fort Hill’s win over New Oxford on Saturday were in the books. Saturday’s 12:30 p.m. match-up at Greenway will be the 100th in the history of the series,…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay could not have been less coy on Tuesday at the NFL owners meeting in New York when he almost volunteered his view on the possibility of Washington Commanders owner Daniel Snyder being forced by the other owners to sell the team. “I believe that there’s…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Tuesday was a good day for University of Maryland football as head coach Michael Locksley announced the right knee injury quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa suffered Saturday in the Terps’ 38-31 win at Indiana to be an aggravation of the sprained MCL he initially suffered in the Michigan game. As of Tuesday…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Everybody’s in a fluff, at least everybody who follows baseball in Los Angeles, Atlanta and (so far) half of New York is. The Dodgers, 111 wins in the regular season, the defending champion Braves and the Mets, both with 101 wins in the regular season and, until we find out…
“Stupid is as stupid does.” — Forrest Gump While we came to learn that Mr. Gump had earned the right to be judged by his actions and not by his appearance, the Baltimore Ravens, as they stand now, have, conversely, earned the right to be judged by both. This is one stupid football team, folks;…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports In the day, back when everything was better because, as I have come to learn, you just always say everything was better when you get older, there was the World Series. That was postseason baseball – one best of seven series between the champion of the American League and the…
