MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The Houston Astros are world champions, having won an exciting six-game World Series over the Philadelphia Phillies, and there are a lot of baseball fans out there who are not happy about it. I concur that penalties handed down to the Astros for the cheating scandal merely constituted a don’t-do-it-again…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports So, here it is, another Fort Hill-Allegany football week to keep folks chirping, talking, buzzing and to get them to Friday night, since there aren’t many of those left at this point on the calendar. Fort Hill-Allegany; Allegany-Fort Hill. My rule of thumb as a sportswriter and sports editor of…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Wednesday morning the Washington Commanders issued a press release to announce that Dan and Tanya Snyder had hired Bank of America to “consider potential transactions.” Maybe if you’re a baseball fan caught up in the drama of this fantastic World Series we have going, you saw “potential transactions” and thought…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It was great to see Baltimore Orioles third baseman Ramon Urias selected as the 2022 American League Rawlings Gold Glove winner at third base. Urias, who was selected off waivers from the St. Louis Cardinals by the Orioles in February of 2020 and was one of the most versatile players…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Baltimore Ravens General Manager Eric DeCosta has done it again, Monday pulling the trigger on a blockbuster deal prior to the trade deadline and landing his team a big catch. Two-time All-Pro inside linebacker Roquan Smith comes to Baltimore in exchange for second- and fifth-round draft picks as well as…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Homecoming hangover: The day Cumberland, Maryland becomes a ghost town. No, really … The Sunday after the Allegany-Fort Hill Homecoming football game is the annual barometer of the quality of and the emotional investment that this town deemed and/or made in the big game that was played the day before.…
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…
