Oh, yesterday came suddenly “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” — Ferris Bueller MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The state of West Virginia has one week in the books; Maryland gets things rolling this weekend and here we are again. It was…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Used to be a runner. Five times a week in the heyday. Not going to say I ever enjoyed doing it, but I always loved having done it. For those of you who run or jog (which is what I actually did), or who used to run or jog, you…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Man, did Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association ever knock it out of the park with the fifth MLB Little League Classic Sunday afternoon and evening in Williamsport, Pa. For the Baltimore Orioles, the game itself was cause enough for celebration as they beat the Boston…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The theme for the entire past weekend at Oriole Park at Camden Yards was Boog Powell on the occasion of his 81st birthday, which was Wednesday, Aug. 17, and Boog Powell Bobblehead Night to commemorate it on the following Saturday night. To the casual baseball fan, or even to the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Several years ago while on the bucket-list visit to Wrigley Field, a seemingly neutral fan told me what the difference was between Cubs fans on the North Side and White Sox fans on the South Side in the wonderful city of Chicago, a city that takes its baseball, and all…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Three-and-a-half weeks from now when the Baltimore Ravens visit the New York Jets somewhere in New Jersey for the season-opener, an old friend may well be there to greet them. Joe Flacco, the one-time Super Bowl Most Valuable Player, who led the Ravens to the title in 2012-13, then would…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The Maryland Stadium Authority wants to build a $70 million ballpark in Hagerstown so the city can gain another professional baseball team in 2024. The ballpark would be built on a parcel of land on Baltimore Street and the MSA has bought a laundromat, a Washington County government building and…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports High school fall sports practice has been underway here for area teams in Maryland and West Virginia for some time now, with West Virginia’s entire schedule beginning a week or so before Maryland’s. Monday, however, was August 15 and, seemingly from the beginning of time, without fail, that was the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports First of all, bravo! to the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association for collaborating on the permanent league-wide retirement of the jersey number 6 in honor of the late Bill Russell, 11-time league champion for the Boston Celtics, civil rights activist, mentor to NBA players until his final day,…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports For several years I have referred to the National Football League as #NFLTheTVShow, having recently added AndSportsBook to the hashtag. I have begun to reconsider that addition and will likely lose it and just stick with TheTVShow, because that is what the NFL is first and foremost. While it is…
