For Terps, appealing possibilities

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…

That’s baseball: Zip it or don’t bother

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…

Ravens a team with a very bad habit

“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;…

It’s October and I don’t feel so good

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…

For the Ravens, points well taken

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Well, what do you know? John Harbaugh took the free points on Sunday night – 9 of them to be exact – and for the first time since last November, the Baltimore Ravens walked off their home field with a victory, 19-17 over the Cincinnati Bengals to take over first…

Even more things … three to be exact

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It’s been too long since we brought all three teams from our 2-Hour-Drive Conference (2HDC) together, but since the baseball season is now over, this seems to be the most appropriate time to do it again. The Baltimore Orioles, as has been well chronicled here, had that season. They took…

And another thing … or two

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports I was glad to see the New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge finally hit his home run, I guess. I was just glad he didn’t hit it last week against the Baltimore Orioles. Don’t get me wrong, entering the three-game series last weekend at Yankee Stadium, I didn’t care if he…

Baseball is every day; baseball is forever

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Today is the final day of the baseball season. Sure, the playoffs will begin sometime this week, I suppose, and for the better part of the next month, they will provide us with some different kind of theater. But a certain melancholy surrounds many of us when the 162-game season…

Just knock the battery off his shoulder

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Well, Robert Conrad is back on the Baltimore Ravens sideline and up to his familiar old tricks again. Go ahead, knock the battery off his shoulder. I dare you. Take free points with a Justin Tucker 19-yard field goal and take the lead into the final minutes at home against…

Nearing MLB version of revisionist history

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports If Lamar Jackson’s betting on himself is working out pretty well so far, then Aaron Judge’s wager on himself is going absolutely boffo. Like Jackson, Judge turned down an enormous amount of money from his team, the New York Yankees, believing he could produce a season that would earn him…