MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The NFL hosts one of its most important and most-watched television productions tonight in Green Bay with the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft; or, as it is officially called, the Player Selection Meeting. As we established earlier this week, it’s a very good watch, whether you watch it…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports With the first installment of the annual Baltimore-Washington Parkway series (the parkway can take you directly from one ballpark to the other one unlike the separate beltways) set to begin tonight in Washington, it should be interesting as to how both teams and the series itself are accepted by the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It’s Mel Kiper Jr. time, I see; and I like Mel, but I don’t watch ESPN unless there is a game on of some sort, but it’s always on in the public house I visit on occasion, thankfully with the sound turned down, and over the last three weeks I…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Yesterday, 78 years after he broke baseball’s color barrier, Major League Baseball again remembered Jackie Robinson, having formally established April 15 as Jackie Robinson Day in 2004. In 1997, on the 50th anniversary of Robinson’s first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers, MLB celebrated him by retiring his number 42 throughout…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The Baltimore Orioles don’t hit, they don’t pitch and they don’t play defense very well. Other than that, it looks good. Through 13 games, the Orioles have scored 55 runs, an average of more than four a game, but that’s deceiving. Thirty-seven of those runs have come in four of…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The Pittsburgh Pirates are a community treasure in Pittsburgh and in Western Pennsylvania, and have been for nearly 140 years. For 18 years, the Pittsburgh Pirates of owner Bob Nutting have operated with an indifference and a lack of perception and sensitivity in all matters of the community’s treasured sentiments.…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The Duke Blue Devils led their NCAA semifinal game with Houston by 14 points with 8:03 left in the game. They led by 9 with 2:06 left, and with 1:26 left they were given a 92.7% chance to win the game by ESPN. They led by 6 points with 34…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports West Virginia and Maryland turned to the state of Texas for their new men’s basketball coaches, the Mountaineers hiring Ross Hodge of the University of North Texas and the Terps hiring Buzz Williams of Texas A&M. We don’t know much about the 44-year-old Hodge, but WVU athletic director Wren Baker…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports We here in Maryland are used to people leaving us in the middle of the night, and Kevin Willard became the latest, though hardly the greatest, having met with Villanova on Saturday and officially informing the University of Maryland around midnight that he was leaving as the head basketball coach,…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports In all likelihood they will be the final games of the season for the fourth-seeded Maryland men’s and women’s basketball teams when the men take on top-seeded Florida on Thursday and the women take on top-seeded and defending national champion South Carolina on Friday. And, oh, yeah, also Kevin Willard’s…
