MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It’s the All-Star break, the much-needed All-Star break for some teams, with the Baltimore Orioles being at the top of the list of teams that can use a rest and a reset the most. The Orioles have had three days off in the last 70 days, facing most of the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports First of all, isn’t the Washington-Jefferson-Roosevelt-Lincoln Mount Rushmore good enough? Why must we be so pee-wee football, “Well, the big kids have it so it’s not fair for the little kids not to have it” as a society? The participation trophy mindset remains a pox on us all. That said,…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Depressing news out of Pittsburgh on Tuesday, though clearly not surprising since it involves Pirates owner Bob Nutting. According to John Perrotto of Pittsburgh Baseball Now, members of the Pirates front office remain “furious” over comments Nutting made in late June when he made it sound as though the Pirates…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports With the Fourth of July in the rearview mirror, baseball’s postseason races must be heating up and the All-Star break must be coming next week. Not only that, NFL training camps must be just around the corner. All true, and who could want more, right? The Baltimore Ravens, the best…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports When Charles O. Finley announced in 1968 he was moving the Kansas City Athletics to Oakland, Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri, from the floor of the U.S. Senate, blasted the maverick A’s owner, who in just eight years as owner of the team had threatened to move it to Louisville,…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The only thing worse than Sunday Night Baseball in general is your favorite team playing on Sunday Night Baseball. Because then you have to watch it on ESPN. ESPN used to be the network baseball standard (Fox easily is now), beginning with Baseball Tonight every night; and it used to…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Just a few games over the halfway mark of the Major League Baseball regular season, let’s take a look at the Baltimore Orioles, Pittsburgh Pirates and Washington Nationals. Truthfully, all three teams are having good seasons in the context of what’s been expected of them and by what’s happened to…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Maryland and Georgetown will finally play each other again. In basketball. Men’s basketball. The schools announced Tuesday in separate (naturally) news releases that they had committed to a four-game series that will alternate each season between Xfinity Center and Capital One Arena. Maryland will host during the 2025-26 and 2027-28…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports On a busy sports Sunday it wasn’t lost that yet another WNBA game between the Chicago Sky and the Indiana Fever more than held its own against Stanley Cup hockey, Major League and College World Series baseball, Scottie Sheffer’s sixth PGA win of the year, as well as the racing…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports These New York Yankees – and the these is important to note as to not indict the New York Yankees before these Yankees became the Yankees – remind me of a certain presidential candidate in that most things they complain about and most of the things they accuse other teams…
