MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Long Island Lutheran, ranked No. 25 in this week’s USA Today Sports Super 25, will be one of two nationally-ranked teams playing in this weekend’s Alhambra Catholic Invitational Tournament – company the likes of which host school Bishop Walsh knows all about keeping, as the 60th ACIT will finally tip…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It’s ACIT time. Again. Finally! Whew, did we miss you! Doing a little this, that and the other here today, before we hit the ACIT running, but we’ll just start today with this reminder … ACIT: Paul VI, the top team in the Washington, D.C. area, champions of the Washington…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Paul VI, the top team in the Washington, D.C. area, champions of the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference (WCAC) and the Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association (VISAA), as well as three teams from the top conference in the country, make their return to the 60th Alhambra Catholic Invitational Tournament March 10-12…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The top two seeds in the Baltimore Catholic League Tournament, which opens this evening, St. Frances Academy and Mount St. Joseph, will make their return to the 60th Alhambra Catholic Invitational Tournament March 10-12 at Bobcat Arena on the campus of Frostburg State University, as the ACIT itself returns for the first…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Had the great pleasure to attend the Maryland-Ohio State men’s basketball game Sunday at Xfinity Center to see the Terps’ 75-60 win over the No. 22 Buckeyes, Maryland’s third top-25 victory of the season. Maryland played what was likely its best game of the season, as the Buckeyes and their head…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Baseball has long been America’s National Pastime and, in spite of Major League Baseball owners, remains so despite what the Park Avenue mopes at #NFLTheTVShow would have us believe. Those guys are suits in a television production company, a gambling house, an investment firm and a hucksters’ house. It is…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports So, after two years of rightfully being canceled because of the pandemic, it looks as though we’re finally going to get us that 60th Alhambra Catholic Invitational Tournament after all, right? The greatest weekend of the year reconvenes Thursday, March 10 at Frostburg State University, but the entirety of the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports After two years of waiting, it’s finally time to get ready for the 60th Alhambra Catholic Invitational Tournament. After two years of COVID cancellations, the great tournament returns Thursday, March 10 at Frostburg State University and brings with it some of the finest high school basketball in two nations and…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications To give you an idea how crestfallen I was last week over #NFLTheTVShow coming to an end for another season, consider, I slept the entire second half of the Super Bowl, which explains why I had very few insights on the Angelenos’ great triumph in the latest edition of The Fall…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The most difficult part of being the age some of us finally find ourselves being is losing the people in our lives we have loved and cared about for all or most of our lives. Clearly this is meant to mean family, friends, neighbors and teachers throughout the course of…
