MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Impossible. Oriole Park at Camden Yards will be 30 years old? How on earth has this been allowed to happen? It seems as though it were only yesterday when we allowed the place to swoop us into its vast, yet intimate emerald and red brick setting. To this day, though, Oriole…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports There is the adage, “You can never go home again,” which has been adopted from the title of a 1940 Thomas Wolfe novel, “You Can’t Go Home Again.” The saying is meant to infer how nostalgia causes us to view the past in overly-positive tones, and how we tend…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Sports Corporation Due to circumstances beyond anybody’s control (this circumstance having been the Super Bowl being played on Sunday), Baseball Monday 3 did not take place on Monday. Thus, we’ll semi do it today if that’s alright. So now that football season is finally over, which is normally a good thing,…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Here is my annual Super Bowl preview column – not a prediction column – even though, for varying circumstances, I haven’t had one for a few years. Don’t worry about it, though, it’s like riding a bicycle. Or so I’ve been told. Okay, we already had a preview Super…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Do they still have Super Bowl parties out there, even when there are no regional teams involved in the big game? The Super Bowl is Sunday – Super Bowl 56, in fact: Cincinnati Bengals at Los Angeles Rams. Yes, the game is being played on the Rams’ home field.…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Looking in on the Winter Olympics as we speak (on Monday night). It’s really the first time I’ve tried to watch this cycle of Games, because, truthfully, I’ve had the same interest in watching the Olympics this time around as I had to watch last Sunday’s Pro Bowl –…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports To the casual baseball fan, or even to the so-called hardcore baseball fan under the age of 40, Boog Powell is the big guy on Eutaw Street at the foot of the B&O Warehouse beyond right field of Oriole Park at Camden Yards who signs autographs at his very…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports For being the so-called dead week prior to Super Bowl week, those scamps at #NFLTheTVShow sure are keeping things alive in the old news cycle, even though these greedy and entitled mopes can’t be too pleased with the life they’ve been living in this current news cycle. The week…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Tom Brady is the G.O.A.T. No. There’s no such thing. Not in the NFL. First thing, for those of you who don’t follow such things (and congratulations if you don’t), G.O.A.T. stands for Greatest of All Time. Second thing, Tom Brady retired on Tuesday at age 44, having quarterbacked…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports So Washington Football Team announces its new team name on Wednesday, which is Groundhog Day, which led some of us (led by me) to believe the new name would be something like Red Hogs or Warthogs, because, given the clever ways of Football Team’s diminutive owner Daniel Snyder, we…
