MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports To begin, on Friday it was suggested here it would be the Chiefs and the Rams in the Super Bowl. It won’t be. However, the last thing said here on Friday was the gnawing suspicion was it would be the Bengals and the Rams in the Super Bowl, and…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports A few more semi-deep thoughts for the weekend … TERPS TURNAROUND? Maryland’s 70-59 win at Rutgers on Tuesday gave the Terps their first two-game Big Ten winning streak of the season, following their home win over No. 17 Illinois last Friday. Granted, it’s a modest accomplishment, but given what…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports If not Barry Bonds, how David Ortiz? If David Ortiz, why not Roger Clemens and Curt Schilling? Frankly, I understand why the needed 75 percent of the Baseball Writers Association of America voters would not vote for Bonds, Clemens or Schilling. Not many people care for any of them…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Look, I’ve never tried to convince anybody I’m not cynical about #NFLTheTVShow and, particularly, its sweeps period, also known as the playoffs. Since I was in the fourth grade – I’m in the 57th grade now – I have believed it is a television show and, particularly after this…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Stuck in the dead of what seems to be a real winter for a change (I much prefer our fake winters) and with just three games left in the #NFLTheTVShow season, it won’t be long before we’ll be getting our annual dry-skin itch for baseball. Well, we’re likely going…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports So we’re less than two weeks away from Groundhog Day, which, of course, is always a big thrill. Not at all, actually. I didn’t even like the movie. However, around here it will be a rather somber Groundhog Day as, apparently, Western Maryland Murray, the Cumberland groundhog who, as…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Thus, the Ben Roethlisberger era has apparently come to an end, although no official announcement has yet been made. And just like that, 18 seasons of sustained excellence on the field for the Pittsburgh Steelers is over. Kaput. Finito. Because even if Big Ben changes his mind – as…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports We missed most of the month of December here in this space because, frankly, I’m very deep and very wealthy (as the great Bill Fitch once said, “I’m independently wealthy. I have enough money to last me for the rest of my life – provided, of course, I die…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports The ballpark that changed ballparks forever is in the process of changing. Call it ballpark mid-life crisis, as the work at Oriole Park at Camden Yards has already begun on the eve of its 30th birthday. (Or call it making nice when it is necessary to make nice when…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Now it’s really time for #NFLTheTVShow to kick in. It’s time for what the suits in this TV business call the sweeps period. You’re likely more familiar with what most of us folks in the normal-person world call it and that, of course, would be the playoffs. The sweeps period…
