MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It’s set. We’re ready to go for this year’s NCAA men’s basketball Final Four. Aren’t you excited? On Saturday, it will be Villanova vs. Kansas and (you knew this was going to happen, particularly this year) North Carolina vs. Duke in the national semifinals. Look, I’m a sucker for the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports As we established and waxed nostalgic over yesterday, the big league baseball season is now less than two weeks away, which is pretty cool (see yesterday’s entry). We had a lot of fun yesterday, didn’t we? Well, can’t say we’re going to have fun today. It’s time to get down…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Well, it’s now baseball season, I suppose, given the owners’ vindictive 99-day lockout has been over and spring training has been under way for a couple of weeks and they’re finally playing spring training games in Florida and in Arizona. It’s always a good thing when baseball is in the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Beginning with the private jet into College Park and cheerleaders and a pep band at the airport, to a grand tour of Xfinity Center and the University of Maryland campus for the entire family, Kevin Willard’s first day on the job culminated with an introductory press conference at his new…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports After 12 years, 225 victories, six NCAA Tournaments and two Big East titles at Seton Hall, Kevin Willard will see how it plays in the Big Ten and the DMV as he was announced on Monday morning to be the ninth men’s basketball coach in University of Maryland history. “We…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports March Madness began in earnest through the wee moments of St. Patrick’s Day this morning with, perhaps fittingly, the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame’s thrilling double-overtime win over Rutgers as the 2022 NCAA Basketball Tournament resumes full throttle at noon today. The beginning of this tournament also marks the 20th…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Even at this late date – bracket deadline day — I don’t know that I’ll be filling out a bracket this year for the NCAA March Madness that is now under way. Other than just wanting anybody but Duke to win the championship, I have no strong feelings on the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports How about that Mikey Allen, eh? Short of actually winning the ACIT championship (and oh, by the way, Bishop Walsh nearly did), that’s about as good as it gets. Allen’s play, his confidence and cool, and, yes, his game-winners at the buzzer on Friday against Bishop McNamara and Saturday against…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The 60th Alhambra Catholic Invitational Tournament tips off today, 4 p.m., at Frostburg State University. The following column was posted on our site on Friday, March 13, 2020, the day after the 60th ACIT was postponed. For the first time … nearly 1,000,000 deaths ago – in the United States…
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…
