MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports That is usually how the great Tom O’Rourke merrily opened his broadcasts on WCBC Radio for the annual Allegany-Fort Hill Homecoming football game. That and, after setting the scene and making the proper introductions of his partners in the booth, “Happy Homecoming, everybody.” Tom did not go to Allegany,…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Dick Sterne was named the Dapper Dan Club’s Man of the Year in 1992. He was the recipient of the prestigious Henrietta Schwarzenbach Civic Service Award in 2010 and was presented with the Dapper Dan Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. I used to like to tease Dick with each…
“You come at the king, you best not miss.” — Omar Little, West Baltimore MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Much of what I heard from area high school football fans last week – other than from fans of Fort Hill and Mountain Ridge – was, “Fort Hill’s going down. Mountain Ridge is putting them…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Here on a Sunday night watching the most recent ballyhooed and promoted television event in the history of the last time there was one: Tom Brady’s Return to New England! Whatever. At least Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth are doing it, so that’s good television. (By the way, why…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports There once was an unwritten agreement (the least binding kind of agreement, by the way) between state universities and their money-monster football programs, and their respective state high school athletic associations — Friday Night Lights was off limits to colleges and was strictly reserved for the high school kids…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports The last great star from Cumberland’s most famous and most important high school football game, the 1948 Turkey Day Game, is no longer with us. Wes Abrams, the great Allegany running back for the ’48 Campers, and one of the finest gentlemen who ever lived, passed away peacefully at…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Having completed the third installment of Ken Burns’ most recent four-part documentary, “Muhammad Ali: Bigger Than Boxing; Larger Than Life” on Public Broadcast Service (the fourth and final installment is Wednesday, 8 p.m.), I find myself in complete awe – absolute awe. All over again. From the time I…
Allegany Radio Corporation Sports The beautiful thing about Fred McMillan was, is and always will be his insistence upon seeing the beautiful thing in you. For those of you who didn’t know Fred McMillan – though I can’t imagine anybody around here not knowing Fred McMillan – his start into moving onward and upward came…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports The Baltimore Ravens were pretty beat up before their first game, a gruesome 33-27 overtime loss to the Las Vegas Raiders, was even played on Monday night, given the 11 players who were on the injured reserve, including the top three running backs on the roster, as well as…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Sitting in the kitchen here drinking beer, eating Ledo pizza and watching the first #NFLTheTVShow presentation for the coming season. Ah, the glamorous life of the sports writer … I haven’t believed the NFL since I was in the fourth grade when the New York Jets won Super Bowl…
