MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Last we spoke of the Baltimore Ravens here, we opined that Coach John Harbaugh deserved a ton of credit – whether we always agree with his analytics-based in-game calls or not – because, despite losing his team’s top three running backs to injury before the season even started, and…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports On the night the University of Maryland honored the late, great Len Bias, the Maryland Terrapins once more failed to rise to the occasion in delivering an ugly 62-58 loss to Virginia Tech at Xfinity Center in front of a loud, enthusiastic crowd of just under 16,000 dressed in…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports While watching #NFLTheTVShow last week at a local public house, a highlight was shown of the streaking Indianapolis Colts hammering the suddenly faltering Buffalo Bills and one of the older gentlemen seated at the bar (not me) began to spew unprintable unpleasantries about the Colts (okay, it was me).…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports In the summer of 1981, I met a shy, gangly youngster with Bambi eyes who loved to draw and, had he not died on June 19, 1986, would have been the greatest basketball player of all time. To this day, the world knows that young man to have been…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports With nine games down and three to go, it is clear the University of Maryland football team is nothing if not consistent; which is to say, that is not meant as a compliment. The 5-4 Terps are much improved; far more talented and skilled than they have been in…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports First of all, in The Wonder Years, it was Johnny U. and Brooks. Then it was Frank, Jim Palmer and Lenny Moore. Then it was Boog and Tom Matte. You have to understand, in The Day, the Baltimore Orioles and the Baltimore Colts players were here in Cumberland a…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports I spent the weekend in College Park for University of Maryland homecoming. Because of work, it had been years since I had attended homecoming at Maryland. For the same reason, it had been years since I missed homecoming in Cumberland. I’m sorry I missed Fort Hill-Allegany this year, particularly…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports I’m so old I remember when they only started talking about moving the Allegany-Fort Hill football game from Thanksgiving day to the week following the ninth regular-season game. Something about these new-fangled state football playoffs they were talking about starting … and I say new-fangled with great sarcasm since…
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…
