MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Terribly sad news came Tuesday night when we learned that longtime Washington, D.C. sportswriter Rick Snider died just two weeks after suffering a stroke. Rick Snider, a graduate of the University of Maryland, covered, reported on, wrote about and talked about virtually everything Washington, D.C. and the DMV since 1978,…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The daily and nightly excitement and drama are happening now, as Monday marked the beginning of tennis’ U.S. Open, for my money, the best and most enjoyable major sporting event there is. The U.S. Open has always been Casablanca and Rick’s place, because everybody comes to the U.S. Open –…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports How did we ever survive all those years when anywhere from 4,000 to 8,000 fans attended every high school football game at the stadium, always found a place to park and children were free to come and go as they pleased to have fun with their friends on a Friday…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Sunday must have been Mike Elias’ dream come true, as eight of the nine position players who started the Orioles’ 12-0 rout of the Houston Astros were drafted by the Orioles and have come all the way through their player development system – Adley Rutschman, Coby Mayo, Jackson Holliday, Gunnar…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Won’t lie. Amidst my ongoing battle to stave off old-guy fuddy-duddyism, seeing the headline, “WVSSAC has an NIL policy in place for the 2025-26 school year” in Thursday’s Cumberland Times-News not only caught my eye but prompted a “What the …” But then it didn’t take long for a younger…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Fall sports practice in West Virginia high schools has been underway for over a week. Maryland practice begins today, meaning the new school year is here, as the first day of fall sports practice has long marked the beginning of time in places such as ours. In the day, come…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports A lot of old friends returned to Baltimore for a nostalgic long weekend of sports, beginning with the Colts, the football team that held Baltimore’s heart for 31 years before breaking it that nightmarish March evening 41 years ago. The Ravens, entering their 30th season in Baltimore, hosted the Colts…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Even though he has a sore shoulder, Shedeur Sanders is scheduled to be the starting quarterback Friday night in the Cleveland Browns’ preseason opener against the New England Patriots, and good for him, Sanders will start, presumably, because Kenny Pickett and Dillon Gabriel are nursing hamstring injuries, and because 40-year-old…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports For those who prefer minor league baseball to Major League Baseball – there are a lot of folks who do – who have the Frederick Keys on their circuit along with the Altoona Curve, the West Virginia Black Bears and the Hagerstown Flying Boxcars, an upgrade is in store next…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports August, September and October are when bullpens matter more than at any other time of a baseball season. That is, if you have intentions of winning the World Series, which the New York Mets, San Diego Padres and Philadelphia Phillies clearly do, as they showed Thursday with trades that bolstered…
