MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Maryland men’s basketball ends its week off Thursday night at Ohio State, having entered the AP Top 25 at No. 18, and then return home on Sunday to host Rutgers at noon, which will mark the Terps’ 14th game on Super Bowl Sunday. Playing on national television on Super Bowl…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Does anybody still have Super Bowl parties around here? The last one I went to was two years ago in Myrtle Beach and it was attended by about 30 people from the Cumberland area at a place called Oscar’s. Prior to that, I couldn’t tell you the last Super Bowl…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports As Maryland head basketball coach Kevin Willard noted about 10 days ago, the Terps were forced to navigate a brutal January schedule filled with nationally-ranked opponents, inconsistent starting times and coast-to-coast travel. As Maryland athletic director Damon Evans publicly noted the following day, every team in the Big Ten must…
PART III – THE FINAL VERDICT Fort Hill football was forced to forfeit five wins this season for using an ineligible player. This is Part III of the story. In the very beginning of this process, Fort Hill head coach Zack Alkire requested that the BOE decision to enroll the West Virginia transfer be checked…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports So there you have it: The Kansas City Chiefs will play the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl, with the Chiefs looking to become the first team to win three Super Bowls in a row. That’s not the first to win three NFL championships in a row – Super Bowls,…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Though the rivalry has never been Redskins-Cowboys from the day, or Eagles-Giants or even 76ers-Celtics, Washington vs. Philadelphia has always been a hotly-contested and oftentimes heated sports rivalry between two cities going back to 1964 when the Eagles traded quarterback Sonny Jurgensen to the Redskins for quarterback Norm Snead and…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Either Mark Twain or Charles Dudley Warner, depending on who you talk to, was to have said, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” Kind of like NFL officiating, particularly when it comes to the Kansas City Chiefs and their quarterback Patrick Mahomes. Oh, we’ve been…
Just received this from Todd Helmick. Part 2 of the full story. PART II – THE FATHER’S SIDE OF THE STORY Fort Hill football was forced to forfeit five wins this season for using an ineligible player. This is Part II of the story. In this segment the father of the player ruled ineligible, at…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The season began with tight end Isaiah Likely being out of bounds by a toe on a two-point conversion try that would have tied the season-opener in Kansas City against the Chiefs. The season ended with tight end Mark Andrews dropping a pass going into the end zone on a…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports This time it was sealed with a fortuitous doink shot off the right upright that dropped over the crossbar with no time left for a 37-yard field goal by Zane Gonzalez, giving the Washington Commanders a 23-20 road victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And with it, the Commanders take…
