MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports When Charles O. Finley announced in 1968 he was moving the Kansas City Athletics to Oakland, Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri, from the floor of the U.S. Senate, blasted the maverick A’s owner, who in just eight years as owner of the team had threatened to move it to Louisville,…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The only thing worse than Sunday Night Baseball in general is your favorite team playing on Sunday Night Baseball. Because then you have to watch it on ESPN. ESPN used to be the network baseball standard (Fox easily is now), beginning with Baseball Tonight every night; and it used to…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Just a few games over the halfway mark of the Major League Baseball regular season, let’s take a look at the Baltimore Orioles, Pittsburgh Pirates and Washington Nationals. Truthfully, all three teams are having good seasons in the context of what’s been expected of them and by what’s happened to…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Maryland and Georgetown will finally play each other again. In basketball. Men’s basketball. The schools announced Tuesday in separate (naturally) news releases that they had committed to a four-game series that will alternate each season between Xfinity Center and Capital One Arena. Maryland will host during the 2025-26 and 2027-28…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports On a busy sports Sunday it wasn’t lost that yet another WNBA game between the Chicago Sky and the Indiana Fever more than held its own against Stanley Cup hockey, Major League and College World Series baseball, Scottie Sheffer’s sixth PGA win of the year, as well as the racing…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports These New York Yankees – and the these is important to note as to not indict the New York Yankees before these Yankees became the Yankees – remind me of a certain presidential candidate in that most things they complain about and most of the things they accuse other teams…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Willie Mays was the joy of baseball and easily may have been the greatest player who ever lived. It’s nonsensical to use numbers to try to describe Willie Mays, though he is the only one to have the numbers he has in countless categories in baseball history. Just to see…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Big, big three-game series in Yankee Stadium beginning tonight, as the Baltimore Orioles take on the New York Yankees for the second time this season with plenty on the line, yet with close to nothing at all on the line as well. At least not yet. It’s reminiscent of the…
MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Patrick J. O’Rourke, who died unexpectedly at his Lancaster, Ohio home Sunday morning at the age of 74, may have been the most in-touch person I have ever known. He was in touch with God, with his loving family, his legions of friends and with the communities he loved the…
She can use the rest anyway? MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Caitlin Clark will not be selected for this summer’s United States Olympic women’s basketball team. Egads! Of course, all things Caitlin Clark, on and off the court, has become egads, and that’s fine; that’s good. Egads comes with interest, and Clark has brought plenty…
