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- Just an old fashioned Terps song October 14, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports That Maryland is now safe to play as an underdog on the FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY cards is a hopeful sign, as the Terps have covered the spread the past two weeks against two very good Big Ten teams. There was a time not long ago when Maryland wasn’t even on…cheyenne
- Baseball lives on, even with analytics October 13, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports In the unfortunate ESPN vernacular that is, it was called an instant classic, and it was if you consider 15 gut-wrenching innings, 15 pitchers, 4 hours and 58 minutes of anxiety and 472 high-stress pitches to be instant. The decisive moment came on a 3-2 pitch with the bases loaded…cheyenne
- The manager is hired to be fired October 10, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports For the baseball fan whose team is not involved in the Major League postseason, watching the opening rounds of the playoffs – the wildcard series and the divisional series – is not unlike watching the first weekend of March Madness. There are games to get lost in everywhere, in seemingly…cheyenne
- Ravens beyond a mess; hovering over hopeless October 7, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The Baltimore Ravens were booed off the field by the Baltimore fans after Sunday’s 44-10 loss to the meh Houston Texans, making them 1-4 for the first time in 10 years. Put this up there with one of the most embarrassing losses in franchise history, let us count the ways.…cheyenne
- Terps deliver a crash course in Ravens 101 October 6, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Aside from losing my FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY football card on a push in the Miami-Florida State game, it wasn’t a bad weekend. It just would have been easier to have lost my AMUSEMENT on a blowout. Speaking of which, just as recent Maryland football sellouts, which we can count on…cheyenne
- For Orioles, it’s easy: Elias must do better October 1, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports As the rest of Baltimore was coming to grips with the in-progress Ravens disaster for the coming four months, Orioles president of baseball operations Mike Elias and interim manager Tony Mansolino laid to rest the just completed Orioles disaster of the previous six months, a lost season in the middle…cheyenne
- Like a friend who’s always there for you September 26, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports We went to the ballgame in Baltimore yesterday. Why? Why not? It’s baseball, stupid. It’s Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the best ballpark ever (after Memorial Stadium), and it’s going to be a lot different from here on out; so we wanted to check it out one last time as…cheyenne
- Ravens are uhmm … Still 14 games to go September 24, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports For the entire offseason we were told by the pundits (or, as the great Tom O’Rourke called them, “the wonks”) that the Baltimore Ravens were a favorite to be in the Super Bowl, if not the Super Bowl champion. The Ravens defense was said to be among the NFL elite,…cheyenne
- Not a big game? Definitely a big win September 22, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Maryland’s 27-10 win at Wisconsin on Saturday was huge, and the most important Maryland football win in some time. Granted, Wisconsin doesn’t appear to be the Wisconsin we’ve grown accustomed to seeing, and the fans at Camp Randall Stadium certainly took every opportunity to remind Badgers head coach Luke Fickell…cheyenne
- We know Robert Redford; he’s just like us September 19, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Robert Redford said, “The glory of art is that it can not only survive change, it can lead it.” Redford died on Wednesday at the age of 89. He was an actor, a director, a producer and the founder of the Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film Festival, as well…cheyenne