Allegany Communications Sports w/ Mike Burke

MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports At no time have I watched three straight Colorado University football games as I have now done, including when our friend Steve Trimble was on the coaching staff. Truth is, Colorado football games have rarely been as available in the East as they are now, and we all understand […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports­­ Late Friday night, a lot of Baltimore Orioles fans, particularly trolls on social media, were ready to open a vein … and to take somebody with them. I felt like I was watching AMC on a Sunday night before the WGA strike. Bleh! Late Sunday afternoon, those same Orioles fans, […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Apparently, New York Jets quarterback Zach Wilson was hit in the head by a thrown water bottle as he left the field Monday night after replacing the injured Aaron Rodgers and helping the Jets beat the Buffalo Bills in overtime, which prompted his mother to take to social media […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports­­ Thankfully for New York sports fans there was one of the most exciting and entertaining U.S. Opens in recent history to keep them awake. Not much else sports-wise, though, has gone well for the City that Never Sleeps, beginning in late March when the Mets’ lights-out closer Edwin Diaz injured […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports The Baltimore Ravens opened their season with a 25-9 win over the Houston Texans in front of a loud and boisterous sellout crowd at M&T Bank Stadium. The Orioles were in Boston and in the process of losing their three-game series-finale to the Red Sox (hey, can’t win ‘em […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports­­ The Baltimore Orioles are 88-51 with 23 games to go and stand in first place of the American League East. For the Orioles fan, life is good, but it sure ain’t easy. This winning thing is everything it’s cracked up to be and, in Baltimore, it has a chance to […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports Maryland and West Virginia … Well, the Terps won their 18th consecutive home-opener on Saturday, beating Towson, 38-6, while the Mountaineers fell to Penn State, 38-15, in front of over 100,000 fans and a national television audience. The Terps’ defense looked pretty good against the Tigers as it should […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports­­ College football began in earnest Labor Day weekend with Week 1 of the 2023 season (Two weeks ago when games were played and the season actually began was referred to as Week 0 in case you were wondering or cared). So, naturally, the big news of the weekend hit the […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Radio Corporation Sports How about Thursday’s epic five-setter between Americans Michael Mmoh and John Isner, marking Isner’s emotional farewell to tennis? How about the coming of age and emergence of College Park’s Frances Tiafoe? Or how about Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina beating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia in three sets and the tension that […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports­­ In the time I began attending the Alhambra Catholic Invitational Tournament as an 11-year-old kid through the 2019 ACIT, the final one I covered for the Cumberland Times-News, two things stand out as the most impactful storylines of tournament history: The dominance of the DeMatha Catholic Stags, who won a […]