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- When Irish eyes aren’t smiling December 9, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Notre Dame didn’t necessarily get hosed by the decision itself – that it would not be part of the 12-team College Football Playoffs. The Fighting Irish got hosed by the process. Yes, the process of the weekly ESPN Tuesday-night playoff rankings show did in old Notre Dame; maybe you’ve seen…cheyenne
- Be careful what you wish for December 5, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports So Mike Tomlin made it abundantly clear on Wednesday that he will not be the head coach at Penn State or at any other college. Ever. The Pittsburgh Steelers head coach didn’t seem too amused when the Penn State question was raised, actually, in a way to ask him if…cheyenne
- Fun hot stove season still ahead December 3, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Baltimore Orioles President of Baseball Operations Mike Elias promised he would be busy this offseason and a week before baseball’s winter meetings even begin, he has kept his word. Elias has hired manager Craig Albernaz and a new coaching staff, reacquired reliever Andrew Kittredge, signed free-agent outfielder Leody Taveras, traded…cheyenne
- Play calling that would rile Honest Abe December 1, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports In late 1862 during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln was so enraged by General George B. McClellan’s inactivity, despite superiority in numbers over the Confederate forces, that he wrote McClellan a letter consisting of a single sentence: “If you don’t want to use the army, I should like to…cheyenne
- Turkey Day Game? No, thanks November 26, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Tomorrow, of course, is Thanksgiving, which used to mean something else around here from 1936 through 1973, as the Allegany and Fort Hill football teams, with the exception of 1944-46, met once a season and that was on Thanksgiving in the annual Turkey Day Game. Since the Maryland Public Secondary…cheyenne
- Who knew? The Ravens are in first place November 24, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Kudos to the Baltimore Ravens. After gagging a couple of winnable games to start the season, after being nearly decimated by injuries, including to the meal ticket, quarterback Lamar Jackson, and after sitting at 1-5 and left for dead, they are now 6-5 and in first place of the incredibly…cheyenne
- Beware the ides of Arrieta, et al? November 20, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Whoa! The Baltimore Orioles came out swinging, making a rare November trade that registers “MAJOR” on the trade meter and triggers the potential for more major trades or acquisitions to come. Having traded 26-year-old starting pitcher Grayson Rodriguez to the Los Angeles Angels for 31-year-old slugging outfielder Taylor Ward, likely…cheyenne
- Another typical weekend in College Park November 17, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It wasn’t the best of times and the worst of times for Maryland athletics over the weekend, but it was somewhere in between. Thus, the life of Maryland. So typical. When Maryland brings sunshine, fate brings rain. When Maryland brings laughter, fate brings pain. So typical. So Maryland. Saturday afternoon…cheyenne
- It’s just too easy … and that’s the problem November 14, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The one and only Charles E. Lattimer gave me some stern wisdom when I was a young man that ended up being some of the best advice I ever received. This wisdom came as Coach Lattimer abruptly ended the poker lesson he had agreed to give me during the semester…cheyenne
- Kyle Hamilton again leads Ravens revival November 12, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports When last we left the Baltimore Ravens, they had just been stampeded by the Houston Texans, 44-10, were being booed off their home field and stood at 1-4 on their way to 1-5. That fifth loss would come to the Los Angeles Rams, also at home, but it was…cheyenne