Sports – Magic 100.5 | The Best Variety of Music | Cumberland, MD
- It’s spring training, so that’s a good start February 13, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Pitchers and catchers reported yesterday, with workouts starting today and full workouts beginning early next week; and while that doesn’t make it baseball season, baseball has returned even though spring training, particularly if you aren’t attending, is the longest Christmas Eve in the world. Then again, Christmas Eve is pretty…cheyenne
- There are no accidents February 11, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports So … quite a game, eh? Yikes! Nobody outside of Philadelphia saw that coming. Not necessarily the winning team, but the severity of the beating the Eagles put on the Kansas City Chiefs. The final score of 40-22 just didn’t cut it for someone who hadn’t watched the game and…cheyenne
- Someone knows, but it sure ain’t us February 7, 2025MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports You get the feeling that someone knows who’s going to win the big game on Sunday, but it sure isn’t us, which, of course, is the point. Gotta keep the gambling partners happy, you know? Honestly, you have to figure Kansas City will win, but hope, unless you’re from Kansas…cheyenne
- Terps return to their Super Sunday roots February 5, 2025MIKE 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…cheyenne
- Are there still Super Bowl parties? February 3, 2025MIKE 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…cheyenne
- When buttercup toughens up January 31, 2025MIKE 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…cheyenne
- STORYLINE: FORT HILL FOOTBALL FORFEITS GAMES DUE TO USE OF AN INELIGIBLE PLAYER January 29, 2025PART 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…cheyenne
- This isn’t the first, but it seems like the worst January 28, 2025MIKE 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,…cheyenne
- A Philadelphia story; another D.C. tale January 24, 2025MIKE 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…cheyenne
- Is it ‘protect all QBs,’ or just that one? January 23, 2025MIKE 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…cheyenne