Allegany Communications Sports w/ Mike Burke

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Fort Hill’s 16-14 win over Mountain Ridge Saturday night in Annapolis made the Sentinels the Maryland 1A state football champion for the second year in a row and for the seventh time since 2013. That’s nine state football championships in all for the school, a remarkable feat in itself, particularly […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports You know, it’s been since 2014 when the University of Maryland left the Atlantic Coast Conference to keep its arse out of potential Chairman Yow-induced bankruptcy by becoming a member of the Big Ten Conference — eight going on nine years, though in some instances it seems like more. Don’t […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Wren Baker is the new athletic director of West Virginia University and the reason he is coming to Morgantown to begin with will also be in place for at least another year, as WVU announced on Wednesday that embattled head football coach Neal Brown will return for the 2023 season. […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Sitting in a public house last Sunday not long after church, while watching the Baltimore Ravens gag against sorry Jacksonville, we heard a big cheer and applause from a fellow at the other end of the bar watching another game. Fort Hill High’s Ty Johnson had just scored on a […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports It was a mixed bag for the fans here in 2 Hours from Everywhere and for two of the three teams in our 2-Hour Drive Conference (2HDC), #NFLTheTVShow version, that played on Sunday. The Washington Commanders continued to steal the show with another gritty victory, 19-13, over the Atlanta Falcons in […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports The bottom line is Maryland football finished the regular season 7-5, a record any Terps supporter would have gladly taken at the beginning of this season, meaning, despite all of our travails along the way, it has been a very good season. It is the first seven-win regular season at […]

Turkey Day is best as a home game MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Happy Thanksgiving to one and all. We have so much to be thankful for. Those of us who are truly blessed have a big day planned with the family today, right? Waiting for that big bird to be served up so it […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports “So, Garrett,” I say to the bartender on Monday, “did you watch the World Cup today?” “Some of it,” Garrett said. “I had it on. Did we end up winning?” “No,” I say. “We tied.” “You mean a draw.” “Okay, a draw,” I say. After Garrett proceeded to unleash an […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports One week after a potential ray of light rose from the play of redshirt-sophomore quarterback Garrett Greene and a glimmer of hope existed with two games remaining after West Virginia’s first Big 12 win over Oklahoma, it was pretty much over before last Saturday’s final home game of the season […]

MIKE BURKE Allegany Communications Sports Nobody is looking for a moral victory, but the truth is the Maryland football Terrapins went toe-to-toe with the best college football team in the country not named Georgia on Saturday afternoon before falling to No. 2 Ohio State, 43-30, at Maryland Stadium. If you saw the game you know […]