Cumberland Times-News Mike Burke - Sports

Somewhere over the rainbow starts here

2012-01-31T23:24:46-05:00

During a break in the program Sunday night, former Pittsburgh Pirates slugger Bob Robertson sat at a table backstage sharing some stories from the day when he played some of the finest defensive first base and hit some of the longest home runs in the major leagues in helping the Bucs to the 1971 world championship.

Ronnie Cage’s life was deeds, not words

2012-01-27T21:54:36-05:00

It was right they observed a moment of silence at the Allegany-Fort Hill basketball game. And I hope they observed a moment of silence at all of the games this week — boys and girls, men’s and women’s — in all the area gyms — Maryland and West Virginia.
That’s because Ronnie Cage worked them all. And before that he played them all.

No plus-one would have come out of this Orange

2012-01-07T23:09:12-05:00

Having never been what one would call a big West Virginia fan, I nevertheless find myself entertained by Mountaineers head football coach Dana Holgorsen whenever I take in a WVU game.

Daumie No. 51

2011-11-22T23:33:25-05:00

It’s difficult and it’s unsettling — something we’re not ready to come to terms with, really — when we lose Larger than Life.

At Fort Hill, they’re all in it together

2011-11-12T23:47:14-05:00

They still decorate their homes and neighborhoods with red and white streamers and signs. They hang football helmets with jersey numbers on telephone poles and trees, and they leave them there until it’s pretty much time to decorate for Christmas.

Let’s keep lips zipped and just go about our business

2011-10-29T23:27:04-04:00

The worst part about snow, other than shoveling it, of course, is being surrounded by all the moaning and groaning about how much it’s going to snow before a flake even touches earth and then having to put up with the same moaning and groaning once it begins to snow.

There are no queens on the sports page

2011-10-15T23:49:47-04:00

Some high school football seasons it is easier to tell when big things have happened and when big things are ahead by some of the phone calls and letters we receive here in the Times-News sports department. There just seems to be more of a chippiness some years than in others, and this year has been one of those years.

K.C. latest Laffey Tour over America destination

2011-10-12T23:51:50-04:00

As of now it appears Aaron Laffey will be wearing royal blue again — Kansas City Royals blue, that is — as the Royals acquired the former Allegany High School left-hander from the New York Yankees in a waivers claim on Tuesday.

In America ...

2011-09-10T23:23:00-04:00

Of course you remember where you were when you heard.
What you really remember is how you felt when you realized it wasn’t just a bad pilot or an airplane malfunction when you saw the second plane go into the second tower.
Until the day we are no longer here, the realization that we had just been attacked — somehow, by somebody — will stay with us and move us.

Keyser, Fort Hill clash tonight

2011-09-08T23:44:23-04:00

Fort Hill and Keyser, both coming off lopsided season-opening victories, will square off at Greenway Avenue Stadium, while Frankfort entertains Grafton in the Falcons’ home opener in two of seven high school football games featuring nine area teams taking place tonight.