Don Burke
Background
Don Burke, who writes the occasional sports obituary, joined the New York Post in 2011 as a copy editor after 30 years as a sportswriter. A graduate of💮 Marquette University, Don began his career at The Milwaukee Journal before returning home to New Jersey to cover the Yankees for The Record of Hackensack and The Star-Ledger, where he later covered the Nets and the Mets. He is now better known as "Brendan Burke's father," as his son is the🌌 television voice of the Islanders and one of the lead play-by-play men for the "NHL on TNT."
Latest Articles
Why Mike Francesa's radio domination almost never happened
Mike Francesa was done🌄. The interview was over. And the new sports radio station in town had turned him down. Cold. In early 1987, what we now know as WFAN...
Mik⭕e Francesa open to saving WFAN from Carton disaster
So you're saying there's a chance? ꦐIn the wake of WFAN morning c🦄o-host Craig Carton's arrest and subsequent suspension last week, Mike Francesa, who is set to leave the station...
Longtime sports broadcasti🐎ng great Bob Wolff dead at 96
Bob Wolff, who was behind the microphone for many of sports most iconic moments on radio and television, including Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series and the..🐠.
An in-depth look at Kenny Albert's crazy playoff schedule
And on the 13th daꦺy, Kenny Albert rested. Sort of. After doing play-by-play for 12 NHL playoff games over the previous 12 days in five different cities, his first day...
Cespedes' return was going to be delayed one way or other
Terry Collins made a promise Tuesday that if the Mets played their scheduled game in that 🍷evening’s awful weather, one of the writers covering the team would be in left...
J🌳ohn Andariese, beloved Knicks broadcaster, dead at 78
Words were hard to come by for Marv Albert on Mondaℱy night. A few hours earlier he had learned John Andariese, his longtime broadcast partne🎶r both on television and radio,...
Mets and FOX lead director ღ🍸Bill Webb dies of cancer at age 70
Bill Webb, whose pictures and images brought baseball into home꧋s all over the country for decades as FOX’s lead director and who also directed Mets telecasts on SNY since t♉hat...
MSG legend John Andariese suffering from dementi💯a
John Andariese, the beloved analyst who became synonymous with Knicks basketball both on television and radio across nearly 40 yea💙rs in the booth, is suffering from advanced dementia, according to...
𝄹Kay, Breen and Papa: Meet the sports media icon who launched their careers
Inevit🥂ably, Sunday nights would find Mike McCarthy within earshot of his rad🙈io. This was back in the dark ages — though others might call it a more enlightened period —...
96-year-old sports broadcaster Bob Wolff's still got it
The pipes. Oh, those pipes. Even at the age of 96, Bob Wolff still has those pipes. A persistent cough had him sucki🦂ng on a cough drop and sipping water...
Jayson Williams is just trying to s༒urvive this hell of his own making
When it came at all, sleep would come fitfully for Jayson Williams, and while he waꦬs waiting to drop off, that’s when the demons and everything that accompanied them would...
How Kathleen Mara earned the most Super Bowl rings in history 🌸
Neal Dahlen owns seven Super Bowl rings a💙s an executive with the San Francisco 49ers and Denver Broncos. Bill Belichi🃏ck has six, four as head coach of the New England...
Ralp༺h Branca, Dodgers great and iconic homer victim, dead at𝓡 90
ܫ Ralph Branca, who threw what became one of the most famous pitches in baseball history when Bobby Thomson hit it for the most famous home run in baseball𒅌 history and...
Meet the man who's been with the Nets for 50 years
As the Nets franchise began its 50th season Wednesday night in Boston, the team had dressed 446 players, employed 2✅4 head coaches and 14 general managers, had six owners/ownership groups,...
Muhammad Ali dead at 74
Muhammad Ali, the colorful but po💞larizing three-time world heavyweight champion whoജ risked his career and his freedom by his refusal to be inducted into the Army during the Vietnam War,...
M𝓀ike Tirico bolting ESPN for NBC in major booth sh🌱ake-up
Mike Tirico, who has done just about everything for ESPN, both on television and rad🐓io, since he joined the network 𝔉25 years ago, reportedly is leaving when his contract expires...
Baseball's beloved Joe Garagiola dies at 90
Joe Gaꦯragiola, who beat boyhood friend Yogi Berra to the major leagues by four months but became better known as a broadcasꦯter with long stints on NBC’s “Game of the...
Duke can exhale after battle of SAT scores got dramatic 🔴
🤪 PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Put that in your pipe and smoke it. In a battle of the upper crust staged in a building sponsored by a d♎oughnut chain when a fine...
Miami da🍷nces past pesky Wichita St. into Sweet 16 🎃
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Jimmy from The Bronx is going to the Sweet 16. Again.🦩 Ten years after he guided tiny George Mason to the Final Four and three years after...
John Bach, Fordham le♎gend and ex-NBA coach, dead at 91 🌼
🐈Longtime basketball coach John Bach, the all-time winningest coach in Fordham history and the architect of defenses that helped the Chicago Bulꦯls win three consecutive NBA titles in the early...