Zach Bye has been covering sports in and around New York's Capital Region since 2011. From being a voice of the University at Albany's Football, basketball, and Lacrosse programs on radio and television, to giving his two cents on sports talk radio, Zach is an active member of the 518 sports media. As a Scotia native and a College of Saint Rose graduate, Zach is known away from the microphone for enjoying time with his family and friends, playing basketball, watching old-school wrestling and intaking all types of talk radio.
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UAlbany To Host 4th Annual Cystic Fibrosis Game Sunday
This Sunday at 2:00pm The University at Albany basketball program will host their 4th annual Coaches Cure Cystic Fibrosis game when the Great Danes take on the Maine Black Bears. The point of this event is to raise awareness in the fight against Cystic Fibrosis, which is a disease that effects the digestive and respiratory systems and is the most common genetic disease in the United States...
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Goldberg Throws Guy Into Water At Golf Tournament
I'm not sure what took the PGA so long to release this video, but this past week the reputable golf organizers uploaded the sequence from 2002 onto their Facebook page of Goldberg tossing some poor soul 10 feet into a water hazard. The sheer display of power is honestly pretty scary...
James Allen Joins Big Board Sports
Every Friday as we head into a busy night of Section 2 boys high school basketball we bring 'Big Game' James Allen onto Big Board Sports morning to show to give us some insight on what match up and players to watch. This week Allen previews the headliners, Saratoga at Bethlehem, and Shaker at Colonie...
Tim Kurkjian Joins Big Board Sports
Arguably the most recognized and respected voice in sports media when it comes to covering America's Favorite Pastime, Tim Kurkjian, stopped by Big Board Sports the morning after the votes were cast and the new inductees to the baseball Hall of Fame were announced...
MAAC Issues Statement On Siena/Rider Altercation
The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference has issued a statement in regards to the melee that occurred between Siena and Rider in the closing minutes of Tuesday nights game at the Times Union Center:
"After a thorough review of the video and the game officials' reports, the following course of action has been determined by MAAC Commissioner Rich Ensor:
Rider's Anthony Durham and Siena's Marquis
Jimmy Patsos Coaches Show
Siena men's basketball team picked up their fourth win in a row on Tuesday night with a 78-68 win over Rider at the Times Union Center. But the win for the Saints and a career night from senior Lavon Long (29pts/12reb) wasn't the story. Rather, a late game scuffle between the two teams stole the headlines...
‘As The Heel Turns’ Top-5 Entrances
The 'As the Heel Turns' team is back with a fresh episode! The pro wrestling podcast that counts down a different top-5 list every episode has dropped their most recent list, one that is sure to spark debate. Listen in as Goz, Vinny, Zach Bye, and The Tig Man argue the five best pro wrestling entrances of all time...
Dunk of the Week!
It's that time again for the 1045 'The Team' Dunk of the Week! This weeks rim rocking winner is from Miami Heat guard Tyler Johnson. Johnson takes off in transition and punches it on the head of Lakers guard Lou Williams with the left hand. Johnson has slowly but surely carving a niche for himself in the NBA after going undrafted out of Fresno State in 2014...
Kevin Smith Joins Big Board Sports
Kevin Smith is a Capital Region native from East Greenbush who now plays division 1 baseball at the University of Maryland. The star short stop who played his high school baseball at Columbia has had a phenomenal first two seasons as a Terp and heads into his junior campaign with plenty of promise...
Jimmer Fredette Drops 37 Points for Shanghai
Glens Falls native and former BYU star Jimmer Fredette continues to put up monster numbers in the Chinese Basketball Association for the Shanghai Sharks.
The former Naismith Player of the Year is averaging a CBA best 38 points per game, and on Wednesday he put up 37 on the Jilin Northeast Tigers...
Kevin Huerter Joins Big Board Sports
Fans of Section 2 basketball have known Kevin Huerter's name for years now, but the rest of the country is slowly but surely figuring out why he was so highly touted coming out of high school. Huerter is starting as a freshman at Maryland for a Terps team that is 15-2 and on the brink of being ranked in the top-25...
Rick Bennett Joins Big Board Sports
The Union college men's hockey team has continued it's winning ways this season as the Dutchman are off and running in what is shaping up to be another banner year. The team is currently ranked #11 in the latest national top-25 poll and stands with a 14-5-2 record...