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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Reports: Jets To Retain Todd Bowles
It is being reported by the New York Daily News and a host of other outlets that New York Jets owner Woody Johnson will bring back second year head coach Todd Bowles for a third season. After a 10-win season in 2015 the Jets fell flat in 2016 and are a dismal 4-11 heading into the NFL's final regular season weekend...
Jimmy Patsos Coaches Show
The head coach of Siena men's basketball program, Jimmy Patsos, joined Big Board Sports on Wednesday in his usual spot to discuss the latest on-goings of the Saints program. Currently, Siena is 4-8 on the season and is coming off a 84-64 loss on the road to Hofstra...
Chris Berman Joins Big Board Sports
Chris Berman is a sportscasting legend that has been a cornerstone at ESPN since the late 1970's. In addition to being the host of the flagship show 'Sunday NFL Countdown', Berman has anchored golfs U.S. Open, the Stanley Cup Finals, and called Major League Baseball...
Section 2 Basketball Teams Rallying Together For Coaches vs Cancer
The Coaches vs Cancer movement has trickled down from the college basketball to the high school level as Section 2 teams are rallying together to raise cancer awareness and raise funds to fight the deadly disease. Longtime Shaker boys basketball head coach, Jeff Holmes, is heading up a committee that is aiming for 100% participation among Section 2 basketball teams...
Paul Schwartz Joins Big Board Sports
The New York Giants are officially in the playoffs for the first time since 2011. Now what? Although the Giants are locked into their playoff positioning there is still a lot left that needs to be determined. Who will Big Blue match up with in the wild card round...
Tim Graham Joins Big Board Sports
Tim Graham covers the Buffalo Bills for the Buffalo News and is a lead voice in Western New York when it comes to the Bills. Last week Graham wrote an article saying that it's time for Bills owners Terry and Kim Pegula to "fumigate the entire football department" on One Bills Drive...
James Allen Joins Big Board Sports
Each week we get a litmus test of Section 2 boys basketball as 'Big Game' James Allen joins Big Board Sports. The Times Union reporter has been covering 518 hoops since the late 1980's and continues to have his fingers on the pulse of all the area's best teams and players...
Jimmy Patsos Coaches Show
The head men's basketball coach of the Siena Saints, Jimmy Patsos, stopped by Big Board Sports in his usual Wednesday slot to give us the latest news and notes on his basketballl team. In this week's coaches show Jimmy looked back at the Saints victory over Patriot league opponent, Bucknell, and looks ahead to the road contest Thursday night at Hofstra...
ESPN’s New 30 for 30 To Feature Pro Wrestling Legend
As ESPN continues to tie themselves as closely as possible to World Wrestling Entertainment, it's only right that the World Wide Leader features the wrestling legend, Ric Flair, in a 30 for 30 documentary. In the last year alone ESPN has tied in a WWE link on their homepage, featured a wrestler per week on SportsCenter, and broadcast live from Wrestlemania...
As The Heel Turns Podcast
It's the very first episode of 'As The Heel Turns' podcast! If you love talking and debating wrestling from both old school and today than this is the podcast for you. The format of the show is unique in that each episode will be a list-based conversation featuring the top-5 of any particular category...
Will Brown Joins Big Board Sports
Will Brown is the head men's basketball coach at the University at Albany and appears on Big Board Sports morning show every Monday at 11:00AM during the winter months of hoops season. The Great Danes are coming off a blowout win at home against Saint Francis of Brooklyn and have now won three of their last four contests and currently (as of 12/19/16) have a 7-5 record...
Dunk Of The Week
Look out below! It's the inaugural 1045 'The Team' Dunk of the Week! Every week moving forward for the rest of the NBA basketball season 1045 'The Team' will bring you the most high flying, disrespectful, slam dunk of the previous seven days...