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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Buffalo Bills Clean House
The Buffalo Bills announced Tuesday afternoon that 14 coaches that spent the 2016 season with the team will not be back in 2017. Newly minted head coach Sean McDermott met with members of the coaching staff from the previous regime, and as it turns out, gave it a overhaul...
Will Brown Coaches Show
After falling to America East conference leader Vermont last week, the UAlbany men's basketball team bounced back with a dominant win on the road at Hartford this past weekend. The Great Danes have now won four of their last five games heading into a midweek revenge matchup with UMass Lowell...
Israel Gutierrez Joins Big Board Sports
For years sports fans have watched ESPN personality Israel Gutierrez on Around The Horn, Sports Reporters, and as a sideline reporter for the NBA on ESPN. The Miami native and former Miami Herald writer has established himself as one of the premier voices in all of sports media...
Joe King Joins Big Board Sports
Before Matt Patricia was winning Super Bowl's as the defensive coordinator of the New England Patriots, before ever meeting Bill Belichick, Matt Patricia was playing football for Joe King at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Patricia was an offensive lineman that started for two and half years...
James Allen Joins Big Board Sports
It's a huge night in Section 2 high school boys basketball. Arguably the two best match ups of the year in both class AA and A. On the AA side it's the reigning suburban champion Shenendehowa Plainsmen hosting the Colonie Raiders, who have championship aspirations themselves...
College Soccer Showcase Coming To Capital Region
This April high school girls that are looking for exposure to take their soccer game to the college level will have an opportunity to showcase their talents in front of those same coaches from the next level. The Cap City College Showcase is the first annual all-turf college showcase located in the capital of New York State, Albany...
Albany Devils Leaving Albany After This Season
The Albany Devils are ending a 7-year run in the Capital Region and are packing their things and moving to Binghamton. The New Jersey Devils AHL affiliate replaced the Albany River Rats who were here for 17 years prior to the arrival of the Devils...
Dion Lewis’ Mother Linda Joins Big Board Sports
Capital Region native, Dion Lewis, has a chance to achieve immortality with the New England Patriots next Sunday as he and his teammates are 60 minutes away from a Super Bowl title. The former Albany High School and Albany Academy standout has made the Pats offense more dynamic since returning from injury in November, and maybe no better example came in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs vs
Jimmy Patsos Coaches Show
Jimmy Patsos, head men's basketball coach at Siena College, joined Big Board Sports in his normal Wednesday Coaches Show slot. This week Patsos joined us in studio to talk about his Saints team turning things around in MAAC play and the huge match up that looms this Friday with conference rival Iona...
Chad Brown Joins Big Board Sports
The Capital Region's own, Chad Brown, has risen to the pinnacle of horse racing. The trainer from Mechanicville is coming off the most successful year of his career, highlighted by winning his first Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer...
Jimmer Dropped 50
Want to hear something not very surprising? Jimmer Fredette dropped 50 points this past weekend for the Shanghai Sharks in the Chinese basketball Association. Granted, the Sharks lost the game to Sichuan, but do we care? Not really. Jimmer still leads the CBA in scoring with nearly 37 points per game, and putting a 50-burger up is only going to foster his already god-like status in China...
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Will Brown Coaches Show
It was just about a week ago that fans of UAlbany basketball were beginning to worry. The Danes had lost three in a row to begin their conference season 0-3 with a trip to a red hot UMBC trip looming. Since then the Danes have rattled off three in a row against UMBC, Binghamton, and Maine by an average margin of victory of 21 points...