Albany Area Sports

Were there any changes to the Travers or Whitney dates?

Four UAlbany Great Danes were honored by the America East on Thursday with postseason basketball awards.

We enter the final week of the Saratoga meet... wait what?! It's unreal to think how long we wait for this meet to come and how fast it flies by. Still plenty

What a weekend at the Spa as we watch Songbird suffer only her second career defeat, Practical Joke is a force around one turn, Lady Eli continues to

Every day throughout the meet, our horse racing insider Brian "The Closer" Mariano will give you his picks to help you win at the windows. The picks will be in order of preference and will include an early Pick 5 ticket, late pick 4 ticket and a best bet on the card! Follow him on twitter …

Another local team looks to bring some hardware back to the capital region. The Spring Renegades of Troy will represent the capital region in the 2017 Cal Ripken World Series.
The Renegades have had nothing short of an extraordinary season to this point...

For all of us who spend our days at the racetrack, we all have a group of people who frequent the track with us. The guy who has his head buried in the racing form and has all the angles, the guy who always bets the long shot, even the guy who's there to just drink all the adult beverages...

From the backyard of his home in Mechanicville to the winners circle at Pimlico, Chad Brown has remained humble. "Its a dream come true" said Brown after winning, "But more than me, its my staff. So many dedicated employees who work so hard particularly on this horse (Cloud Computing)…

Nobody in the Capital Region covers high school football like 'Big Game' James Allen of the Times Union. Allen stopped by Big Board Sports in his weekly Friday slot to serve up reaction to the class AA Super Bowl between Troy and Shaker from the night before, tell us how well he expects the Flying H…

We are a week away from the Breeders Cup and we are left with a lot of questions. Will Found run in the Classic? Has local trainer Chad Brown locked up the Eclipse award for Outstanding Trainer? Will Songbird keep her undefeated streak alive in the Distaff...

For those who bowl, a score of 890 is always a thought for us who shoot a 300 game and think we have a chance to hit such an impossible number. But for a local bowler it wasn't just a thought, it was history.
Liz Kuhlkin, a Rotterdam native and professional bowler on the Professional Women's Bowling …

We are 2 weeks away from the Breeders Cup and the talk around the track is heating up! How good will Runhappy be going around two turns? Will the Classic distance of a mile and a quarter be too much for Frosted? Paddock Pass host "The Closer" Brian Mariano caught up with TVG's Todd Schrupp…