Bud & The Manchild

Monday - Friday: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Bud Poliquin

Bud has been a columnist for The Post-Standard since 1984 and has been named among the nation’s Top 10 columnists in seven different years by the Associated Press Sports Editors group. Always colorful and opinionated, he has traveled both the country and the world, covering sporting events in 44 of the 50 states (including Alaska and Hawaii) and in 10 countries. He has staffed 26 Final Fours, 14 Super Bowls, seven World Series and two Olympiads in addition to other major news and sporting events. Bud has interviewed renowned sports figures from A (Ali, Muhammad) to very nearly Z (Yaztrzemski, Carl). Prior to coming to Syracuse, he was a member of the San Diego Tribune’s reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the crash of a PSA jetliner. He has authored two books ("Purely Poliquin’’ and "Tales From the Syracuse Hardwood’) and writes a blog that appears virtually every day on syracuse.com. His expert views on Syracuse University football and basketball are staples of The Post-Standard's daily coverage.

Jim Lerch

“The Manchild” has been influential on the Syracuse sports scene for more than 15 years. He’s a huge proponent of High School Sports in CNY having hosted Channel 9‘s "Friday Night Fever" and performed play-by-play of HS sporting events on TV for several years before coming over to radio. He's covered Syracuse University sports for 15 years and hosted pre-game and post game shows for Syracuse University Football and Basketball Teams. He's a graduate of Syracuse University's renowned S.I. Newhouse School of Communications and a proud SU Alum.