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Bud Poliquin
Sports Columnist
The Syracuse Post-Standard
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Bud Poliquin, the lead sports columnist of The Syracuse Post-Standard, has
written about sports (and other subjects) in Central New York since 1984. Prior
to that, he was both sports editor and sports columnist for The San Diego
Tribune, for which he'd earlier covered the NBA.
In seven different years, Poliquin has been named to lists compiled by The
Associated Press Sports Editors group identifying the top 10 sports columnists
in America. He was also a member of the team of San Diego Tribune reporters who
earned the Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the 1978 PSA jetliner crash in
San Diego.
Poliquin has traveled both the country and the world, having been dispatched on
newspaper assignment to 40 of the 50 states (including both Alaska and Hawaii)
as well as to the Bahamas, Canada, England, Germany, Greece, Japan, Mexico and
Scotland.
He has covered 23 Final Fours, 20 college football bowl games, 14 Super Bowls,
seven World Series and two Olympiads. In addition, he has covered the NBA
playoffs, three of the four Grand Slam events in men's professional golf, the
Indianapolis 500 and numerous championship boxing matches featuring the likes
of Muhammad Ali, Roberto Duran, George Foreman, Marvin Hagler, Larry Holmes,
Sugar Ray Leonard and Mike Tyson.
Beyond the sports world, Poliquin has covered both the Democratic and
Republican presidential nominating conventions, protest demonstrations and
Central New York's response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Poliquin, who co-hosts the sports-talk radio show, "Bud & The
Manchild," on WHEN (620-AM), has authored two books -- "Purely
Poliquin," a collection of 100 of his newspaper columns; and "Tales
From The Syracuse Hardwood," an anecdotal history of Syracuse University
basketball.
Born in Chicago, raised in Iowa and educated in Connecticut, he lives
with his bride, Kathleen, in Fayetteville, N.Y. They have two children,
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