Charlie Voelker is the host of Sunday Sports Buzz, 8a – 10a and fill-in co-host for 104.5 the TEAM's morning and afternoon shows. Voelker currently serves as the color analyst for UAlbany football and basketball heard here on WTMM and on TV for ESPN3/+. Charlie is also the play-by-play voice for UAlbany men’s lacrosse on ESPN3/+ and America East TV. Charlie has been a part of the Capital Region Sports scene for over the last 25 years. In 1996 he joined Big Board Sports host and NewsChannel 13 sports director, Rodger Wyland in the UAlbany broadcast booth for football and basketball. Charlie spent 6 years in minor league baseball, then spent the next 17 years as the Associate Athletic Director for the University at Albany before retiring from that position in 2020. Charlie and his wife Kim live in Albany County with his son Andrew.
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New York Stadiums Take Notice of Nationals Game
According to reports by ESPN Saturday night "the game between the Padres and the Nationals was suspended in the sixth inning Saturday night after a shooting outside Nationals Park that caused echoes of gunfire inside the stadium and prompted fans to scramble for safety in the dugout." Fan…
Saratoga Race Course Delivers
This afternoon as I passed through the thousands of fans that came out to enjoy the first Friday of racing season in the Spa City, many come year after year. The UAlbany Alumni Association held their annual outing. Hundreds were adorned in purple and gold ready to make their bets and enjoy the spec…
A Labor of Love for ValleyCats’ Journeyman Pitcher
Life for most minor league baseball players is filled with long bus rides; not so great hotels and plenty of fast food. Truly not the formula one would recommend for training a world class athlete. Some players are on their way up to "the show", many are fighting to be noticed, while som…
Root Canal leads to Yankee Hot Streak
When a team is struggling like the New York Yankees have been, you need someone to step up with a Herculean effort sometimes to right the ship. An extracted tooth may have been just the thing to set Aaron Boone's Bronx Bombers sailing.
NCAA Rules Student-Athletes Can Profit from Image
Pandora’s Box has now been opened. The NCAA ruled that student-athletes may now own their NIL (Name, Image & Likeness). The ruling seems like it would be a common sense decision and it should be but it’s not.
5 Cool Baseball Road Trips 4th of July Weekend
“Baseball, apple pie and Chevrolet” said the old TV commercial. Baseball is as American as it gets. It was, at one time, “America’s pastime.” I think those days have passed but it is hard to celebrate a holiday around a Playstation 5 or XBox Series X, so we …
Top 5 Patriotic Stadium Rock Songs
Wow. If you ever want to start an argument these days, ask someone to define “patriotic.” However, if you get a group of sports fans together and you ask about cool, patriotic stadium rock songs, you definitely get a fun conversation. No matter what, every Top 5 has some personal bia…
COVID 19 Leaves Some High School Student-Athletes in the Cold
There will be high school football games played in the Capital Region of New York today, strange as that seems at the tail end of March, instead of October. We’ve gotten used to some of the abnormalities, such as no fans in the stands and student-athletes competing with masks. Another missi…