Surprising news broke on Tuesday afternoon, when it was announced that Syracuse.com’s Bud Poliquin, the long-time reporter and columnist, would call it a career after more than 40 years in the industry.
He spent the last 36 with Syracuse.com/the Syracuse Post-Standard, covering Syracuse Orange sports. But after yet another eventful season chronicling SU, he felt it was time to retire. As he told his employer of nearly four decades:
“The universe is talking to me a little bit here that maybe it's time for me to step up more as son, son-in-law, brother and husband and the job is sort of getting in the way of that.