Gregg Sussman will be.

WFAN (660 AM) said Tuesday that Sussman, 22, from Manalapan, N.J., has beaten several thousand other civilian contestants to land his own weekly show on the city's No. 1 sports-talk station.

Sussman, who graduated from the University of Maryland this spring and spent the summer looking for a broadcasting job, sounded pretty happy about the news.

"It's every sports fan's dream," he says. "If you can't play sports, you want to talk about them."

WFAN program director Mark Chernoff says Sussman will start in "two or three weeks," probably on a late-night weekend shift. "But if he does as well as I think he can," said Chernoff, "we'll be looking for other places to use him."

While Sussman was the youngest candidate in the 'FAN contest, he's no radio rookie. He spent four years broadcasting and talking sports at the University of Maryland's WMUC, moving up to football and basketball play-by-play his senior year.

"First I did all the other sports," he says. "Softball, lacrosse. That helped tremendously. You learned how to call a game, how to do interviews."

Born in Long Island and raised in New Jersey, Sussman is also a sports-radio listener and occasional caller, and can even maintain his own running dialogue with hosts.

"I argue with them while I'm listening," he says. "I do that with games, too. I'll be saying to the announcer, 'No, no, you got that wrong.' "

His own loyalties, he says, lie with the Yankees, Giants, Knicks and Rangers. But he says that as a host, he's open to all views.

In fact, Sussman says, his best schooling for the new gig "was just talking sports with my friends. On the radio, the listeners are my friends."