Lykos is Greek for "wolf" (from the same Indo-European root as Latin lupus, Gothic wulfs, Old Slavic vluku, Russian volk, etc.).
There was an area near ancient Athens called Lykeion with a sanctuary of Apollo Lykeios and a gymnasium...because Aristotle lectured at that gymnasium, we have the word lyceum for educational establishments.
The epithet Lykeios ("of a wolf") was applied to Apollo either as "wolf-slayer" (shortened from lykoktonos) or as the Lycian god (the Lycians being a barbarian nation of southwestern Asia Minor).
Do you think he was trying to say Novak hates gymnasiums, but was doing it in an NPR/CBS sort of way, so it would be all mixed up and phony, but sound true on the surface?