In 1980, he relocated to Alabama to work at the Birmingham Post-Herald. During his senior year, Finebaum penned a column about the school basketball team written in the style of an obituary and was subsequently barred from traveling with the team for a game against the University of Kentucky.Īfter graduating in 1978 with a degree in political science, Finebaum began working as a sportswriter for the Shreveport Times in Louisiana. Finebaum became the paper’s sports editor in 1977. He soon turned to writing about sports and quickly developed a contrarian style that rankled fans as well as officials in the school’s athletic department. Finebaum began his journalism career by covering student government for the UT student newspaper, The Daily Beacon. Finebaum attended Christian Brothers and White Station high schools in Memphis before enrolling at University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville in 1974.

Finebaum’s father, an optometrist, died in 1971 and his mother took a job as a clerk in the Memphis IRS office to support the family. Now hosted in Charlotte, North Carolina, the show is broadcast five days a week nationally on the ESPN Radio Network and simulcast on the SEC Network, which covers the Southeastern Conference (SEC) of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA).įinebaum was born July 26, 1955, in Memphis, Tennessee, to Benjamin and Gloria Filderman Finebaum, who moved from New York to Memphis with his older sister Pam shortly before his birth. His popular call-in radio show, The Paul Finebaum Show, was based in Birmingham, Jefferson County, for more than 30 years.

Paul Alan Finebaum (1955- ) is a top-rated sportscaster, sports radio show host, sportswriter, and author who made his name covering college football in Alabama.

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