Longtime Finebaum Caller Shane From Centerpoint Dies After Battle With Cancer

From al.com by Ben Flanagan. If ever you’ve turned the dial to Paul Finebaum’s daily sports talk radio show, the name “Shane from Centerpoint” means something to you. Whether you gritted your teeth at his outright homer-ism for his beloved Crimson Tide or you pumped your fist as he pridefully hassled national media members who appeared on the show, Shane got a daily rise out of regular listeners. Finebaum becomes a daily fixture for so many who live and breathe college football in the South, and so do his eccentric cast of callers. Some might say [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 
9/28/11 Daily Preview From The Paul Finebaum Radio Network

HARVEY UPDYKE APOLOGIZES TO AUBURN- In a call to the show this afternoon, accused Toomer’s Tree poisoner Harvey Updyke told Finebaum,”I want to tell the Auburn people. I am truly sorry for all the damage I have done. I’m asking for forgiveness.” Updyke added, “People really don’t understand how bad it hurts. I guess I deserve it.” LISTEN TO THE AUDIO FROM UPDYKE’S CALL. Listen To More Audio Clips From The Pal Finebaum Show.

 
Former Crimson Tide Fullback Kevin Turner Continues Battle With ALS; Video Inspires Millions To "Journey On"

Kevin Turner Kevin Turner, star fullback for the Alabama Crimson Tide, played eight seasons in the NFL for the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles throughout the 1990s. In May 2010, Kevin was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) also referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Kevin is now involved in research that links chronic traumatic encephalopathy (“CTE” i.e. repeated brain trauma) in athletes to ALS, and through The Kevin Turner Foundation, he is raising awareness about these issues. Kevin recently filmed a music video with renown country artist, Ty Herndon.  It serves as to promote awareness of [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 
9/23/11 Daily Preview From The Paul Finebaum Radio Network

SHAUN ALEXANDER IN STUDIO TODAY- Former NFL MVP and Alabama All-American Shaun Alexander will join us today as we look back at his playing career. Shaun and Paul will also preview this weekend’s SEC action and look ahead to the rest of the national slate of games. Also we’ll talk today with Danny Sheridan… CBS Sports’ Tony Barnhart… and former Alabama HC Gene Stallings.

 
Tentative Plan For Mizzou To Join SEC, Auburn Would Move To East, Sources Say

From Al.com. The Southeastern Conference and the University of Missouri have informally agreed that, barring new developments, the school will join the league and that Auburn University will move to the SEC East Division, according to two people familiar with the discussions. A majority of presidents has endorsed the informal agreement, the sources said. The league already plans to add Texas A&M as its 13th member, provided potential legal challenges from some remaining Big 12 members disappear. Missouri, also a member of the Big 12, would be the 14th member of the SEC. A timetable [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 
Never To Yield Foundation: Dear Paul Finebaum, We Don’t Love You…

From NeverToYieldFoundation.com. Dear Paul Finebaum: We don’t love you anymore. Okay, just to be clear we never really loved you in the first place. But we tolerated you. We took your jibes. We laughed when you drove a tractor to Auburn. We snickered along with your relentless campaigns against Mike DuBose, Mike Price and Mike Shula. We accepted and understood that you were a shameless self-promoter and we knew you’d do just about anything that didn’t involve juggling live kittens or full frontal nudity (thank God) to increase your presence. No, we didn’t like it [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 
Former Auburn AD David Housel: Auburn Fans Taking Their Outrage To Extreme Levels

By The Finebaum Fan. Former Auburn Athletic Director David Housel who once gave a radio commentary issuing a “Call to Arms” to the Auburn Nation, says now that “some of our fans just need to get over it and move on”. The “it” to which he was referring is the poisoning of the beloved oak trees at Toomer’s Corner – allegedly by Harvey Updyke, a self-professed Crimson Tide fanatic. A story posted by The Montgomery Advertiser, put it this way:   David Housel has seen the good and the ugly of the Alabama-Auburn rivalry over the years. The former Auburn athletic [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 
1983 Alabama vs. Penn State: “The Catch That Didn’t Count”

From SaturdayDownSouth.com. Hours before his name became a household word in Alabama and beyond, forever bathed in controversy, Preston Gothard was privately seething. “I was pretty mad,” Gothard recalled more than a quarter-century later. All week long, the 6-foot-4, 210-pound junior tight end from Montgomery had been working with the first-team Alabama offense, eagerly anticipating his first career start in place of the injured Thornton Chandler. “So jacked up, so excited…” But when the team doctor cleared the veteran Chandler to play against Penn State in a nationally televised game at Beaver Stadium on October [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 
Letter From Big 12 Commissioner, Dan Beebe To SEC Commissioner, Mike Slive

From Ncaa.com. SEC Votes To Accept Texas A&M A Big 12 school has threatened legal action if Aggies leave The Southeastern Conference announced Wednesday that it will make Texas A&M the 13th team in the league but said the move is on hold because a Big 12 school has threatened legal action if the Aggies leave. The SEC said it received “unanimous written assurance” from the Big 12 on Sept. 2 that it was free to accept Texas A&M. The presidents and chancellors then met late Tuesday “with the intention of accepting the application of [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 
9/5/11 Daily Recap From The Paul Finebaum Radio Network

AUBURN SURVIVES, TIDE ROLLS- It was wild first weekend in college football, with the defending National Champions and 23rd-ranked Tigers scoring twice in the final 2:07 to escape with a win vs Utah State. First-time starter Barrett Trotter hit Philip Lutzenkirchen for a 15-yard touchdown to start a Cam Newton-like comeback. Then wide receiver Emory Blake collected the onside kick to set up the game-winning drive. Former AU HC Pat Dye will be with us today as we discuss this week’s game vs Miss State and review the weekend’s SEC action.  

 
Tuscaloosa Embraces 2011 Crimson Tide Football Season

From Espn.go.com by Ivan Maisel. TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The physical wounds that Alabama long-snapper Carson Tinker suffered when the tornado struck on April 27 are nearly gone. The gash that opened his right ankle has diminished to a scratch. The scar on Tinker’s right wrist, where he underwent an operation to reattach a ligament to the bone, is red and raised. It is ugly, and it is healing. “I got scars all over my body,” Tinker said. “It’s not like I focus on that or anything. But when I look at myself in the mirror, I [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 
Alabama; Number One In Preseason Football Rankings - A Healing Force In Tuscaloosa

From LaTimes.com by Chris Dufresne. From Tuscaloosa, Ala. — Cecil Hurt agreed to drive the rental through the tornado zone. It was his town. These were his tears. His daddy played football in the 1950s for “Ears” Whitworth, famous now only for being Alabama’s coach before Bear Bryant. Hurt is a sports columnist for the Tuscaloosa News, but what ripped through his city April 27 made everyone chroniclers, first responders and teammates. The tornado struck shortly after 5 p.m. and roared, a mile wide in some spots, four miles from the city’s southwest corner to its [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 
Alabama and Auburn: The Most Poisonous Rivalry in Sports

From: GQ.com by Ben Austen. What would college football be without the trash talk, the drunken battle cries, the simmering, adolescent feuds? A lot less fun, that’s what. Still, the whole football-as-warfare thing can sometimes get out of hand, as one rogue soldier learned last winter in the bitter archrivalry between Alabama and Auburn. Ben Austen heads south to investigate one of the nuttiest episodes in the annals of fandom Last January, two weeks after the Auburn Tigers vanquished the Oregon Ducks for the national championship, Paul Finebaum, the host of a radio sports show in [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 
Sadly, Finebaum Sweepstakes Winner Will Claim Talk-Radio Battle In Birmingham

From Al.com by John Solomon. You say you’re sick of hearing about Danny Sheridan’s bagmen and Harvey Updyke’s poison. But like it or not, you’re still listening. It’s in this context to consider news that Cox Media Group will start a second sports talk station in Birmingham next Tuesday. It will be 97.3 FM The Zone, meaning advertisers can buy spots on The Zone radio station or The Zone TV show on ABC 33/40. If that’s confusing, well, such is life in the ever-changing Birmingham sports radio market, where Paul Finebaum remains the biggest prize for [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 
Alabama's Carson Tinker Overcoming Scars Of April 27th Tornado in Tuscaloosa

From Alabama.Rivals.com By Chase Goodbread. Carson Tinker looks ready for football in every way. The University of Alabama’s long snapper bares the scars of the April 27 tornado in Tuscaloosa on the outside, following surgery to his right wrist, and on injured right ankle that took much of the summer to heal after the storm threw him from his residence. The scarring on the inside, far more complicated, comes from the loss of girlfriend Ashley Harrison, who was among the dozens killed by the storm. But in overcoming all of his that was lost, the Decatur [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 
Paul Finebaum Suing Parent Company Of Station That Airs His Radio Show

From Al.com by Bob Carlton. Cox Media Group Will Launch Its Own 24-Hour Sports-Talk Station On Tuesday BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — Radio host Paul Finebaum has sued Citadel Broadcasting, the parent company of Birmingham sports-talk station WJOX, the flagship station for Finebaum’s popular “Paul Finebaum Radio Network.” Meanwhile, the Birmingham market manager for the Cox Media Group said this afternoon that Cox will launch its own 24-hour sports-talk station on Tuesday and would be interested in having Finebaum on the team should he get out of his contract with Citadel. “If his situation clears up legally, I [Comment or Read the Rest...]

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