Longtime Finebaum Caller Shane From Centerpoint Dies After Battle With Cancer

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Dec 042011
 
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...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 7:07 pm

The Shame of College Sports

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Sep 262011
 
The Shame of College Sports

The Shame of College Sports Today Paul Finebaum interviewed Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Taylor Branch regarding this article in “The Atlantic Magazine” entitled “The Shame of College Sports“.  In the interview, the pair discussed the history, current state, and future of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.  From TheAtlantic.com by Taylor Branch. “I’m not hiding,” Sonny Vaccaro told a closed hearing at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., in 2001. “We want to put our materials on the bodies of your athletes, and the best way to do that is buy your school. Or buy your coach.” Vaccaro’s audience, [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 9:01 pm

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

 Al from Dadeville, Auburn Tigers, Paul Finebaum, SEC  1 Response »
Sep 162011
 
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...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 12:48 pm

Mark Richt Is A Great Guy; That Doesn’t Mean He Should Keep His Job

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Sep 152011
 
Mark Richt Is A Great Guy; That Doesn't Mean He Should Keep His Job

From  SportsIllustrated.cnn.com by Paul Finebaum. Several years ago I did something no self-respecting, middle-aged man should ever have to do in the glacial dead of winter: I went to a breakfast meeting at 6 am. More than 500 people filled a downtown building in Birmingham, while another 250 people were in an overflow room watching on closed circuit television. We were all there to hear Mark Richt, the head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs, who were the preseason favorite to win the 2008 national championship. Richt’s talk was brilliant, weaving Old Testament passages with humorous tales [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 9:32 pm

Penn State Football: Noted Columnist Finebaum Says Joe Paterno Should Retire

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Sep 092011
 
Penn State Football: Noted Columnist Finebaum Says Joe Paterno Should Retire

From BleacherReport.com by Kevin McGuire. There are sports writers from coast to coast who have a certain column they write on an annual basis about Philadelphia sports fans. Every time the playoff season rolls around, it does not matter the sport, these writers load up the document they originally crafted in 1995 and update a couple key names to make it read a little more current. You know the events they drag into the picture. The booing of Santa. Throwing batteries at J.D. Drew. Booing Donovan McNabb at the NFL draft. These individual events have been [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 6:52 am

Statement from Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin

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Sep 072011
 
Statement from Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin

Courtesy: Texas A&M Athletics Release: 09/07/2011 President R. Bowen Loftin, Texas A&M University Statement Regarding Conference Situation “We are certainly pleased with the action taken last night by the presidents and chancellors of the Southeastern Conference to unanimously accept Texas A&M as the league’s 13th member. However, this acceptance is conditional, and we are disappointed in the threats made by one of the Big 12 member institutions to coerce Texas A&M into staying in Big 12 Conference. These actions go against the commitment that was made by this university and the Big 12 on Sept. [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 11:53 am

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

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Aug 312011
 
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...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 8:09 pm

Paul Finebaum To Write For Sports Illustrated

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Aug 302011
 
Paul Finebaum To Write For Sports Illustrated

Paul Finebaum, popular sports-talk radio host, announced today on twitter that he will be writing for Sports Illustrated.  Finebaum, who has been prominent in new headlines over the past eight months, is scheduled to post his first article on SI.com on Thursday. This announcement comes amidst recent speculation that he is planning a move From WJOX 94.5 FM in Birmingham to new cross-town rival 97.3 FM The Zone, a Yahoo! Sports Radio affiliate. Finebaum’s weekly column, which was published by The Press-Register in Mobile and carried by numerous newspapers throughout Alabama and the South, was officially discontinued in [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 9:28 am

Photos Said To Identify One Of The Alleged Victims Of LSU Bar Fight As U.S. Marine

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Aug 252011
 
Photos Said To Identify One Of The Alleged Victims Of LSU Bar Fight As U.S. Marine

BustedCoverage.com has posted a photo allegedly depicting a vicim in the fight in which four LSU football players were implicated. The fight occurred outside Shady’s Bar early last Friday morning in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In the post, Busted Coverage stated that the alleged victim was identified by “one of our reliable sources on the Bayou”. According to the post, the “reliable source” identified it as a “picture of one of the guys involved in the LSU fight.”  The source also said,  “I believe his name is Andrew Lowery.” Deadspin.com has posted the same image and identified the man as a United States Marine [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 8:08 am

NCAA To Speak To Danny Sheridan About Cam Newton ‘Bag Man’ Report

 Auburn Tigers, Cam Newton, Danny Sheriden, NCAA, Paul Finebaum Radio Network, SEC  No Responses »
Aug 242011
 
NCAA To Speak To Danny Sheridan About Cam Newton 'Bag Man' Report

From Al.com by Randy Kennedy. MOBILE, Alabama — Mobile’s Danny Sheridan has been contacted by the NCAA concerning information about the recruitment of former Auburn quarterback Cam Newton and expects to talk to a representative from the organization’s investigation staff this week. Sheridan was contacted through his attorney, Vince Kilborn, who said, “I can confirm that an NCAA representative called me Monday and asked to speak to my client about the whole Cam Newton matter.” Sheridan made waves on Paul Finebaum’s radio show recently when he said that an NCAA source told him there was a [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 8:37 am

Sheridan Set to Reveal ‘Bagman’ And Witness on Paul Finebaum Show

 Auburn Tigers, Cam Newton, Clay Travis, Danny Sheriden, NCAA, Paul Finebaum, SEC  No Responses »
Aug 142011
 
Sheridan Set to Reveal 'Bagman' And Witness on Paul Finebaum Show

From OutkickTheCoverage.com by Clay Travis.   Danny Sheridan, USA Today’s odds handicapper, Tweeted the following message today.   “I’ve been told the name of the person the NCAA feels allegedly paid Cecil Newton & where witness is. more when on Finebaum this week.” This tweet follows up on the allegation Sheridan made at SEC Media Days last month.   Appearing on Paul Finebaum’s radio show from the Wynfrey Hotel lobby, Sheridan said that the NCAA believed it had identified a bagman in the Cam Newton case and had a witness who could verify the payoff. At [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 3:09 pm

Horse Racing Expected To Return To Birmingham

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Aug 042011
 
Horse Racing Expected To Return To Birmingham

From MyFoxAl.com. Paul Finebaum with the Finebaum Radio Network says live horse racing was the biggest thing in Birmingham at one point, and he believes mismanagement caused it to go under. We asked if he thought it could succeed this time.”If it’s done correctly I think it can be very successful,” said Finebaum. “I think it’ll elevate that track to a level where it hasn’t been in a long time. So done correctly, it’s a positive. Done shabby, it’s another bust.” Read the original article: Horse racing expected to return to Birmingham.  

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 10:45 pm

Harvey Updyke Gives Emotional Interview On Paul Finebaum’s Radio Show

 Al from Dadeville, Alabama Crimson Tide, Auburn Tigers, Harvey Updyke, Interviews, NCAA Conferences, Paul Finebaum, SEC, Toomer's Corner  No Responses »
Apr 212011
 
Harvey Updyke Gives Emotional Interview On Paul Finebaum’s Radio Show

From SportsGrid.com by Dan Fogarty. A day after allegedly being assaulted at a gas station, Harvey Updyke, a man at the center of one of the most bizarre college football scandals ever, called the radio show where the whole thing started. Updyke is a 62-year-old fanatical Alabama football fan who is accused of poisoning the iconic trees at Toomer’s Corner, the traditional meeting place for Auburn University fans. Auburn and Alabama have one of the most bitter rivalries in sports. Updyke, who originally called into Finebaum’s under the pseudonym “Al from Dadeville” to brag about poisoning [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 4:20 pm

Report: Four Former Players Tell HBO They Received Money While At AU

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Mar 292011
 
Report: Four Former Players Tell HBO They Received Money While At AU

From OaNow.com by David Morrison. Four former Auburn players allege they received money and extra benefits from boosters and members of the coaching staff on an HBO “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” special set to air tonight. A transcript of the show gleaned from an advance copy and produced by SportsByBrooks.com quotes Chaz Ramsey and Troy Reddick, former Auburn offensive lineman, and former Tigers defensive linemen Raven Gray and Stanley McClover enumerating the benefits they received while playing for Auburn. “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” sent an email to the Opelika-Auburn News earlier this month requesting [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 11:27 pm

Cousin Jailed On Charges Unrelated To Arrest Of Mark Barron

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Mar 222011
 
Cousin Jailed On Charges Unrelated To Arrest Of Mark Barron

From Al.com by Mark R. Kent. MOBILE, Alabama — The cousin of Alabama football player Mark Barron was held without bail today in Mobile County Metro Jail on charges unrelated to the car wreck that resulted in Barron’s arrest Sunday, according to court and jail records. Jeremy Lavoris Lang, 22, was bound over to the grand jury today on a charge of possession of cocaine, according to jail records. Mobile police spokesman Officer Christopher Levy said today that Lang was arrested Feb. 25 during a Mardi Gras event and also charged with attempting to possess a [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 9:30 pm

WBNS Radio Parts Ways With Finebaum Guest And Ohio State Source Bruce Hooley

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Mar 172011
 
WBNS Radio Parts Ways With Finebaum Guest And Ohio State Source Bruce Hooley

From BruceHooley.com by Bruce Hooley. Yesterday was my first experience in more than 25 years of covering sports to be the story, not part of covering the story, and it was both strange and enlightening. My departure from WBNS Radio 97.1 The Fan generated a fair amount of Twitter buzz in Columbus and sparked a post on the popular web site SportsbyBrooks.com. http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/official-buckeye-station-cant-handle-the-truth-29567 I can’t express enough thanks to those who posted their good wishes on Twitter and via email. I will eventually return those emails, as soon as my duties for FoxSportsOhio.com permit — and [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 11:00 pm

Paul Finebaum Likens Auburn Program To Ponzi Scheme

 Auburn, Gene Chizik, Jay Jacobs, Paul Finebaum, SEC  4 Responses »
Mar 152011
 
Paul Finebaum Likens Auburn Program To Ponzi Scheme

From WarBlogle.com. We all know how Paul Finebaum works. He has built his show around stirring the pot, creating controversy, and feeding off those that claim they’ll never listen to him again. You can listen one day and he’s all on the Nick Saban bandwagon, and the next day he’s bashing him and all about Chizik. This past Friday, I heard him switch back and forth from one caller to the next, so it’s no surprise as to what he’s doing. Most see it, but those that continue to call do not. HOWEVER…. Last week, [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 5:23 pm

Four Auburn University Football Players Arrested In Connection With Robbery

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Mar 112011
 
Four Auburn University Football Players Arrested In Connection With Robbery

From OaNow.com by David Morrison. Here’s the Auburn Police Department statement. More on this as it becomes available: On Friday, March 11, 2011, the Auburn Police Division arrested four people and charged each of them with five counts of Robbery 1st Degree, one count of Burglary 1st Degree, and one count of Theft of Property 3rd Degree.  They are identified as Antonio M. Goodwin, age 20, Kowaski Q. Kitchens, age 19, Michael A. McNeil, age 22, and Harrison D. Mosley, age 19.  All list an Auburn address.  At approximately 12:25 a.m. this same date officers responded [Comment or Read the Rest...]

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