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...]

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10/6/11 Daily Preview From The Paul Finebaum Radio Network

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Oct 072011
 
10/6/11 Daily Preview From The Paul Finebaum Radio Network

SEC’S 14th? BAMA SEZ NO TO MO- In an article on al.com, sources say “that as of now it appears that a majority of SEC presidents and chancellors would support Missouri’s application.” The sources went on to say “that majority falls just short of the nine votes required to add a new member” and “there’s a group of presidents that wants to sit tight, believing the SEC can do better than Missouri.” Some have indicated that Alabama wants to look at a team from the East and not risk losing its annual game against Tennessee, [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 12:55 pm

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

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Sep 282011
 
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.

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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

Texas A&M Athletics’ New Home In SEC Official

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Sep 262011
 
Texas A&M Athletics' New Home In SEC Official

From TheEagle.com by Robert Cessna. Texas A&M is hopeful that good things come to those who wait. The Southeastern Conference officially became a 13-team league Sunday by giving the Aggies an unconditional offer. It replaces a conditional one the league had given A&M on Sept. 6, and possibly indicates that all legal hurdles have been cleared for A&M to peacefully leave the Big 12. A&M’s move is effective starting in July with the Aggies participating in all sports in the 2012-13 academic year. “We are excited to begin competition in the nation’s premier athletic conference,” Texas A&M [Comment or Read the Rest...]

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Big 12 Staying Intact; Dan Beebe Out As Commissioner

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Sep 232011
 
Big 12 Staying Intact; Dan Beebe Out As Commissioner

From Newson6.com. NORMAN, Oklahoma – OU president David Boren, athletic director Joe Castiglione and football coach Bob stoops met with the media to talk about the future of the Big 12 conference on Thursday. While the biggest announcements were the removal of Dan Beebe as commissioner and the agreement of a six-year grant of rights contract to keep teams in the league, there were several other hot topics that were discussed. Driving The Train Many described the actions of Oklahoma and Texas over the past few weeks of conference negotiations as a bit of a [Comment or Read the Rest...]

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9/22/11 Daily Preview From The Paul Finebaum Radio Network

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Sep 222011
 
9/22/11 Daily Preview From The Paul Finebaum Radio Network

BEEBE OUT, WHAT’S NEXT FOR BIG 12? Sources say Dan Beebe is working on an agreement to leave his position as Big 12 Conference commissioner and an announcement is expected to come today. Beebe’s job came in question earlier this week when a report out of Oklahoma said a condition for the Sooners’ continued membership in the Big 12 was to have a new commissioner. His exit comes as the conference decides how to move forward with nine teams next season after losing a member for the third time in 15 months. Today we’ll talk [Comment or Read the Rest...]

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

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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...]

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

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Sep 162011
 
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...]

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Auburn Fans Fear Paul Finebaum; Bunker Wants Finebaum Banned From Auburn Games

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Sep 132011
 
Auburn Fans Fear Paul Finebaum; Bunker Wants Finebaum Banned From Auburn Games

From CapstoneReport.com. The South’s most influential media voice has Auburn fans in a tizzy. Paul Finebaum, host of the Paul Finebaum Radio Network and a Sports Illustrated columnist, attended the Auburn-Mississippi State game. Auburn fans in a typical display of SEC hospitality heckled Finebaum. At least the verbal abuse was better than Finebaum’s trip to Auburn in 2009—a trip that resulted in an Auburn fan spitting on Finebaum and two coaches’ wives verbally accosting Finebaum following Auburn’s home loss. (See more on that confrontation here.) The real story came after the game. Auburn fans on [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 11:50 am

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

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

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Sep 082011
 
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...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 12:21 am

Big 12 Commissioner, Dan Beebe Finally Releases Statement; Email Surfaces

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Sep 072011
 
Big 12 Commissioner, Dan Beebe Finally Releases Statement; Email Surfaces

From Statesman.com by Suzanne Halliburton. Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe finally has addressed situation with A&M possibly leaving for the SEC. This statement was just issued to the media. “This is the first time to my knowledge that a conference has been requested to waive any legal claims toward another conference for any damages suffered with a membership change. The Big 12 Conference was asked by Texas A&M University and the Southeastern Conference to waive any such claim to help facilitate Texas A&M’s departure from the Conference without any consideration to the Big 12. Although they [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 6:02 pm

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

Billy Liucci: Texas A&M To SEC Deal Premature – “Still A Hurdle To Clear”

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Sep 072011
 
Billy Liucci: Texas A&M To SEC Deal Premature - "Still A Hurdle To Clear"

Compiled by By The Finebaum Fan. Late last night, an article posted by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram proclaimed - “Texas A&M to announce move to SEC on Wednesday”.  That report soon spread like a Texas wildfire across social networks. Speculation has been building for weeks that the move was imminent.  Texas A&M announced on August 25 that it had notified the Big 12 of its intention to explore its options pertaining to conference affiliation. Billy Liucci of TexAgs.com was interviewed yesterday by Paul Finebaum on the Paul Finebaum Radio Network.  In that interview, Liucci outlined the process for the move: “They (Texas [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 5:27 am

ESPN: Oklahoma Debating Conference Options

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Sep 032011
 
ESPN: Oklahoma Debating Conference Options

From Espn.go.com. NORMAN, Okla. — University of Oklahoma president David Boren says multiple conferences have shown interest in the Sooners recently and he expects to decide whether to leave the Big 12 or not within the next three weeks. Boren said Friday that Oklahoma is seeking stability in its conference relationship with “partners that are both outstanding athletically and academically as well because a conference that’s strong is not only stable but it’s one in which there are multiple relationships, along with sports, between the university members.” He said he tried to prevent Texas A&M [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 5:59 pm

Tuscaloosa Embraces 2011 Crimson Tide Football Season

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Sep 022011
 
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...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 5:13 pm

Chris Vernon Parody Song “Ode To Danny Sheridan” Is A Hit – Even To Danny Sheridan

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Sep 012011
 
Chris Vernon Parody Song "Ode To Danny Sheridan" Is A Hit - Even To Danny Sheridan

Chris Vernon Chris Vernon, popular host of the Chris Vernon Show on 730 Fox Sports in Memphis, Tennessee, has produced yet another parody hit for Southeastern Conference football fans. “Ode To Danny Sheridan” is a follow-up to Vernon’s SEC classic, “Colonel Reb is Crying”, written about former Tennessee assistant and Ole Miss head coach, Ed Orgeron. Vernon is currently “on tour” performing  his song on sports talk radio stations and message boards all across the country.   Vernon is capitalizing on the raging controversy created by sports analyst Danny Sheridan.  In a recent appearance on the Paul Finebaum Radio Network, Sheridan claimed  that he knew the name [Comment or Read the Rest...]

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