15 Facts About Paul Finebaum

Paul Finebaum was born on July 26,1955 and is an American sports author, former columnist, and television-radio personality.

Paul Finebaum's primary focus is sports in the Southeast United States.

Paul Finebaum produces a radio show out of the network's regional base in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Paul Finebaum became a columnist and reporter for the Birmingham Post-Herald in 1980.

Paul Finebaum earned more than 250 national, regional, and area sports writing awards, including an award for his Alabama basketball player Buck Johnson recruitment stories.

Paul Finebaum joined the Mobile Press Register in 2001, where he wrote a twice-weekly column that was syndicated to other newspapers.

Paul Finebaum started his radio appearances in the mid-1980s by giving morning commentary on the Mark and Brian Radio Show on WAPI-FM.

In October 1993, Paul Finebaum moved his sport talk show to WERC.

In 2011, the poisoning of the trees on Toomer's Corner at Auburn University led a man, Harvey Updyke, to call the Paul Finebaum show about the story.

Paul Finebaum was featured on the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams and appeared on CNN, ESPN, MSNBC, and several other networks.

Paul Finebaum's show went off the air temporarily on WJOX on January 21,2013, when his contract with Cumulus and WJOX expired.

In Birmingham, as of 2009, Paul Finebaum appeared as a sports analyst for WBRC.

Paul Finebaum was sports director for WIAT-TV from 1998 to 2002 and co-hosted individual shows on WVTM-TV and WBMA.

On March 27,2013, The Birmingham News reported that Paul Finebaum agreed to an advance with HarperCollins to write a book about the radio show.

Paul Finebaum attended Christian Brothers High School and White Station High School in Memphis before graduating from the University of Tennessee, where he received a degree in political science in 1978.