"Paul Alan Finebaum" is an American sports author, television and radio personality, and former columnist. His primary focus is sports, particularly those in the Southeast. After many years as a reporter, columnist, and sports-talk radio host in the Birmingham area, Finebaum was hired by ESPN in 2013 for its new SEC Network starting in 2014, and produces a radio show out of the network's regional base in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Finebaum was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Paul attended Christian Brothers High School/Christian Brothers High School and White Station High School in Memphis before graduating from the University of Tennessee, where he received a liberal arts degree in Political Science, in 1978. He served as host of the Paul Finebaum Radio Network, whose flagship station was on WJOX-FM from 2:05-6pm CST. The show was Radio syndication/syndicated in Alabama (27 stations), Mississippi (2 stations), Tennessee (3), and on single stations in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, and also heard on Sirius XM Radio's Channel 84

He's been a guest on television's Larry King Live, CBS' 60 Minutes, Nancy Grace, MSNBC's Morning Joe, HBO, and Tru TV.

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I've always said Spurrier is the best coach since Bryant, and I would have loved to [have] seen them go head to head. I think Spurrier would have had some success, at least more than anyone else did. I really think Spurrier would have driven Bryant crazy.

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He's had the case since July, and he picks this week to make this decision? The whole thing doesn't add up. Anyone who doesn't smell a rat doesn't have a nose.

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Supposedly the 20 minutes I spend with him every Monday is the most listened to 20 minutes in the state. I've hung up on him and quit two or three times. Last year, though, we went through it without many hangups.

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Almost all the projections have UAB in now and if UAB isn't invited after what they did against Memphis, then they ought to shut the NCAA tournament down.

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I wrote a column once where I went to Bryant's grave and had this mock conversation with the Bear.

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One reason so many great coaches have tried to get him is because they know he'll be a leader on the field as well as one of the best players in the country.

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