Paul Finebaum was born to Benjamin and Gloria Finebaum on July 26, 1955, in Memphis, Tennessee. His father was an optometrist, and his mother was a former IRS clerk.
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Paul Finebaum is an American sports author, reporter, former sports talk radio host, former columnist, and television radio personality. Finebaum had a leading role in ESPN’s documentary Roll Tide/War Eagle.
Paul Finebaum became a columnist and reporter for the Birmingham Post-Herald in 1980. Paul Finebaum started his afternoon radio show on WAPI-AM.
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In October 1993, Finebaum moved his sports talk show to WERC. He was sports director for WIAT-TV from 1998 to 2002 and co-hosted individual shows on WVTM-TV and WBMA.
In 2002, Paul Finebaum was named by The Tennessean in Nashville as one of the Southeastern Conference’s Top Power Brokers. In May 2013, Finebaum signed with ESPN to appear on its new SEC Network beginning in 2014.
Paul Finebaum’s books include his popular I Hate… series, The Worst of Paul Finebaum, and Finebaum Said. In July 2009, The Orlando Sentinel named Paul Finebaum as one of the SEC’s 10 most powerful people.
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