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RandySF

(77,664 posts) Mon Sep 29, 2025, 06:51 PM Monday

AL-SEN: ESPN analyst Paul Finebaum (R) mulls Alabama Senate campaign

ESPN analyst Paul Finebaum said he is considering leaving the sports network to run for the Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.).

In an interview with OutKick, a conservative sports outlet, Finebaum said he was mulling a campaign after “one or two people in Washington” reached out to gauge his interest in running for office.

Finebaum is a household name in Alabama, where he spent roughly three decades covering college sports in print and broadcast. His radio show was a fixture of Alabama sports coverage, especially during the heyday of the University of Alabama’s college football dynasty and intense rivalry with Auburn University.

Tuberville, the head coach at Auburn from 1999 to 2008, announced earlier this year he would not run for another Senate term and will instead run for governor. His departure has set off a scramble to find another popular Republican candidate in what should still be a safe GOP seat.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5527257-finebaum-potential-senate-candidate/

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AL-SEN: ESPN analyst Paul Finebaum (R) mulls Alabama Senate campaign (Original Post) RandySF Monday OP

Talking Heads should really be the only people allowed to run for office bucolic_frolic Monday #1

Finebaum needs to realize just because Tuberville got elected, House of Roberts Monday #2

He is an asshole and an idiot. ESPN should be ashamed to still employ him. Wiz Imp Monday #3

I think he'd be hard to beat 617Blue Monday #4

It's Alabama Polybius Monday #5

Because tuberville was so wonderful? Ilsa Monday #6

All I can say is bamagal62 Monday #7

People like Finebaum nearly ruined college football with the SEC bias AZProgressive Monday #8

bucolic_frolic

(52,556 posts)

1. Talking Heads should really be the only people allowed to run for office

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 06:52 PM

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Just because they can motor mouth doesn't make them good for democracy

House of Roberts

(6,257 posts)

2. Finebaum needs to realize just because Tuberville got elected,

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 07:01 PM

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it didn't make him qualified for the job, and he won't be either.

Wiz Imp

(7,562 posts)

3. He is an asshole and an idiot. ESPN should be ashamed to still employ him.

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Mon Sep 29, 2025, 07:17 PM

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617Blue

(2,059 posts)

4. I think he'd be hard to beat

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Mon Sep 29, 2025, 07:35 PM

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He's MAGA but he comes off as measured. Let's face it, we need them to run a Roy Moore to win there. I'm hoping they nom a full mooner.

Polybius

(20,920 posts)

5. It's Alabama

Reply to 617Blue (Reply #4)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 08:47 PM

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Any Republican is hard to beat. Even Moore made it close.

Ilsa

(63,350 posts)

6. Because tuberville was so wonderful?

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 08:49 PM

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I wouldn't trust Finebaum to do what's right for Alabama.

bamagal62

(4,180 posts)

7. All I can say is

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 08:56 PM

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OMG.

AZProgressive

(29,740 posts)

8. People like Finebaum nearly ruined college football with the SEC bias

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Mon Sep 29, 2025, 09:21 PM

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SEC is no doubt good at football but he would often criticize the other leagues especially with the Big 12 -- I remember he discouraged them from adding Houston the year after Houston beat Oklahoma and Texas hired their coach when the Big 12 still had Oklahoma & Texas. The Big 12 eventually added Houston later. He also made critical comments about the Pac 12 when the last year they had 12 teams they were probably the best conference top to bottom after they admittedly had some down years but there is a good reason why teams rarely went undefeated in the Pac 12 with teams like Oregon dominating the Big Ten outside of Ohio State. Now ABC should almost rename themselves the SEC Network on Saturdays.

I realize this post has little to do with politics but I imagine his politics are just as bad if not worse than his sports commentary.

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