Now hosted in Charlotte, North Carolina, the show is broadcast five days a week nationally on the ESPN Radio Network and simulcast on the SEC Network, which covers the Southeastern Conference (SEC) of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA).įinebaum was born July 26, 1955, in Memphis, Tennessee, to Benjamin and Gloria Filderman Finebaum, who moved from New York to Memphis with his older sister Pam shortly before his birth. His popular call-in radio show, The Paul Finebaum Show, was based in Birmingham, Jefferson County, for more than 30 years. She would rather give you something than keep it herself.Paul Alan Finebaum (1955- ) is a top-rated sportscaster, sports radio show host, sportswriter, and author who made his name covering college football in Alabama. She was the kind of woman instead of being buried in her breast cancer wig she adored, she asked me to donate it to a cancer patient in need. The fire in her calls was always to pull for an underdog or to defend someone being unjustly attacked. “Those of you who knew her radio personality, Phyllis of Mulga, may be under the wrong impression of her character. Listeners were no stranger to Phyllis’s fiery personality on the Finebaum show, but her son says that she was more than that.

And for the last few years, she battled COPD until her fight finally ended this morning,” stated Phyllis’s son, Christopher.

She beat lung cancer, and years later she beat breast cancer. “My mother was an inspiration to anyone fighting for their lives. Phyllis’s son announced the news on Facebook Thursday morning. (WBRC) - One of the most famous callers on the Paul Finebaum show, Phyllis from Mulga, has passed away.

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