Longtime SEC Network host and Alabama sports voice Paul Finebaum is weighing a run for Alabama’s open U.S. Senate in 2026 — and in doing so has revealed that ESPN once blocked him from interviewing President Donald Trump ahead of the 2019 Alabama–LSU game in Tuscaloosa.

Finebaum told OutKick’s Clay Travis that he lined up the interview through contacts in Washington and was prepared to travel to the White House days before Trump attended the top-five showdown in Bryant-Denny Stadium.

But, Finebaum also revealed ESPN executives “killed it.”

“I was devastated,” he recalls, “it wasn’t about politics. It was about the President of the United States coming to the biggest college football game of the year. But they told me we are not allowed to mix politics with sports.”

“Our producer said,

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