In 2006, he was the head coach and general manager of Major League Lacrosse's Chicago Machine.
Prior to becoming the team's first head coach Finneran had played in the MLL.
His brother Brian Finneran, a former director of catering at the "21" Club and Tavern on the Green, is a well known event producer in New York City.
[1] Finneran attended Holy Trinity Diocesan High School on Long Island, where he led the lacrosse team to its first-ever winning season, as well as a Nassau-Suffolk Catholic League title, in 1982.
Finneran was inducted into the Ohio Wesleyan Athletics Hall of Fame as a member of the class of 2018.