1. Richard Clay Travis was born on April 6,1979 and is an American writer, lawyer, radio host and television analyst, and founder of OutKick.
27 Facts About Clay Travis
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In 1997, Clay Travis graduated from Martin Luther King Magnet at Pearl High School in Nashville.
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Clay Travis graduated from George Washington University in Washington, DC, followed by Vanderbilt University Law School in Nashville.
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Clay Travis originally worked as a lawyer in the US Virgin Islands and Tennessee.
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Clay Travis attracted media attention in late 2004 with his personal blog written while he was living in the US Virgin Islands and working for Dudley, Topper and Feuerzeig.
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Clay Travis began writing online for CBS Sports in September 2005, which for the first year was not paid.
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In 2006, Clay Travis gave up his law practice for good, and when he returned to Nashville he completed an MFA program in fiction writing at Vanderbilt University.
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Later, while writing for CBS, Clay Travis began working on a book, Dixieland Delight, where he visited the football stadiums of the 12 then-current members of the Southeastern Conference.
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In 2008, Clay Travis worked out at D1 Sports Training with NFL prospects preparing for the NFL Draft.
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Clay Travis later wrote a ten-part serial about the experience which he titled Rough Draft.
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Clay Travis later became a co-host of a sports radio talk show, 3HL, on Nashville's 104.5 The Zone with Brent Dougherty and Blaine Bishop.
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Clay Travis hosted a national sports radio show on NBC Sports.
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In 2014, Clay Travis resigned from his role on 3HL and was hired by Fox Sports for its weekly college football Saturday pre-game show.
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Clay Travis started a national weekly television show, started a daily Outkick the Show broadcast on Periscope and Facebook, and began a national radio show with Fox Sports Radio in 2016.
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In 2015, Clay Travis was called out by DeMarcus Cousins for a 2010 prediction he had made that Cousins would be arrested within the next five years.
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In 2018, Clay Travis began a daily sports gambling TV show for Fox Sports on Fox Sports 1.
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Clay Travis began a daily sports radio show on Nashville's 104.5 The Zone, 3HL, in 2010.
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In 2016, Clay Travis voted for Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party.
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Clay Travis was hired to work on US Representative Jim Cooper's 2002 congressional campaign but was fired for wrecking Cooper's wife's car.
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On September 15,2017, Clay Travis appeared as a guest on CNN, with anchor Brooke Baldwin, to discuss free speech, specifically whether ESPN personality Jemele Hill should be fired for calling Donald Trump a "white supremacist" and stating that police officers are "modern-day slave catchers" on her personal Twitter page.
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Clay Travis stated that it would be bad policy on ESPN's part to fire Hill for her private comments, just as it was bad policy when ESPN fired Curt Schilling for comments he made regarding transgender bathrooms on his personal Facebook page.
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On September 20,2017, Clay Travis announced he was considering running as an Independent for US Senator of Tennessee in the 2018 election if incumbent Bob Corker decided not to run.
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When Nike released an advertisement with Colin Kaepernick in 2018, Clay Travis denounced the move and claimed it would destroy Nike's reputation and stock.
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Clay Travis suggested that some advocates for mitigation measures to slow the spread were "rooting for the virus to triumph".
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On October 30,2020, Clay Travis said that he would be voting for Donald Trump in that year's presidential election.
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Clay Travis said it would be the first time he had ever voted for a Republican for president.
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Clay Travis's wife, Lara, is a Vanderbilt Law School graduate and practicing attorney as well as a former Tennessee Titans cheerleader.