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The Riley Gaines Show

Clay Travis: Why Trump’s Executive Order Changes Sports Forever | The Riley Gaines Show

The Riley Gaines Show

Fox Media

Sports, News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.4592 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Clay Travis joins Riley Gaines for a firestorm conversation on women’s sports, NIL chaos, Trump, Gavin Newsom, and the political meltdown gripping the country. They go straight at Megan Rapinoe’s comments, the battle over fairness in women’s athletics, and why so many public figures refuse to say what’s obvious. They also break down Trump’s NIL executive order, what it means for the future of college sports, Clay’s $10 million Vanderbilt Law donation, and the growing dysfunction inside the Democrat bench heading into 2028. Comment below: Who’s right on NIL and women’s sports? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Unless you've been living under a rock, then you know that the NCAA is drowning in problems.

0:10.0

And time and time again, they have managed to land on the wrong side of nearly all of them.

0:15.0

Name image and likeness, eligibility rules, the transfer portal, men and women's sports, the list goes longer each and every day,

0:21.5

and leadership continues to fall short.

0:24.1

Thankfully, we have a president who is committed to saving college athletics.

0:28.7

He recently signed an executive order.

0:30.8

We're going to talk about that, what this looks like.

0:33.4

We're going to talk about Megan Rapino.

0:34.6

We're talking about Gavin Newsom's wife and the liability that she is.

0:38.3

And we are talking about TDS, Trump hysteria, surrounding what is going on in Iran.

0:43.5

All of that with Clay Travis.

0:44.9

You don't want to miss it.

0:45.9

Listen here.

0:47.9

Well, Clay, thanks for joining the Riley Gaines show.

0:51.3

Look, you and me, we are kind of like unicorn where we are both Nashville natives.

0:57.0

And with that comes being Vanderbilt fan, which has historically been a pretty crummy thing.

1:04.0

But this year, especially with both football and basketball, pretty good.

1:08.0

I wanted to ask you about something that I saw in the news recently,

1:12.0

you giving $10 million to Vanderbilt Law. Talk about that. Well, a lot of that credit goes to my wife,

1:19.6

but as many of us out there, including your husband, Louis, have been fortunate enough to meet

1:25.4

women when you're in college or law school together.

1:28.5

I think I told you this before.

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