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Will Cain Country

From the Vault: How Woke Politics Ruined Sports (ft. Clay Travis)

Will Cain Country

FOX News Podcasts

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News, Sports News

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On this “Best Of” Friday sports edition of ‘Will Cain Country,’ Outkick Founder and Author of ‘Balls: How Trump, Young Men, and Sports Saved America’ Clay Travis joins Will to revisit some of the most insane intrusions of identity politics into sports over the last 10 to 15 years, as documented in his recently published book. Will and Clay compare their accounts of Woke culture’s slow creep into sports during their time at mainstream sports outlets, from Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the National Anthem and the push for transgender inclusion in sports, all the way to the ongoing course correction we're seeing today. Subscribe to ‘Will Cain Country’ on YouTube here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Watch Will Cain Country!⁠⁠⁠ Follow ‘Will Cain Country’ on X (⁠⁠⁠@willcainshow⁠⁠⁠), Instagram (⁠⁠⁠@willcainshow⁠⁠⁠), TikTok (⁠⁠⁠@willcainshow⁠⁠⁠), and Facebook (⁠⁠⁠@willcainnews⁠⁠⁠) Follow Will on X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@WillCain⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Wilcane. Welcome to Wilcane country, and we're taking a little time away,

0:16.1

but that doesn't mean the conversation stops. Today, we pulled together a best of show,

0:19.9

moments that cut through the noise, sparked real debate, made you reach out. It's a solid snapshot of what we've

0:26.3

been doing on this program. Let's get to it. Clay Travis has a brand new book out. It's entitled

0:31.4

How Trump Young Men and Sports Saved America. Balls. It was fun to talk to Clay. Our careers walked down the same

0:40.7

path together. And they walked down a path of the most insane years in sports. And Clay's cataloged this

0:48.8

moment and how we overcame it, how we came out the other side through roughly 2014 to 2022. And it was really

0:58.3

fun to talk with Clay about all of the moments during that time, which will blow your mind. If you

1:02.7

can't remember, we couldn't catalog at all in one 40-minute conversation because the insanity

1:06.4

was on a weekly basis from Bubba Wallace to Michael Sam. And it can't be forgotten. And that's

1:17.0

Clay's goal with this book. So we went down this path together one more time. We also,

1:22.6

by the way, broke down who's going to win, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Texas Georgia. We hope you enjoy this conversation with the host of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, Clay Travis.

1:32.6

What's up, Clay?

1:34.1

How are you? I'm going to go ahead and hold the cover up. I appreciate that introduction.

1:39.5

I'm doing great. We just moved into a new studio.

1:42.8

So there may be a little bit of Bell, a little bit of issues, but so far so good.

1:48.5

No, we'll be good.

1:49.8

Yeah, I want to talk about the book, Balls, How Trump, Young Men, and Sports Saved America.

1:56.1

In the book, you focus on a lot of events over roughly the past decade that led sports,

2:03.6

the sports media industrial complex, the broader conversation down a path,

2:08.4

and how ultimately we kind of began to emerge out of it.

2:12.2

So let's start with where you think it started.

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