Wins & Losses with Clay Travis

This week on Wins & Losses, Clay Travis is joined by Will Cain. Will and clay talk about his new job with Fox News and his time at ESPN. The two talk about Will’s upbringing in a small town in Texas, his education at Pepperdine, his experience at law school and the numerous business ventures and steps that led him to ESPN and now his current job with Fox News.

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This episode of Wins & Losses with Clay Travis features Ben Shapiro as the guest. Clay and Ben talk about his upbringing in Los Angeles as a huge die hard sports fan. Clay asks Ben about his educational upbringing, and Ben shares that he began his college career at the age of 16 at UCLA, where he wrote for the school newspaper, and later attended Harvard Law. Ben explains why he quit practicing law after 10 months, and shares the steps he took that led him to where he is today. Clay and Ben finally get into sports and how political the sports arena has gotten, touching on the NBA and China situation, and more.

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Clay Travis is joined by Missouri Senator Josh Hawley, who recently made waves for sharing the profane email he received from ESPN NBA insider Adrian Wojanrowski in response to his questioning of the NBA's agenda with their list of approved social justice messages. Senator Hawley opens up about how he got his start in politics and the problem he sees with sports becoming more and more political right before our eyes.

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This week on Wins & Losses, Clay Travis is joined by Mississippi State head football coach Mike Leach for a special edition episode to react to the new Netflix show “Tiger King.” Clay and coach Leach cover the entire storyline, and go in depth on the three main big cat owners: Joe Exotic, Doc Antle and Carole Baskin. Clay also takes to Twitter to get some questions from some of his followers about the show and Clay and coach Leach answer those questions from the audience to close things out. 

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This week on Wins & Losses, Clay Travis is joined by Penn State head football coach James Franklin. Clay and coach Franklin start from the beginning and talk about his early life growing up in Pennsylvania and his dream of playing football at Penn State. Eventually the two move along to where he got his very first coaching job at the division two level, where he made $1,500 dollars a year and loaded vending machines and bartended on the side. The two talk about his first big head coaching job at Vanderbilt, and how difficult the decision was to leave Vandy and go to where he currently coaches at Penn State, a place he has had a ton of success.

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This week on Wins & Losses Clay Travis is joined by former Baylor head football coach and current Texas high school football coach Art Briles. Clay and coach Briles discuss his coaching career, and his legendary run in Texas high school football before he ended up in the college ranks. Clay asks Briles how his interest in coaching began, and also when and how he developed his offensive system that has had so much success. Finally, Clay and coach Briles talk in great length about the off the field issues that occurred while he was at Baylor, and how those events effected him as well as other people involved around the Baylor campus and community. 

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This week on Wins & Losses, Clay Travis is joined by fellow Lock it In host Todd Fuhrman. Clay asks Todd about his life in Las Vegas and the steps he took that led him there. The two get into how Todd’s passion for sports gambling began, with some great stories involving Todd and his father. Todd speaks about his educational upbringing, his involvement in the game of hockey, where he played collegiately, and his early jobs he got following his graduation. Todd also explains how he went from working at a sports book to eventually becoming the TV and radio personality he is now, and how the landscape of sports media and gambling is growing at an incredible rate. 

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This week on Wins & Losses, Clay Travis is joined yet again by Dan Wetzel, this time for a special discussion regarding the Aaron Hernandez Netflix documentary. Clay asks Dan about the process of creating the documentary and what all went into it and the production of it. The two dice into a number of the aspects of Aaron Hernandez’s fascinating, tragic story, including the phone calls from prison, the different relationships in the story, the Robert Kraft testimony, and much more. 

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This week on Wins & Losses, Clay Travis is joined by Heisman Trophy winner and Titans legend Eddie George. The two talk about his upbringing just outside of Philadelphia, and his journey that led him to Fork Union Academy to attend high school. Clay asks Eddie about his decision and process to attend Ohio State, and some of his big moments he had as a Buckeye, including winning the Heisman Trophy. Eddie talks about his first time meeting Steve McNair and also about the day that Steve McNair passed away and what a difficult day that was. Clay also asks Eddie George about his fascination with Shakespeare and his future endeavors of performing Shakespeare acts. 

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This week on Wins & Losses, Clay Travis is joined by fellow Lock It In star Cousin Sal. The two dive into Cousin Sal’s life and how he got from graduating law school, to being a huge success in the entertainment industry. Clay asks Cousin Sal about his journey to becoming a writer for his cousin, Jimmy Kimmel, and the path they took together in entertainment starting with Win Ben Stein’s Money, The Man Show and eventually Jimmy Kimmel Live! They also get into how social media has changed the entertainment industry and the book Cousin Sal is currently writing. 

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