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Riley Gaines (0:34)
Unless you've been living under a rock, then you know that the NCAA is drowning in problems. And time and time again, they have managed to land on the wrong side of nearly all of them. Name, image and likeness, eligibility rules, the transfer portal, men and women's sports. The list goes longer each and every day and leadership continues to fall short. Thankfully, we have a president who is committed to saving college athletics. He recently signed an executive. We're going to talk about that, what this looks like. We're going to talk about Megan Rapinoe, we're talking about Gavin Newsom's wife and the liability that she is. And we are talking about TDS Trump hysteria surrounding what is going on in Iran. All of that with Clay Travis. You don't want to miss it. Listen here. Well, Clay, thanks for joining the Riley Gaines Show. Look, you and me, we are kind of like unicorns where we are both Nashville natives. And with that comes being Vanderbilt fan, which has historically been a pretty, a pretty crummy thing. But this year, especially with both football and basketball, pretty good. I wanted to ask you about something that I saw in the news recently. You giving $10 million to Vanderbilt law. Talk about that.
Clay Travis (1:47)
Well, a lot of that credit goes to my wife. But as many of us out there, including your husband Louie, have been fortunate enough to meet women. We were in college or law school. I think I told you this before, I don't think I've certainly said it on, on a show, but in 2001, were you born yet? In 2001, by the way, what year were you born?
Riley Gaines (2:11)
One years old.
Clay Travis (2:12)
All right, you were one year old in Nashville. You were a baby in Nashville, basically a toddler. And I was starting at Vanderbilt Law School and we were setting up intramural teams and, and I was one of the, one of the guys in charge of the co ed softball team and we were first year law students and I went around Riley to all of the prettiest girls in the, in the class, including my wife, and recruited them to come play on the co ed softball team. So I met my wife first Year law school, recruiting, co ed, softball players, and we were mediocre in terms of Vanderbilt athletics, intramural performance. But we had a lot of, I think we had several marriages that actually came out of that team and one of them was me and my wife, Laura. And so we went on to graduate from Vanderbilt Law School. We've had a lot of good fortune, thankfully, and I've spent a lot of time thinking about what I can do, in addition to what we do for a living, to talk about the things that, that we care about. And one of the things that I really care about is educating good, young, smart lawyers who are going to be committed to the idea that you have to defend all sorts of perspectives, right, left, middle of the road. You just want to be the best, most zealous advocate that you can be. And so we gave $10 million to the law school for First Amendment principles. My wife wanted to also help people who had children to be able to afford childcare while they're getting law degrees. That mattered a lot to her. And also we wanted to be able to give back to people who have served in the military and are finishing military service by trying to get law degrees, older law school students. So we've endowed scholarships and, and different support structures that will help all those different aspects of Vanderbilt Law School and I hope will be impactful in creating, you know, generations of good lawyers to come. There are good lawyers, despite what people may hear. And I hope that Vanderbilt will be helping to produce more of them than they otherwise would if we hadn't donated this money. So my wife Laura deserves a lot of the credit. She drove the bus on getting all the details ironed out, but, but we're excited to be able to make the donation, so I hope it's going to make a substantial difference for what I think is one of the best law schools in the country to continue to be that and hopefully be a little bit better.
