Clay Travis Is in Another Fight Over ESPN, the First Amendment, and 'Boobs'

Clay Travis is in another fight over ESPN and “boobs,” but this time the boobs are just dudes at the sports house of the mouse.

I interviewed Travis last year about some hot-button issues, mostly about dudes playing in women's sports. Travis was well known even before he appeared on CNN, and when asked about what he believed, it was two things:

Travis has never shied from offering opinions that legacy media didn’t like. Travis welcomes his critics. The more, the better.
Five years ago, Clay Travis appeared on CNN with host Brooke Baldwin. It was during that interview that Travis said that he believed in two things with absolute certainty: “the First Amendment and Boobs.” Baldwin was gobsmacked. Travis’ visibility was already rising, but that turn of phrase seemed to take his media exposure to a new level. CNN announced that Travis was henceforth banned from their news channel. Predictably, The Washington Post was offended as well. Oh, well. Thanks for the exposure, CNN, and WaPo. The more they complained, the bigger Travis got. The genie was out of the bottle.

Since that interview, CNN has banned him, and ESPN brass likely hate him. So it is of no surprise that when Travis interviewed an ESPN guy for his site, OutKick, the boobs at ESPN had a fit. The interview was with Paul Finebaum. ESPN is fine with Finebaum, as long as he keeps his mouth shut about being... a Republican.

SEC Network host Paul Finebaum hasn't appeared on ESPN since he sat down last week for a wide-ranging interview OutKick's Clay Travis that touched on a possible Senate run and the killing of a potential interview with President Trump.
Finebaum, who appears on a wide array of ESPN programming on a weekly basis throughout the college football season, has not made several of his regularly scheduled appearances since the interview dropped last week.
"Disney/ESPN has removed Finebaum from appearing on ESPN since his OutKick interview expressing interest in running as a Republican for senate in Alabama," Travis tweeted. "ESPN has canceled all network appearances on all shows, including some that have occurred for a decade plus."

As Sage Steele found out, being a conservative on ESPN is fine, as long as you don’t tell anyone. After Steele made comments that “outed” her as a conservative, she was shown the door. Of course, ESPN denied that it has a bias against conservatives. Weird since it's pretty obvious that the Mickey Mouses at ESPN do indeed have a leftist bias.

After Finebaum was interviewed, he was disappeared from ESPN. His regular slots were filled by someone else. All a coincidence, I guess. Clay wasn't having it.

Travis said this:

Per sources: Disney/ESPN has removed @finebaum from appearing on @ESPN since his @outkick interview expressing interest in running as a Republican for senate in Alabama. ESPN has canceled all network appearances on all shows, including some that have occurred for a decade plus.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) October 6, 2025

OutKick set the stage for an ESPN PR boob to call Travis a liar:

However, he was notably absent from Sunday morning's edition of SportsCenter, a guest spot which Finebaum has made regularly since joining ESPN in 2014.
OutKick reached out to ESPN on Monday for comment, but they did not immediately respond. A Vice President in the ESPN PR department, Bill Hofheimer, posted on social media that Travis' report was "totally false."

This is not true at all. The below is TOTALLY FALSE. https://t.co/nmnBA9mj13
— bill hofheimer (@bhofheimer_espn) October 6, 2025

Clay has a response from The Gulf of America:

A Gulf of America message for professional liars ⁦@bhofheimer_espn⁩ and ⁦@RobertIger⁩ on their @finebaum suspension. Now back to the beach! pic.twitter.com/s7rZc2HLh7
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) October 6, 2025

Finebaum being muted? Is he about to be shown the door because he spoke about his conservatism? Don't believe your lying eyes — believe the boobs at ESPN.

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