About Clay & Buck

Prior to co-hosting “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show,” the Nashville native and former lawyer had a variety of jobs in sports media.
After spending 2009-2011 as a columnist for AOL FanHouse, Travis launched “Outkick the Coverage,” then an SEC-centric news and opinion blog, in July of 2011. Gaining strong traction through social media, OutKick.com became an internet phenomenon, attracting an average of two million unique visitors each month. He also co-hosted the top-rated 3HL on 104.5 The Zone in Nashville for five years.
In 2016, Clay hosted FOX Sports Radio’s industry-leading weekday morning-drive program, “Outkick the Coverage with Clay Travis,” which was broadcast on more than 350 stations nationwide.
In 2019, Travis launched “Wins & Losses with Clay Travis” on the iHeart Podcast Network. The program featured candid, in-depth conversations with the biggest names in sports, entertainment, business and beyond, who discussed their inspiring journeys to success, including their wins and losses along the way.
In 2021, Travis partnered with Buck Sexton to host “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show,” taking over the timeslot held by “The Rush Limbaugh Show” for more than three decades. Airing weekdays from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET on more than 480 stations nationwide, Travis and Sexton tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and current events with intelligence and humor.
The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network was launched in March 2023 and features a slate of news, politics and culture podcasts. The network is home to “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show podcast,” “The Tudor Dixon Podcast,” “The Karol Markowicz Show” and the “Sean Parnell Battleground Podcast.”
Travis also hosts the top-ranking “Outkick the Show” webcast, which is livestreamed on Facebook, and then turned into an audio-only podcast. Millions of fans consistently watch/listen to “Outkick the Show,” making it one of the most-watched and longest-running daily sports shows on both platforms.
Clay has written four books: “Dixieland Delight,” “On Rocky Top: A Front-Row Seat to the End of an Era,” “Republicans Buy Sneakers Too: How the Left is Ruining Sports with Politics,” and “American Playbook: A Guide to Winning Back the Country from the Democrats.”
A graduate of George Washington University as well as Vanderbilt Law School, Clay is married with three children, and lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

In addition to co-hosting “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show,” Buck hosts “Hold the Line” from 7 to 8 p.m. ET on The First, a digital-first TV network available on more than 14 platforms, including Pluto TV, STIRR, Roku, Fire TV, and others. He  also appears frequently on Fox News Channel and other outlets as a political commentator and national security analyst.

Buck previously hosted “The Buck Sexton Show,” a three-hour weekday talk radio program syndicated by Premiere Networks on more than 200 stations nationwide, in addition to iHeartRadio. He also hosted a live weekday program on iHeartRadio’s 710 WOR in New York from February 2020 through June 2021.  Throughout his radio career, he served as a guest host for “The Rush Limbaugh Show,” “The Sean Hannity Show” and “The Glenn Beck Program.”

Prior to joining Premiere Networks in February, 2017, Buck was a political commentator for CNN. During that time, he also served as national security editor for TheBlaze.com and hosted “The Buck Sexton Show” on TheBlazeTV and TheBlazeRadio.
A former CIA officer in the Counterterrorism Center (CTC) and the Office of Iraq Analysis, Buck completed tours of duty as an intelligence officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as other hotspots around the globe.  He led intelligence briefings for senior U.S. officials, including President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Buck also served in the New York Police Department (NYPD) Intelligence Division working on counterterrorism and counter-radicalization issues.
In April of 2012, Buck published his first book, Occupy: American Spring: The Making of a Revolution. In the book, he goes behind-the-scenes at Occupy Wall Street and uncovers the radical goals of the not-so-ragtag movement. In 2019, he authored The Socialism Survival Guide, indicating the trends going on in many major cities where Democratic City Halls have changed the course of their communities and how to cope in such environments.
Additionally, Buck writes for American Consequences and the Independent Chronicle, two digital publications that cover news and politics.
He also co-hosts “What Do You Really Think?” with Marc Lamont Hill, a weekly program on Quake Media that explores two different perspectives on the issues of the day.
A native of New York City, he holds a B.A. in Political Science from Amherst College.
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