Posted on 08/04/2026 5:37:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Outkick founder Clay Travis on Monday challenged the defending Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) champions, the Las Vegas Aces, to play a boys’ high school basketball team, offering to pay the winners $10 million.
This offer significantly increases the $1 million wager Travis initially proposed in 2023, which was rejected by the Aces.
“Important announcement: I am upping my offer, $10 million dollars for a head-to-head basketball game between the defending WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces and a boy’s high school state title team of my choice,” Travis posted on X Monday. “If the Aces beat my team, I will give them $10 million.”
Travis stated in a subsequent post that he will pay the boys’ team the same amount to distribute among the players, with any pay-per-view profits donated to the Tunnel 2 Towers charity, which provides mortgage free homes to families of deceased soldiers, police, and first responders.
“This will be the most money ever paid to win a single basketball game,” he wrote. “A modern day battle of the sexes. $10 million to the winning team.”
Travis later stipulated he would offer the same amount to the WNBA all-star team in a match-up against high school boys.
When asked who would be the odds-on favorite for such a match-up, X’s AI GROK, replied: “A top boys high school state title team would be heavy favorites over the Aces.”
Post-puberty male advantages in strength, speed, vertical, and explosiveness create a major mismatch against even elite WNBA skill and IQ.
Estimated odds roughly HS boys -1500 to -2000 / Aces +900 to +1400 (Aces ~5-15% win probability), consistent with prior sportsbook projections for similar matchups.
As of Monday afternoon, the Aces had not accepted the offer, and the game remained hypothetical.
Travis also announced on Monday his intention of creating what he called “the most inclusive team in @wnba history.”
“The Nashville Balls. A 100% trans organization — men finally breaking the glass ceiling in women’s sports!”
“Clay is the king of putting his money where his mouth is,” said former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines on X. “What do you say to having the most inclusive team in league history, @WNBA?” she asked. “If you decline the offer, you’re bigoted transphobes btw.”
The conservative activist has recently faced fierce opposition from the pro-trans crowd for attending contentious pro-Sophie Cunningham rallies before WNBA games to show support for the Indiana Fever star’s stance against biological males competing against women in sports.
Cunningham currently stands alone in the league in speaking up for women against biological males invading women’s sports.
In response to the latest woke WNBA coach to support “transgenders” in women’s sports, Travis doubled down on starting an all trans WNBA team.
“I am not kidding about this. I am prepared to buy a @wnba expansion franchise and locate them in Nashville,” Travis insisted on X. “I pledge to have a 100 percent trans team, all men who identify as women. I will also employ a 100 percent trans coaching staff. Most inclusive team in history!”
Or as Camille Paglia says, “There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper”
“About this Quote
Paglia’s line lands like a cold splash: it refuses the comforting idea that history’s gender gap is merely a bookkeeping error. By pairing “female Mozart” with “female Jack the Ripper,” she builds a deliberately grotesque symmetry. The provocation is the point. Genius, in her framing, is not a polite merit badge withheld from women; it’s an extreme, high-variance phenomenon that also produces monsters. If you want the outliers at the top, you have to accept the outliers at the bottom.
The subtext is a broadside against a certain kind of cultural progress narrative - the belief that equal opportunity should automatically yield equal distribution of “greatness” across groups. Paglia’s underlying bet is biological and temperamental: that male risk-taking, aggression, and obsessive single-mindedness are statistically more common, and that these traits can metabolize into either sublime art or grotesque violence. Mozart and Ripper become rhetorical bookends for the same engine: transgressive drive.’
I watched that match. To this day I am convinced Riggs was paid a large chunk of money to throw that match. Watching him "play," he looked as if he wasn't even trying.
Aftermath & Claims: Opinions are mixed on Reddit regarding later allegations from a 2013 report claiming Riggs threw the match to clear mob debts, but King has firmly maintained that he played to win and did not tank
Love the loge, especially the correct number of balls, and the net with no outlet; kind of like a sack.
The boys wouldn’t take it. They know they will win, and get $10,000,000 and tons of publicity. College scholarships
“Ummm .... nobody said Clay Travis is Rush Limbaugh”
Yes, but some people might actually get the idea that he is worth listening to.
Good reply...
T has adverse reactions in some people...
Give T to females and the same adverse reactions can occur.
The thing is, without T and all of its downsides human society would not exist....
About the only time a male gets to see the world without the powerful mental effects of T are in the refractory period just after orgasm... if we understood the mechanism of this we could use it to good result. This refractory period shuts down sexual drive and is likely a mammalian protective reflex to shut down mating drive once it is no longer helpful.
Paglia is my favorite lesbian feminist.
Bobby Riggs wasn’t a tennis player, he was a hustler. His hustle just happened to be tennis.
He was Amarillo Slim with an aluminum Head tennis racket.
https://marylandgolfcamps.com/won-a-bet-hit-golf-ball-on-frozen-lake.html
Riggs was 55 years old so the bloom was off the rose but he was presented with the opportunity for the score of his life. The only problem was there was more money to be made by losing than by winning.
The numbers speak for themselves.
Regardless whether he threw the match to pay off the mob, if “doze guyz” had ever got an inkling that Riggs had taken a dive, it would have greatly diminished the chances for his continued good health, so there was no option but to maintain the façade.
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