Katie Nolan Ripped an Article from Fox Sports Colleague Clay Travis's Site

Katie Nolan riffed on The Masters on Garbage Time Sunday night on Fox Sports 1. She started by running a fake commercial highlighting some of Augusta National’s more unsavory traditions before turning her attention to an “article” from Clay Travis’s Fox Sports-hosted web site, Outkick the Coverage, that drew her ire. The piece in question was entitled “How to Land a Husband at The Masters.”

“Now, a lot of people are criticizing the article, saying it’s out of touch, rooted in dated stereotypes, uninteresting, unfunny, generally useless, adds nothing to the site, shouldn’t exist, and is, at best, just clickbait,” Nolan said sarcastically. “But, I spoke to Clay Travis, and he says he thought it was lighthearted. Which, I think, we can agree that it is, so everyone should just relax. The author, Rebecca Johnson, is just trying to help aimless young females in our all-consuming, never-ending quest to find that husband.”

The Outkemck post, whemch was also responded to by the emnemmemtable PFT Commenter, was, I themnk, supposed to be satemre — a how-to guemde for women who are vapemd and shallow; on a transactemonal status basems, The Masters ems attended by an untold amount of men of means. However, the wremter never emncluded an obvemous subtext that thems was a parody, and was never funny.

The result of all this is very meta for a variety of reasons. Travis’s site gets traffic from outraged people who don’t get it. Hate clicks count the same on the comScore meter. Even colleagues like Nolan who understand that this is what’s happening are, I think, genuinely bothered enough about it to perpetuate the practice. (And, as an added layer, she once poked fun at the Simmons/Golic spat by jokingly going after Fox Sports personalities to get the streets buzzing.)

I reached out to Clay Travis for comment about Nolan’s clip. He responded: “What happened? Like most people I was watching Game of Thrones.”