Author: Dan Wolken, USA TODAY

Reducing the GOAT debate to the number of Grand Slams won — effectively the strongest argument for Serena Williams — doesn’t present a full picture.

If there was any doubt that college athletes capitalizing on name, image and likeness rights would trickle down to high school, it has now arrived.

College leaders, if NIL, transfer portal and athlete’s rights are too much for you to handle, find something else to do and put grown-ups in the job.

After three events, LIV Golf players cannot possibly deny that their tour is being used to feed Donald Trump’s ego and his political ambitions.

Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff wants collegiality in college sports. That notion is woefully out of place in today’s dog-eat-dog environment.

Tom Mars, attorney who helped end draconian restrictions on athlete transfers, now sees danger in NCAA expanding it to an unlimited, unchecked right.

Maybe near-universal adoration is too comfortable for Charles Barkley, whose defiance of expectations, distaste of decorum are key to his existence.

It doesn’t seem there will be a rush for one or two mega-conferences to swallow what we’ve come to know as the Power Five. It may happen eventually.

If Nick Kyrgios is ever going to do something in tennis that transcends the money, controversy and unrealized expectations, it’s got to be now.