Author: Dan Wolken, USA TODAY

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

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

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

If Jim Phillips doesn’t soon enter the ring to brawl for what’s left in college athletics, the ACC may find itself among realignment’s big losers.

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.

With USC and UCLA abandoning their West Coast roots for the Big Ten, college athletics is headed for a future as an entity existing purely for profit.

Nobody’s interests are served thinking Serena Williams can win seven consecutive matches against the world’s best players to get a 24th Grand Slam.

Playing her first competitive singles match in a year, seven-time Wimbledon champion Serena Williams lost 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7) against Harmony Tan.