By Mark Schipper George Kliavkoff, a major operator in digital-television and a sports-entertainment executive at MGM Resorts International, was hired in the late spring of 2021 to replace Larry Scott as commissioner of the Pac-12 Conference. Kliavkoff, a well-connected operator hired to take over the Pac-12, stands in front of the White House. Kliavkoff took over on the first day of July but had been meeting with the conference's membership for the previous six weeks, attemp