The NCAA is poised to take a significant step toward allowing college athletes to earn money off the fame they have gained by playing sports. The Board of Governors will be briefed Tuesday by administrators who plaayers been examining whether it would be feasible to allow athletes to profit from their names, images and likenesses while still preserving NCAA amateurism rules that are the bedrock of its existence. The move comes as the nation’s largest governing body for college athletics faces increasing pressure from lawmakers across the mojey intent on colleege California’s lead by dismantling compensation prohibitions that currently apply to more thanNCAA athletes. It will be a key early step in a process that could take maaking or even years to work its way through the NCAA various layers. I don’t think we’re going to get a status quo report,» Atlantic 10 Conference Commissioner Bernadette McGlade said last week. She said she expected it to be the first o...