Last year was a big one for lawsuits involving the NCAA and showed the potential for tremendous changes in intercollegiate sports. For example, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that players from the Northwestern University football team are employees and, therefore, can form a union. A federal court in California ruled that college football and basketball players are permitted to earn a share of licensing revenues from the use of their name, image and likeness (O’Bannon v. NCAA). And the NCAA agreed to …