November 10, 2000

NCAA Panel Endorses Relaxed Rules on Amateur Status

By WELCH SUGGS

College athletes could take out loans based on their future earnings potential, be paid for their performances at the Olympic Games, and earn money for giving lessons beginning next year, under new rules endorsed last month by the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I Management Council.

At its quarterly meeting in Indianapolis, the council, a panel of athletics administrators that is the second-highest voice of authority in Division I,

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