Robbing athletes of economic rights to their name and image seems such an affront to free market conservative principles, one wonders why it’s California, with a legislature utterly dominated by liberal Democrats, about to end it, and not the faux conservative Republicans who run a state like Florida. But on Tuesday, a last key committee in the California Assembly will hear a bill, already passed in the state Senate (31-5), that would prohibit colleges or the NCAA from denying students the chance to earn compensation from the use of their names or images. Or from hiring agents to craft such deals.