U. of Phoenix gets stadium naming rights
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The University of Phoenix, the nation's largest private university, will pay $154.5 million over 20 years for naming rights on the Arizona Cardinals' new stadium.
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Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony  Williams on Wednesday signed a nearly $1 billion stadium  funding package, clearing the way for the city to begin work on  a ballpark for a Major League Baseball team.
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Major League Baseball's Washington, D.C. franchise finally  got a name Monday, nearly two months after the team relocated  from Montreal. Team officials, including president Tony  Tavares, also unveiled a color scheme for the team, which is  red, white and blue.
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Some fans think 44-year-old Candlestick Park is already a dinosaur. Now the San Francisco 49ers&#39; home stadium has the name to match.
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According to the deal, the new 60,000-seater ground at Ashburton Grove will be named the Emirates Stadium. The contract also makes Emirates the Gunners&#39; shirt sponsor for eight years - starting in 2006-07.
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So, I was thinking, maybe the University of Miami would want to change its nickname, and soon. I know, I know, this is not funny to anyone in the state of Florida.
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SBC Communications has announced it is finalizing an agreement that will pay each school $530,000 for the naming rights to the annual Michigan-Ohio State season-ending showdown for the next two years.
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----------------------------------------------- GLENDALE, Arizona (Ticker) - Mike Johnson missed most of last season after undergoing shoulder surgery, but that didn&#39;t stop the Phoenix Coyotes from giving him the veteran right wing a three-year contract ...
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Wasn't he supposed to be in Phoenix by now? Wasn't Tommy Heinsohn going to start wearing black to all the games in honor of the departed Walter McCarty?
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ASHINGTON, DC - City and team officials announced at a Monday press conference at Union Station that the Washington, DC, baseball team will be named the Nationals.
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Corporate donors who couldn't afford to pony up millions a year to affix their brand names to Gillette Stadium or the FleetCenter might consider this: For a mere $200,000, they can now buy the naming rights to a performance studio at a Worcester radio station.
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Major League Baseball Player&#39;s Association executive director Donald Fehr answers reporters&#39; questions at a news conference during union meetings Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2004, at the Royal Palms Resort in Phoenix.
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The Florida Marlins and two local governments have ironed out the financial details of a $515 million proposal that would give the team a new 37,000-seat ballpark on the site of the Orange Bowl.
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WASHINGTON -- The new team name of the Montreal Expos is expected to be revealed at Union Station today at a noon ceremony. Several reports indicate that the club will be called the Washington Nationals.
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When a regional phone company in Arkansas paid to slap its name on Jacksonville Municipal Stadium, the price seemed steep. Was it really worth $6.2 million for some signs on a building in a small city that got its first major league sports team just two years earlier? Naming rights were a growing business when the 10-year deal was struck ...
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The FleetCenter sits in the country's fifth-biggest media market and plays host to events ranging from the Democratic National Convention to the Women's Final Four. But when it comes to renaming the arena, the deal is likely to cost less than many of the other naming-rights contracts signed over the last several years, most notably the $9.3 million a year ...
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ARSENAL are to name their new ground Emirates Stadium after clinching a Â£100million sponsorship deal with an Arab airline. And Gunners chairman Peter Hill-Wood admitted it was an offer they simply couldn&#39;t refuse.