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Many sports venues have sold the rights to name the location and enjoyed significant financial rewatds.The Church in Rome has faced and will face claims for compensation for priestly misconduct. Why doesn't the Church build a fund to pay for priestly pedophilia, past and future, by selling the naming rights for the next Pope?There are all sorts of organizations that would pay big bucks to have it's name mentioned every time the Pope's name was used. Some examples:Pope Leo Sandinista,Pope Urban Total,Pope Clement Toyota,Pope Pius Sony,Pope Leo al-Qaeda,Pope Gregory Teresa Heinz,Pope Urban Nextel, Pope Pius Trump.The alternatives are endless and...

<p>LOS ANGELES — It’s home to fun, sun and Hollywood glamour -- and now the city of Los Angeles may be lending its name and image to the highest bidder.</p> <p>Leaders of the cash-strapped city are considering selling the naming rights for Los Angeles to a variety of products. Coke or Pepsi could be the city’s official soft drink, for instance, and Lexus or BMW the official automobile.</p>

06/17/2003 12:00 PM ET Citizens Bank enters 25-year naming rights partnership with Phillies PHILADELPHIA, PA, June 17, 2003 -- The Phillies and Citizens Bank -- one of the nation's 20 largest commercial bank holding companies -- have entered a 25-year partnership that includes naming the team's New Ballpark, Citizens Bank Park. David Montgomery, General Partner and President for the Phillies, and Stephen D. Steinour, Chairman & CEO of Citizens Bank, made the joint announcement at a noon press conference located adjacent to the New Ballpark that will open in April 2004. "This long-term partnership with Citizens Bank is a clear...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The naming-rights business in professional sports, which hit a peak in the late 1990s, isn't as robust as it used to be. In the most recent case, as the Major League Baseball season begins this week, the Houston Astros are still looking for someone to replace bankrupt energy company Enron Corp. as the naming-rights holder to its stadium. "The doom has occurred," said Brandon Steiner, of Steiner Sports Marketing, Larchmont, N.Y. "The hits, like Enron's bankruptcy, take away from the franchise and the value. In essence, teams are starting to realize that they're sharing their name...