I thought about writing a column for Tuesday about Citigroup's $20 million per year naming rights deal with the Mets, which still is in place despite 52,000 pending layoffs and now a government bailout. I changed my mind and decided to write about the Jets and Giants instead. No worries. ...

from Huffington Post  the following are the wods of Rep. Elijah Cummings. After reading yesterday morning that Citigroup--which has already received $25 billion in bailout money--is adamant in maintaining its $400 million naming rights to the new New York Mets stadium, I was shocked ...

Selling the naming rights for your stadium sounds all well and good on paper. For just the cost of changing your team stationery, and perhaps the derision of your fanbase, you can pull in tens of millions of dollars each year. And in most cases, it’s pretty painless. But nothing’s ...