What about the inverse, has any city sued because a team used their name, but wasn't in their city?

I always wondered why Phoenix never sued the Arizona Cardinals over that. I mean would you want your name tied to that team?

As Jay Leno pointed out, is having Los Angeles in your team name really that important? How well did it work out for the Raiders and Rams?

I'm surprised that the rest of the teams in the majors haven't jumped on this kind of naming convention. With the expansive geographic marketing gimicks and giving broadcasters everywhere so many extra words to stumble over. I mean, how about the New York Mets of Queens? The New York Yankees of the Bronx? The Washington Nationals of D.C.? The Texas Rangers of Arlington? Or my personal favorite: The Los Angeles Dodgers of Los Angeles?

The New Jersey Giants & Jets, as well as the Auburn Hills Pistons, are already appropriating other city's names for their teams. And I hope they all get slapped down for it.

Well, in the Angels' case, they were originally the Los Angeles Angels so they're just saying they moved.

If other teams adopted the same naming conventions, you would have to the Brooklyn Dodgers of Los Angeles, the New York Giants of San Francisco, and the Philadelphia Athletics of Oakland via Kansas City. The Montreal Expos of Washington, DC, works as well.

See, I think teams shouldn't stop there. We all know about corporate sponsorship for stadia...why not for the teams themselves? We could have the Chevy Tigers, or the Anheiser-Busch Cardinals. Better yet, multiple combinations that riff on a theme a la Benjamin Kabak: The Brooklyn Brewery Dodgers of Los Angeles, or the New York Life Giants of San Francisco. The Boston Market & Milwaukee's Best Braves of Atlanta? Well, maybe that one's too much.

Any post on Dr. James Andrews? I recently heard that the renouned doctor has had a heart attack.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/3576497.html (Third Story - on Bagwell update).
Though this is a baseball post, I believe that it is necessary to make note of someone who has a behind the scenes impact of all professional sports. We are keeping you in our thoughts and prayers.

Heh, if having LA in a name is so important, maybe we will see the "Los Angeles Rams of St. Louis".

Re: Corporate sponsorship of baseball teams. Don't at least some teams in Japan already do that?

Teams in Japan are owned by companies and are really part of the company.

Yes, all the teams in Japan are known by their corporate names. The Yomiuri Giants play in Tokyo; Yomiuri is a newspaper. The Nippon Ham Fighters don't fight pork products in Nippon; they are the Fighters for the Nippon Ham company.