FRANCHISE TRICKS & TREATS

          NFL Oilers Owner Bud Adams said he will change the name
     of his team "if the right name can be found."  He also added
     that the idea to play in Memphis was TN Gov. Don Sundquist's
     (NASHVILLE BANNER, 10/30)....The U.S. Government won't appeal
     a U.S. Tax Court decision "absolving the heirs" of Bengals
     founder Paul Brown of $40M "plus in estate tax deficiency." 
     The decision "effectively ends a 21-year crisis for the
     Browns in which the family's ownership of the Bengals was
     jeopardized" (CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, 10/30)....In MN, Charley
     Walters notes that Twins Owner Carl Pohlad "has been
     considering establishing a nonprofit charitable foundation
     ... as a way to donate the Twins to Minnesota through a
     trust" (ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS, 10/31).