In Colorado, Kevin Lytle in a front-page piece reports the home of the Colorado State football team "will be Canvas Stadium." The stadium's naming rights were sold in a 15-year, $37.7M deal to Public Service Credit Union in April, after the stadium "went without a name its first year." Despite the deal being signed, the actual naming of the stadium "was put on hold for weeks due to PSCU's pending rebranding effort" (Ft. Collins COLORADOAN, 6/6).
DEMOLITION DERBY: In Oklahoma City, Scott Wright notes the USA Softball HOF Stadium's renovation Phase III will "do away with the portable buildings being used as ticket booths, and the iron gates the fans pass through when they enter the Women's College World Series." Those will "give way to a rock and brick facade with new ticket windows and entrances that lead into a modernized concourse." Demolition work and new construction on the outer entrance and press box area will begin around July 1, and will be "wrapped up in time" for the '19 Women's College World Series (OKLAHOMAN, 6/6).
DEVIL IN THE DETAILS: In Phoenix, Doug Haller noted Arizona State officials in December "decided to remove the wall that had blocked off the upper rows of Wells Fargo Arena," and it was "seen as a temporary move designed to increase arena capacity." But ASU AD Ray Anderson said that the wall is "not part of the program's future." ASU this season "set a home attendance record, averaging 10,603 fans." The removal of the wall -- erected in '10 to "help make the arena more intimate -- added more than 3,000 seats" (AZCENTRAL.com, 6/5).
