Could Mariucci Arena be called something else soon? According to a MinnPost.com article from Friday this very idea could be under consideration. The story was written by Marshall H. Tanick, a Twin Cities attorney who graduated from the U’s journalism school and who was the founder and former president of the journalism school’s Alumni Society. His Friday post was about the renaming of Minnesota’s journalism school for alum, mega donor, and media giant Stanley Hubbard. However, it also contained a nugget that is much more pertinent to our readers:
The Athletic Department, in the midst of its massive $190 million "Nothing Short of Greatness" fundraising drive, is about to sell naming rights to the hockey arena, which has been named since its construction in 1993 for John Mariucci.