Miscellany

Chevron’s Candleslick Park? Schwab Schtadium? Barry Bonds hitting the ball out of The Gap instead of into it?

All those are possibilities if private companies come up with $1 million to $2 million a year San Francisco wants for the renovation of Candlestick Park, which will play host to the 1999 Super Bowl.

The city is offering to rent the stadium’s name to the highest-bidding corporate sponsor to spruce it up beforehand.

The Albuquerque (N.M.) Journal reported today that negotiations on a contract between ESPN and the WAC have begun for the conference to replace the Big West on the network’s “Big Monday” telecasts.

The Pac-10 on Monday declined ESPN’s offer of a $3-million, four-year, 23-game schedule.

The Pac-10 has signed a four-year package with Liberty Sports Network, which owns Prime Sports. Instead of games starting at 9 p.m. for ESPN’s midnight Eastern game, the deal allows the Pac-10 to start at 6:30 or 7:30 p.m.

Police in Milan, Italy, arrested a second teenager in the stabbing death of a Genoa soccer fan, a killing that sparked riots, touched off widespread debate on fan violence and brought a suspension of all national sports events next weekend.