It's just 42 days now until the National Lacrosse League opens its eighteenth season at a brand-new arena in Glendale, Arizona, and finally, it appears we have a name for the host team.

After several weeks of fumbling over a name that doesn't impinge on anyone else's trademarks, Arizona Lacrosse has settled on the name "Sting," the Arizona Republic reported today.

"Everything's in a name and logo, and you want something with a connection to the region," Phoenix Coyotes president Douglas Moss told the Republic's Pat Flannery. The NHL's Coyotes operate the lacrosse team under a partnership agreement.

The selection of a name, which becomes official next week (as does that of a logo and colors), ends a strange journey in which management wavered between several choices, including Arizona Sting (a name also used by an Amateur Athletic Union girls basketball team) and Arizona Scorpions (also the name of a deaf softball team).

The latter name also reportedly drew some attention from Major League Baseball, which operates an Arizona Fall League franchise called the Scottsdale Scorpions.

The Republic does not explain what measures, if any, were taken in order to share the name "Sting" between an amateur club and a men's professional lacrosse franchise, a source of confusion earlier this week.

"We are not associated with [the Coyotes]," Lawrence Alonzo, president and chief executive officer of the AAU's Arizona Sting, told The Lacrosse Journal on Tuesday. "However, my girls’ basketball club is incorporated in Arizona so I am not sure how they will be able to keep their name."

The easy answer is that "Arizona Sting" was never trademarked through the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the AAU club is incorporated as the Arizona Sting Girls Basketball Club -- allowing for distinction between itself and, say, Arizona Sting Professional Lacrosse.

The real answer, though, may require earning a juris doctorate or paying a hefty retainer fee. Stay tuned to see how this one plays out.

The NLL's Sting relocated from Columbus this offseason, where it played three years as the Landsharks. Plagued by poor attendance and hobbled by money woes just about since day one, the Landsharks came close to suspending operations more than once.