New Tulane stadium overcoming red tape, has a name now

It was announced Friday that Tulane’s $55 million stadium will be called Yulman Stadium, named after Richard Yulman, a Tulane board member and owner of mattress manufacturing company Serta International. Yulman and his wife, Janet, contributed $15 million to the building of the new 25,000-seat stadium.

As of now, home Tulane football games are played in the Superdome, which, when compared with attendance for Green Wave games and Conference USA contests in general, is too cavernous a facility to create a real home-field advantage.