MGM drops ‘Mirage’ from name: Let the speculation begin

 Well, that didn’t take long.

About the time the news that MGM Mirage shareholders had officially voted to change the company name to MGM Resorts International, rumors began circulating anew that the company was in the process of selling the Mirage resort to a willing buyer. (Most often repeated name: Treasure Island owner Phil Ruffin.)

According to a story by the Review-Journal’s Howard Stutz, the Securities and Exchange Commission still must approve of the name change. That formality out of the way, MGM Resorts International will go forward and confuse only gamblers of a certain generation with the gaming company Resorts International, 1960s developers of Paradise Island and the first casino company to open when gambling was legalized in Atlantic City.

And let’s not confuse MGM Resorts International with Sun International, or Kerzner International Resorts.

From this day forward, MGM Resorts International it is.