IP auctions are a murky world, especially online brokerages and sales platforms. But this release caught my eye: Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) is selling off its “Sportslink” trademark later this month at an auction managed by ICAP Ocean Tomo. The reserve price is $10K. The Sportslink brand has been used by VZ previously in connection with “planning, implementing, and managing telecommunications for large broadcast sporting events,” it says, and the auctioneer helpfully adds that this “should be extremely valuable to sports content developers, publishers and providers, mobile web-app developers, sports marketing companies and agencies, among others.” Which may be good, but Sportslink.com domain name is owned by someone else, it seems.