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NYC & Co better update their marketing materials, because New York City has a new name...The Big Onion. At least that's what Stephon Marbury is calling New York these days. While professing his love of yesterday's NY Post cover (we can't argue with him), Marbury e-mailed The Post, "I must say the front page of The Post has to be the funniest thing I have ever seen in a long time. I'm sitting on...

There is tons of speculation all over the Internet about the Oscar nominations for films released in 2006. As an Oscars fiend, we're not going to digress about the calculus of vote-splitting. Instead, we'll point out a couple things we noticed:

In what is becoming a slightly disturbing trend, the United States lost again in the World Baseball Classic. First, they lost to Canada, yesterday, the Americans lost to South Korea, 7-3. South Korea, who is 2-0 in the 2nd round and is unbeaten in the WBC, slugged their way to victory. Hee-Seop Choi teed off for a three-run homer in the 4th inning off of Astros pitcher Dan Wheeler, giving the Koreans a 6-1 lead. South Korea added another run in the 6th and the United States mounted a feeble attempt at a comeback in the 9th.

Gothamist has watched tons of baseball games and every so often after a player tags-up, you see an appeal to the umpires. We've never actually seen that appeal work. In yesterday's World Baseball Classic game between the United States and Japan, it did. In the 8th inning with bases loaded, Akinori Iwamura hit a fly ball to left off Joe Nathan. Tsuyoshi Nishioka tagged up from third and easily beat an off-line throw from Randy Wynn to the plate. After the Nishioka apparently scored, the US appealed at 3rd, with the 2nd base umpire denying the appeal. Buck Martinez, the US manager came out and appealed to home plate umpire Bob Davidson who called Nishioka out after a conference. While replay wasn't an option for the play, it showed that Nishioka was clearly still at 3rd when Wynn caught the ball.

The Yankees can’t wait to escape from California. They may have the dumbest name in baseball, but the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim can play baseball and on Saturday night they thumped the Yankees for the third straight game, this time winning 8-6.

Gothamist Sports also added Chris Carlson as a contributor to our burgeoning little page this week. Don't forget to check out the week in full.

The Mets responded by tagging the Cleveland Indians for 14 hits and seven runs and making Don Baylor look like a genius. The most important development was the two out at bat with the bases loaded by Mike Cameron. Cameron came in for his defense and but his hitting has been below average even for him this year. He is hitting .202 with 66 strikeouts in 208 at bats. Last night he showed some grit and battled with a two strike count to drive in two runs, making the score 3-0 and the Mets never looked back.

to another season - a brilliant stall tactic while trying to figure out how to find programs that will maintain the audiences that Friends brings in. I'll be sending him my sitcom script shortly.