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: - Best surprise nomination: Ryan Gosling's Best Actor nomination for Half Nelson; Gosling plays a drug-addicted teacher in Brooklyn trying to help one of his students...it'll be on DVD in three weeks - see......

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.......

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......

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. The Yankees actually had a 3-1 lead in this game courtesy of an RBI single from Alex Rodriguez and back-to-back homeruns by Derek Jeter and Robinson Cano, but with Kevin Brown on......

- Monroe wins the PSAL behind the pitching of Danny Almonte. - The Big Apple Bowl could be slated for 2010. - The Pistons beat the Lakers, while the Knicks are in the off-season. - Marv no longer with Cablevision and the Knicks; the subsequent controversy. - The Mets fire their hitting coach, stink up the field, and then trade for Richard Hidalgo. - Play at Shinnecock starts and continues through the weekend. -......

Yesterday afternoon the Mets fired hitting coach Denny Walling and replaced him on an interim basis with Bench Coach Don Baylor. When you are hitting .246 as a team and .101 (6 for 59) with the bases loaded, someone needs to be fired and since it is rare that owners fire the actual players, Walling ends up as the scapegoat. The Mets responded by tagging the Cleveland Indians for 14 hits and seven runs and......

Great picture by Chris Carlson for the Associated Press. It looks like Jeff Zucker got a Peacock transplant, a must when one is the President of NBC. Zucker is the wunderkind who helped turn the Today Show into the powerhouse it is today, then he worked on the Evening News while still working on the Today Show, he battled cancer, and now has managed to resign the cast of Friends to another season - a......