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* This one is on a smaller scale, but you have '''Mike Nelson''', comedian and [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Joel Robinson]]'s [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]], and Mike Nelson, weatherman for Denver's [[ABC]] affiliate KMGH. And politician Michael "Mike" Nelson, a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
** Mike Nelson was also the name of Lloyd Bridges's character on ''Sea Hunt''.
* The '''''New York Daily News''''' name is shared by two unrelated newspapers: one, founded in 1855 by Gideon Tucker, flourished under Benajamin Wood and became notable for its pro-Confederate and racist bias, and closed in 1906; the other, founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson (as the '''''Illustrated Daily News'''''), attracted readers with sensational coverage of crime, scandal, and violence, and at one point, it had the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in the United States.
* The '''New York Giants''' football team is actually officially named the New York ''Football'' Giants, because when the team was founded one of the city's baseball teams was the New York (now San Francisco) Giants.
** Speaking of the Giants, neither one is to be confused with Japan's Yomiuri Giants, nor are the Detroit Tigers to be confused with the Hanshin Tigers. The first mistake happened in the second ''[[Major League]]'' movie, where the Indians' coach is at first happy to hear they've got a player coming in from "the Giants". Similarly, in ''The Order'', during interviews with "Calamity" James Wa the interviewer repeatedly mistakes "the Tigers" that James' dad played with for the team in Detroit.
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