Ahhhh! It's Olympus Fashion Week and today, the designers from Project Runway showed their collections! Now, as we all know, all four designers from the Final Four - Jeffrey, Laura, Michael and Uli - get to present at Fashion Week, but one of the shows is a decoy, in order for people not to know who the true Final Three are. (Last year, Kara Janx presented at Fashion Week, though Daniel V., Chloe and......

-- Attention players: Gridskipper has a good list of bars where East Village waitresses hang out. Good hunting! -- Kottke is on assignment in the midwest, and spotted this sausage shaped like a beer bottle. Is there hope for our frankfurter-shaped-beer-bottle idea? -- You've probably seen this already, but this Canon in D on the guitar is great. [Via DG.] -- Hilary is coming out against the park-condos (pondos? parondos?) in Brooklyn. Right on!......

It looks like we have reached the crisis point of the Rangers’ season. Sunday they dropped their fifth game in a row, falling 3-2 in overtime to Atlanta. The loss was especially tough to take because of how well New York played in the first two periods of the game. At the end of the second period the Rangers had a 2-0 lead and had out shot Atlanta 27-13. Petr Prucha looked good coming back......

Syracuse could have taken it easy after knocking off Connecticut, confident a win over the nation's top-ranked team secured them an NCAA tournament berth. Pittsburgh could have rested after taking care of archrival West Virginia in their quarterfinal game. Even with nothing meaningful to play for except a bump in seeding, both underdogs lived to fight another day in the Big East semifinals Friday. Syracuse rallied to top Georgetown 58-57, and Pittsburgh crushed second-ranked Villanova.......

Jaromir Jagr needs to stop using illegal sticks. Penalized during overtime for an illegal stick, Jagr then fell victim to a new rule put in for the shootout that requires all participants to have their sticks measured. Jagr stick failed and he was ineligible for the shootout. Without Jagr, the Rangers fell in the shootout and lost to Atlanta 3-2. The Rangers were their own worst enemies on Wednesday taking several dumb penalties while failing......

Gothamist is going to embrace the positive and report solely on the good things that happened to the Knicks last night. After all, when a team wins for only the third time in twenty-five games, it is a cause for celebration. Yes, the Knicks won last night and on the road against a team fighting for a playoff spot as well. So, let’s enjoy the 103-98 victory. The Knicks shot 50% from the field while......

Kevin Weekes picked the perfect time to have his best game as a Ranger. New York stumbled out of the gate taking three penalties and committing multiple turnovers, but Weekes would not allow Philadelphia to score, despite facing 15 shots in the period. With Weekes allowing them to stay in the game, the Rangers hit their stride. Jaromir Jagr scored near the end of the first and the Rangers never looked back, destroying the Flyers......

With thanks to a disqualification of a Chinese short track speedskater, Apolo Anton Ohno won a gold medal in yesterday's 500m final. Ohno had finished 3rd in the semifinals where only the top two advance, but officials ruled that he was impeded by Li JiaJun. In the finals, Ohno jumped to the front after the start and never trailed - only looking back to see where the competition was. He defeated a tough field which......

It was an ugly end for the U.S. hockey team. They came out of the gate flat, fell behind 2-0, took some stupid penalties and then complained about a lack of free airline tickets after their 4-3 loss to Finland. While the result is disappointing, it is not surprising since the U.S. team clearly didn’t have the talent they did in 2002. Finland advances to the semifinals along with Sweden, the Czech Republic and Russia......

It took more than 30 years and an act of Congress, but an American pair has finally won another medal in the ice dancing competition. Last night Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto won the silver medal despite a mistake on a technical aspect of their performance. Belbin, a former Canadian citizen, moved to the United States in 1998, when she was 14 but did not become a citizen until January when about 100 other "aliens......

Two local goaltenders took the ice yesterday for their respective countries and both played brilliantly. The problem for the U.S. was that Henrik Lundqvist played a little better than Rick DiPietro and Sweden won the game 2-1. The U.S. certainly had their chances; two 5 on 3 power plays, but they were unable to score. The loss while disheartening does little to damage their hopes of advancing to the quarterfinals. Unless Latvia can win and......

The Knicks finally won something this season; unfortunately it was only the slam-dunk contest. Nate Robinson, only 5’9” provided a spectacular slam, soaring over the similarly vertically challenged (for the NBA) Spud Webb to force the first ever dunk off. It took him 13 tries, but Robinson executed a nifty pass between the legs/throw off the backboard slam to win the contest. New York can only hope that Robinson does not follow the career path......

Were you a little late for work this morning because of a bus? If so, don’t feel bad; you have a lot in common with an Olympic athlete. Johnny Weir went from second in the Men’s Skating to fifth apparently because of a change in the bus schedule. Weir’s complaints ring especially hollow when you consider that Evan Lysacek spent the day in the infirmary receiving IV fluids to overcome the flu and managed to......

Bode Miller was true to form yesterday as he failed to finish the slalom portion of the men's combined. The event combines the speed of the downhill with the technical expertise of the slalom. While Miller led the field after the downhill run by more than two seconds, it was the slalom that stymied him again. On the World Cup circuit this year, he has failed to finish all but one slalom race. Miller was......

One day after the US Men won the gold and silver medals in the halfpipe, the US Women did the same as Hannah Teter won the gold medal while Gretchen Bleiler netted the silver medal. The women fell one frontside 900 short of a sweep of the medals like the men had in the 2002 Games. Kelly Clark, the 2002 gold medalist fell on her final trick despite getting huge air in her run, ruining......

Last night, the 2006 Olympic Games of Torino began with IOC President Jacques Rogge delivering a message for "peace, tolerance and brotherhood." The ceremony included disco music and a song from Luciano Pavarotti. The Olympic flame was lit by Stefania Belmondo, a two-time gold medal winner in cross-country, while the torch was carried into the stadium by legendary Italian skier Alberto Tomba. Several athletes have already been suspended for five days for having high......

Last night, the New Jersey Devils retired the number of former defenseman and longtime captain, Scott Stevens. Stevens, who played 22 seasons in the NHL retired last September after 13 seasons with the team. His #4 is the first retired number for the franchise. During his career, Stevens appeared in more games than any other defenseman, and is 5th in games played at all positions. He helped lead the Devils to Stanley Cups in 1995,......

This is a game that may come back to haunt the Rangers later in the season. Facing Buffalo, which was two points behind them in the conference standings, the Rangers came out flat and played a sloppy game falling 2-1 to the Sabres. The news was not all good for Buffalo’ which lost their leading scorer, Tim Connolly’ to a knee injury after a hit by Darius Kasparaitis that some felt was a dirty play.......

It was a perfect confluence of events: a big game that lived up to the hype, the fall of a dynasty and the birth of a legend. Texas beat USC 41-38 behind the legs and arm of Vince Young who accounted for 467 yards of offense. Young saved his best for the end of the game. With just over six minutes remaining, USC scored to go ahead by 12 points. Texas came down the field......

The Yankees may have found a new centerfielder, but that doesn’t mean they are saying goodbye to their old one. Bernie Williams has agreed to return to the Bronx for another year and $1.5 million. The question is, what role will Bernie have on the 2006 Yankees? There are certainly at bats to be had at the DH spot, but do the Yankees want to use Bernie everyday? Ruben Sierra was successful as a pinch......

Baseball has a wacky transaction system. Yesterday the Yankees offered Bernie Williams arbitration, but only because they knew he would decline it. Why the apparent waste of time? Because without the offer, the Yankees would have lost negotiating rights to Bernie and if Bernie had accepted he would have been in line for a salary near ten million dollars for 2006. So, the Yankees and Bernie have until January 8th to make a deal. Even......

With about two hours left before a contractual deadline, the Yankees and Hideki Matsui inked a four-year, $52 million deal for the outfielder to remain in pinstripes. The contract makes Matsui the highest played Japanese player in the Majors, with a yearly salary that is $2 million more than Ichiro Suzuki has with the Seattle Mariners. Arn Tellem, Matsui's agent, was pleased that a deal was reached and that 31 year-old Matsui "hopes to retire......

You know its been a tough season when Jets fans look back so fondly to last season's cardiac-inducing AFC Divisional playoff victory over the San Diego Chargers. Remember linebacker Eric Barton's penalty, which could have been the costliest in franchise history? Anyhow, with things looking down but not yet out for the Jets (2-5), a date with a San Diego (4-4) team that looks like last year was no fluke does not seem like an......

Jets fans, have no fear, because this weekend marks the return of a 41 year-old Vinny Testaverde. It doesn't matter if you lost two younger and more mobile quarterbacks, because Mike Heimerdinger (what a freaking name) thinks Vinny's quick release will work out for the Jets and their porous offensive line. Testaverde might need to throw immediately after getting the snap against Tampa Bay's top-ranked defense. The Jets could use more help on offense as......

Jets fans probably weren't expecting much out of Brooks Bollinger in his first career start against Baltimore yesterday and that's exactly what they got. On top of Bollinger's inexperience at quarterback, the Jets had a conservative game plan that led to anemic offensive stats in their 13-3 loss. The only thing that kept them in the game was Baltimore's craptacular offense and the Jets defense. On the afternoon, the Jets had 8 first downs, 152......

The news keeps getting worse for the Jets. It looks like Chad Pennington will be out for the rest of the season with another tear to his right rotator cuff. With his second tear to that shoulder, the injury could be a career threatening one for the Jets quarterback. As we mentioned yesterday, the injury occurred in the 2nd half of Sunday's 26-20 loss to the Jaguars. Because Jay Fiedler, Pennington's backup, also suffered a......

Entering the season, one of the big questions facing the Jets was how well Chad Pennington's shoulder would hold up. With erratic performances in the first two games of the season, Sunday's 26-20 loss against the Jaguars couldn't make Jets fans feel any better. At the start of the 2nd half, Pennington was sacked on consecutive plays and had his shoulder injured on the 2nd sack. Pennington would return later (after an injury to......

There have been few athletes in the history of New York who captured the imagination and adoration of the city the way Mark Messier did. When he uttered his famous “We’ll Win Tonight” guarantee before Game Six of the Devils series and then backed it up with a hat-trick, he became one of the true legends of Gotham, up there with Namath, Reed and Jackson. Messier announced his retirement on Monday ending a twenty-five year......

How good is Mariano Rivera? Through the years he has been the least appreciated of the Yankees’ stars, but without him where would the Yankees be? Monday night Rivera was dominant again throwing a 1-2-3 ninth inning on seven pitches to record his thirtieth save of the year. Since blowing two saves to the Red Sox in April, Rivera has not failed in a save opportunity and has surrendered only 3 earned runs in over......

Gothamist has a pretty standard taxi routine: get in the cab, say our destination, repeat our destination, repeat our destination a third time (we sometimes speakabitquickly), roll down the windows because the AC is off or sucks, wait, pay and tip the driver, get out. Occasionally we'll get into a conversation with the driver of the standard "where are you from" or "how's traffic" variety but most often we get too absorbed in looking......