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While Jets Head Coach Rex Ryan is still trying to figure out who will run the huddle come the season opener, Sunday Styles checks in with the real quarterback controversy in town—could Mark Sanchez become the sex symbol that Joe Namath once was in the sixties? The Times says that the Jet rookie is "arguably even better looking" than Broadway Joe. Madison Avenue appears eager to dig its claws into the 22-year-old—how long will it be before he becomes a friend of the mocha frap the way Joe once had an old pal in Ovaltine? But advertisers aren't the only ones who wanna get their paws on the gunslinger who's already done a topless GQ spread and is known to friends as "Dirty Sanchez." The Post says, “Walking sex has a new name. The succulent Sanchez is bona fide cougar bait.” The Times thinks that Sanchez could be in Tom Brady Territory in terms of how his appeal sizes up with the current crop of quarterbacks, adding, "Michael Vick could have had it, but glamour cannot abide dogfighting."

- Florentine specialty gundi gets the Sunday treatment in the Daily News from Irene Sax. April Bloomfield speaks about the “fluffy little bites of love”, Iacopo Falai calls them a “woman's dish”, and Mark Ladner’s recipe from Del Posto is included. Hit DiPalo’s to find the sheep’s milk that is essential for a winning dish at home.

Don't look now, but New York has the two best baseball teams in the Major Leagues. While the Yankees have only recently moved to the top of the American League, the Mets have been cruising atop the National League for a nice period and are currently the best team, record wise, in all of baseball. With the team's success this season more casual baseball fans are now more inclined to cheer for the Mets, which The Times reported on in a Sunday Styles article. While a die-hard Mets fan may frown upon these "fair weather" fans, there is a significant impact to the increased Mets following.

All our sniffling has been vindicated! Huzzah!

Remember back in December when the Post took a look at the faux-nightclub for teens, Crush? And then how Gawker had its fun ripping apart excruciatingly irritating promoter, Lizzie Grubman's "16-year-old socialite-private-school-jappy-spoiled-Upper-East-Side intern," Lexi Lehman?

Hot on the heels of last week's LA Times piece about the Cobra Snake, the New York Times Sunday Styles section gives us a two-pager on Merlin Bronques, the wigged-out dude behind Last Night's Parties. Just in case you don't follow the hipster party scene, here's a basic summary: Merlin goes out to parties each night, snaps some hotties (preferably showing some nipple), and posts them on his website. Same goes for the Cobra Snake-- although he is based in Los Angeles, while LNP seems to be a New York institution. Gawker has even gotten into the act, picking their weekly favorites from both sites. What do we think? Well, nipple pix are always a nice way to start the day-- and this may be a sign of how old we've become, but don't all these kids look exactly the same?

-Finally, Newsday also endorses Bloomberg.

Ah, the Weddings/Celebrations in the Times. Some people never look at them and some people turn directly to them come Sunday morning. We at Gothamist mostly glance over them after puking our way through the Sunday Styles (we're a glutton for pain) but that is neither here nor there since starting this week we read the wedding announcements so you don't have to. This week we'll just do a purely numbers recap, but expect more in-depth analysis in the coming weeks.

Are you a vacation snob? The ever, uhm, enlightening Times Sunday Styles wants you to know what the deal is with people loudly proclaiming their allegiance to various summer spots with bumper stickers, zip code tote bags and T-shirts. The short answer is that people like to show off. The longer answer comes half-way into the article:

And don't forget to vote in Gawker's NY Times Hotties poll; your vote counts.

Perhaps you were as surprised as Gothamist when you saw a meteorologist mentioned in the Sunday Styles section of the Sunday Times. In the essay David Carr offers his explanation of how the "changed the world" genre of pop history books that have recently become popular. You know the kind, "How the Irish Saved Civilization"; "Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World"; and "Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time" to name just a few. Along the way Carr comes to blame MIT meteorologist Edward Lorenz for this phenomenon, citing Lorenz's 1963 paper presented to the New York Academy of Sciences. In discussing his research Lorenz quoted a meteorologist as saying "if the theory were correct, one flap of a seagull's wings would be enough to alter the course of the weather forever", meaning that small changes in initial conditions can have enormous consequences later on. Lorenz later dropped the seagull in favor of a butterfly, in part because his calculations looked like a butterfly when graphed (you can watch the butterfly, or Lorenz attractor, in action). Carr may not have realized it but Lorenz's insight changed how meteorologists viewed the atmosphere and introduced the world to chaos theory. In his classic, for weather geeks, paper "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow" Lorenz wrote

David Amsden, Writer