He's no Mr. Universe when it comes of muscles, but tatoo adds a nice bad boy touch to shirtless John McEnroe at the Deray Beach International Tennis Championships (Click on the photo for more)

This week’s Delray Beach International Tennis Championships at the Tennis Center kicked off with matches between legends of the game, including seven time Grand Slam winner John McEnroe, 51; seven time Grand Slam champ Mats Wilander, 45; Aussie Wimbledon winner Pat Cash, 44; two-time U.S. Open winner Patrick Rafter, 37; and others. McEnroe hasn’t really been turning heads when he takes his shirt off, but Rafter (below) sure has. For more Michele Sandberg pictures of the tournament, click here.

Rafter (Click on the photo for more images of the tournament)

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For more of Michele Sandberg’s photos of the tournament, click here.

Just a month before Jersey Boys, the musical that chronicles his climb to the tops of the charts in the 1960s, hits the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons performed for a sold out crowd Wednesday at the Seminole Hard Rock resort in Hollywood. (Click on the photo for more of this year’s shows)

Frankie Valli, Wednesday in Hollywood (Click on the photo for more)

Model and former Dancing With The Stars contestant Holly Madison once shared Playboy founder Hugh Hefner’s bed with Kendra Wilkinson.

But on Friday night, the two hosted competing parties: Madison was at the Paris Theatre in Miami Beach for a shindig titled Leather & Laces; and Wilkinson hosted at the Seminole Hard Rock Resort.

Winner?

Holly, hands down. More buzz, better celebs. Click on the picture or here to find out who was there.

For a fleeting moment this week, Ashley Thames will occupy one of the rings of the great football circus.

Thames, 26, a barmaid at Duffy’s in Delray Beach, is the tight end of the Miami Caliente, a team in the Lingerie Football League.

She’s also in model-shape.

And in this league, that’s the point.

It so happens that the Caliente, young women who play the world toughest game with shoulder pads fitted over their bikini tops, is in the league’s conference finals Thursday at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood. Winners meet in the Lingerie Bowl VII on Super Bowl Sunday, also at the Seminole Hard Rock Resort.

“Of course sex appeal is what the league sells,” the 5-foot-4, 135-pound Thames said. She wears No. 13, just like Miami Dolphins great Dan Marino, one of her heroes. “But we also are very athletic women who just happen to put on makeup before we get on the field. The girls in basketball and softball, they’re butch. We’re feminine.”

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Thames, during Wednesday's Lingerie Football League Media Day at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood. (Bill Ingram/The Palm Beach Post)

“But there have been broken teeth and ankles among the girls,” Thames says.

Actually, Thames’ herself is nursing a disclocated shoulder, but Thames says that won’t prevent her from playing Thursday against the Chicago Bliss.

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Blues superstar BB King, 84, squeezed in a sold-out show Tuesday night at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood as the madness of Super Bowl week kicks in. For more photos of South Florida concerts, click on the photo.

Is Super Bowl XLIV really about football?

Is it about the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts?

Nah!

It’s about hotties. And celebs, like Jim Carrey and Rihanna and Kim Kardashian. And free concerts on the beach.

So, you’re a mortal with less disposable cash than you used to, where do you go?

Well, it’s all here in the Page2Live guide to Super Bowl fun.

Believe or not, the frenzy already starts Thursday night, 10 days before the actual game, with a fashion show at the W Hotel in Miami Beach. The threads will be mostly swimwear, and the barely dressed bodies those of NFL cheerleaders. It’s one of the Miami Dolphins‘ contributions, along surrendering the team’s practice facility and stadium locker-room to the Colts.

Also this week, downtown Delray Beach has a three-day NFL sanctioned kick-off, starting Thursday. The highlight? Friday’s beachside meet-and-greet with a dozen NFLers. Organizers are promising to produce Pierre Garcon, the Colts’ breakout receiver and a graduate from John I. Leonard High School in Greenacres.

For more Palm Beach County Super Bowl activities, click here.

Fans, meanwhile, will converge on several other South Florida hot spots during Super Bowl week.

Check them out below, or by clicking (Read more…)

Foreigner’s Mick Jones (right) and frontman Kelly Hansen (Lou Gramm’s replacement on the band) perform at the Seminole Hard Rock Resort in Hollywood. The rock band was founded in 1977 and stuffed the top of the charts throughout the 1980s with catchy tunes like Double Vision, Cold as Ice and Juke Box Hero.

Click on the photo, or here, for more South Florida concerts.

Hard to figure out which is worse: The fact that the MTV show that Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi stars in, Jersey Shore, gets any ratings; Or that Opium, the nightclub at the Seminole Hard Rock Resort in Hollywood, actually paid to have Snooki walk the red carpet and pole-dance until the wee hours Saturday. The pint-sized Snook, according to published reports, gets in excess of $2,000 just to show up in a nightclub. Meanwhile Jersey Shore, which depicts eight 20-somethings spending the summer in a house on the coast, has had Italian-American groups howl, partly because the youths call themselves “guidos,” partly because they’re gross caricature of Italians. According to my Miami Herald colleague Lesley Abravanel,  Snooki arrived at the party downing Southern Comfort and applying bronzer.

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Jordan and Sheen filming a Hanes commercial

– Sitcom star Charlie Sheen, whose Two and a Half Men is broadcast on Channel 12-WPEC Monday at 9 p.m., is losing his shirt and undies. Literally. Underwear maker Hanes announced it’s pulling all TV ads featuring Sheen and soon-to-be Jupiter resident Michael Jordan, the former NBA star. According to hollywoodlife.com, the move is a result of Sheen’s arrest for allegedly choking his Palm Beach-raised wife, Brooke Mueller, on Christmas morning. Hanes spokesman Matt Hall told the BBC: “It’s a pretty standard, straightforward call when somebody who’s in your commercials is arrested on suspicion of something of this magnitude. And we would suspend the ads, both for the company and, really, for Mr Sheen and his family as well.”

– Former Port S. Lucie cheerleader Megan Fox, as in Transformers and the gory Jennifer’s Body, is spending some of her Hollywood millions. Click here to see shots of the breathtaking Los Angeles abode she just bought herself, for $3 million. The 23-year-old gets a view of the Pacific during the day, and the glitter of downtown L.A. at night. I’m sure she misses PSL terribly.

Fox

With the NFL more than a month behind last year in announcing the halftime entertainment for the Feb. 7 Super Bowl at Land Shark Stadium, rumors are rampant that the league is considering one of two solutions.

The first, according to a source close to the host committee, is that the Miami Dolphins’ new co-owners — salsero Marc Anthony, hip-hopper Jennifer Lopez and Latin star Gloria Estefan — would combine forces for one of the world’s most-watched halftime shows. It’s unclear whether Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas, who agreed to purchase a small share of the team but hasn’t paid for it yet, would participate.

“Gloria appeared in six Super Bowls,” said Estefan publicist, David Naranjo. “She enjoys helping showcase the city. But I haven’t heard anything about her doing it again.”

The Who's Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend

The other avenue, according to a report in Sports Illustrated’s online version, it that the British band The Who may be thisclose from receiving the nod. While the band’s music is going through a renewal of sorts with the soundtracks of TV series like CSI: Miami, The Who aren’t touring and have no new CD to sell. The band’s frontman, Roger Daltrey, is in the states on the tail end of a solo tour. He appears at the Seminole Hard Rock and Casino in Hollywood on Nov. 29.

“The committee feels that it’s strange that the NFL hasn’t made an announcement yet,” the source said. “Last year, they did it (it was Bruce Springsteen) during a Sunday night game in September. “

At the NFL headquarters in New York, a spokeswoman said there’s no timeline to announce halftime shows.

“When we have something to announce, we will,” she said.

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