Frontman Chris Robinson and The Black Crowes took over a sold-out Pompano Amphitheatre Tuesday night on the band’s Stuck Inside Utopia tour. The bluesy hard rockers of She Talks to Angels are pushing their new album, Before the Frost. And yes, it’s hard to believe that Robinson was married for six years to big-screen cutie Kate Hudson, who’s now playing house with New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez.

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The Black Crowes' frontman Chris Robinson performs Tuesday night at Pompano Amphitheatre

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– Who’d have thunk it!? Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am loves the Miami Dolphins so much that he’d put his bod on the line for the team. He posted on his blog this video plea to team owner Stephen Ross to grant him a tryout before the season starts next week. At 5-foot-4 on high heels, however, the self-described “fast” will.i.am may have a hard time finding a position, except maybe kicker. He says he wants to be a punt returner. “Yo, Ross, this ain’t no joke, I wanna play,” will says on the video. The team had no reax to the rapper’s come-ons. A source, meanwhile, tells me Dolphins officials ordered jerseys with Black Eyed Peas hottie Fergie’s name on the back, fueling rumors that the band will play at halftime of the Sept. 21 Monday night home opener.

Forest Lawn

– From the Great Beyond, Michael Jackson is pushing real estate prices up by at least 30 percent. Future stiffs have gone wacko for burial plots near Forest Lawn Memorial Park mausoleum where the King of Pop himself was interred last week in Glendale, Calif. Burial plots that went for $7,000 a few weeks ago now are creeping toward $10,000, reports TMZ. Interested in a crypt for two inside Jackson’s mausoleum? Fuhgettaboutit! They’re now trading for $34,000 a piece.

– Hey, A-Rod, got something to tell us? Kate Hudson, the actress galpal of Miami’s New York Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez, is stepping out with a big fat sparkler on her ring finger. Spies for the New York Daily News spotted her with the bling at a recent Bombers game. Seeing that it took the lovebirds weeks in the spring to admit they were an item, it’ll probably be years for them to confirm they’re engaged.

Rubio

– Latin songbird Paulina Rubio twittered over the weekend that her Miami Beach mansion was burglarized Saturday night. Rubio, 38, wrote that cops are going through security camera pictures and are closing in on a suspect. The Mexican star, who lives in a $2.7 million home on the Venetian Islands, was on her way to Spain via Miami when she discovered the crime. A woman at the home said: “I can’t comment about that.” According to a Miami Beach PD report, it’s unclear yet what disappeared. What’s clear: a member of Rubio’s entourage found the mansion’s front door wide open with foot prints on carpets inside.

Ryder and mom Kate Hudson visit Alex Rodriguez Sunday. (Storms Media Group)

– Must’ve been a weird Father’s Day for slumping New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez. His own two children, with former wife Cynthia, were nowhere in sight. But his new galpal, Fool’s Gold actress Kate Hudson, dropped in on him at the Florida Marlins‘ stadium near Miami with her little boy, Ryder. I’m told by an inside source that Hudson and her 5-year-old (fathered by her ex-husband, rocker Chris Robinson of Black Crowes) then took place in a luxury suite for seven innings.

– And golf may finally get interesting, sorta. Beer- and rain-soaked US Open fans at Bethpage Black on Long Island, N.Y., actually heckled Tiger Woods Sunday, basically telling the soon-to-be Jupiter Island resident to butch up. “We’re on Long Island, baby, where men are men,” someone yelled at Woods from the gallery. “Put down that umbrella!” Another said: “Suck it up, you’ve got your own video game!” Woods responded by putting a finger to his mouth and telling them “Shhhh!”

(Courtesy The Telegraph)

While benched by his New York Yankees for a case of “fatigue,” slumping slugger Alex Rodriguez found nothing better to do than party with his sweetheart in Miami Beach until 2:30 Saturday.

After Friday’s game against the Florida Marlins, his first as a bench-warmer, A-Rod was driven to the Fontainebleau Resort’s LIV nightclub in his chauffeured Maybach, according to a spywitness.

Rodriguez and Hudson (Courtesy Sports Illustrated)

Shortly after midnight, about 30 minutes after he arrived, screen siren Kate Hudson joined him at an exclusive party.

Meanwhile, about 2:15 a.m., the Maybach’s chauffeur undid a baby seat in the back and stuffed it in the trunk, my observer said.

A few minutes later Hudson, who starred in Fool’s Gold and Almost Famous, left the club and made a beeline for the limousine.  A-Rod came out 15 minutes later and he, too, disappeared in the car. It peeled off as an army of bodyguards kept paparazzi at bay.

“They were acting like no one was figuring out what was going out,” the source said.

For some reason, Rodriguez and Hudson have attempted to keep their relationship a secret but have been spotted all over Manhattan together.

Rodriguez at Saturday’s game waved off reporters who wanted to ask him about his fatigue recovery regimen.

Rodriguez is on a 10-year contract with the Yanks worth $275 million.

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The Yanks are in town, beating the Florida Marlins soundly last night in the first game of a three-part weekend series. But the Bronx Bombers’ main attraction, slugger Alex Rodriguez, has been left on the bench to, among other nasty habits, pick his nose and drool sunflower seeds.

No wonder Madonna gave up on the guy! (Photo exclusive to Page2Live)

(Photo exclusive to Page2Live)

The Prez

– It’s pretty obvious Prez Barack Obama doesn’t read Page2Live. Well, I’m sure saving the economy takes up most of his time. But still, had he read this story and this one, he’d probably think twice about inviting Heat superstar Dwyane Wade to the White House for the Father’s Day wingding this weekend. Now, I know Obama and the Olympic hero share some of the same background, both being from Chicago and all. But should someone accused by his wife of cheating and ignoring their kids really be at an event that’s about family?

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– Here’s a shocker! Part-time Miami Beach resident Billy Joel and his much, much, much younger third wife are splitsville. The pianoman, 60, and chef Katie Lee, 33 years younger, were hitched four years ago. The singer of A Matter of Trust reportedly was getting steamed about Lee spending more time with a heterosexual fashion designer instead of drinking wine with him at home . . .

– And three major sports figures with local ties made it into Forbes magazine’s 20 highest-paid athletes. Those who didn’t make at least $30 million from salaries and commercial endorsements last year didn’t need to apply. No. 1 is soon-to-be Jupiter Island resident Tiger Woods. The golfer made $110 million, despite the injury that kept him off the courses for months. At No. 2, proud Rachel’s patron and NBA Hall-of-Famer Michael Jordan, who owns property at The Bears Club in Jupiter, made $45 million. He hasn’t played an official game in six years. And Yankees slugger Alex Roid-riguez, who lives in Miami in the off-season, clocked in at No. 13, with a mere $32 million . . .

– First up, the July cover of GQ. In case you’re wondering, that naked guy already ran through the hallways of a hotel in the same state in his previous flick, Borat. This time, Sacha Baron Cohen turns into a flamboyant Austrian fashion reporter whose purpose is to make heterosexual males uncomfortable for Bruno, set to release on July 10.

– Is it just me or is David Letterman the ultimate late-night wimp? The fading comedian issued a second apology for a joke about former vice-president wannabe Sarah Palin’s daughter getting knocked up by Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez. Palin has milked this thing for more than a week now, getting just enough publicity out of it to get back into the public’s consciousness. By apologizing not just once, but twice, Letterman has played right into her game.

– It feels like Palm Beach Gardens tennis champ Venus Williams has been on top for ever, but she turns only 29 Wednesday.

– Just when you thought that the professional investigators looking into the recent crash of the Air France Rio-Paris flight were sucking wind, Palm Beach’s own Donald Trump has figured it all out. In a recent entry on his blog, The Donald writes that the composite material used for the Airbus’ rudders is just no-good. How does he know? He quotes a friend who owns a hand-cart company. “The carts are made of the same composite material as the Airbus 330’s vertical stabilizer/rudders . . . and he gets about 10 calls each year that details how a cart will disintegrate with very little physcial abuse.” Oh, we feel much better knowing!

What are they smoking at UM?

Days after Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez admitted to having been on ‘roids for three years early this decade, and thus admitting he’s been consistently lying about it until now, the University of Miami named a baseball stadium for him.

A-Rod Friday at University of Miami

Role model A-Fraud, I mean, A-Rod briefly addressed the crowd, after he received a standing O.

“I have been so fortunate to have received so much from a game I love so much,” he said, according to the AP. “That doesn’t mean I haven’t made mistakes, and unless you’ve been in a cave under the ocean this last week, you know that I’ve made some. What it does mean is that I understand only in America can you dream big, work hard and be rewarded beyond your wildest dreams.”

What’s next? Renaming the school’s new basketball arena BALCO Center?

Rodriguez, by the way, was accompanied to the Alex Rodriguez Park dedication in Coral Gables by longtime pal Ingrid Casares, a former nightclub owner and long-ago Madonna lover.

(Picture by Storms Media Group)

Kelly Klein

Now that Madonna high-tailed it out of Wellington, I’m told by several sources in the horsey set that Kelly Klein, ex-trophy wife of couturier Calvin Klein, took the 50-year-old Material Girl under her pretty wing when the singer arrived in Wellington for horseback training two weeks ago.

Madonna and her personal horse trainer were spotted riding an obstacle course on a field in the Palm Beach Point development, on the west side of Wellington. That’s where coffee table-book author Klein keeps her horses.

And Klein had Madonna over at her $500,000-townhouse at Palm Beach Polo several times.

Apparently, Klein is the one who should be thanked by fans at the Winter Equestrian Festival for the presence of goons who wouldn’t allow pictures of the singer.

“Kelly personally called (Palm Beach International Equestrian Center owner Mark Bellissimo) to tell him Madonna was coming,” one source said. “Kelly wanted to make sure Madonna would be comfortable and that no one would bother her.” (Read more…)

Former Major League first baseman Frank Torre jumped into the controversy of a yet-to-be-published book about his brother, former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre.

West Palm Beacher Frank Torre, 77, defended his little brother after the New York media went berserk last week as word leaked that Joe Torre criticized the organization for which he won four World Series.

The tome, The Yankee Years by Sports Illustrated scribe Tom Verducci, comes out Tuesday. And in it, says Frank, Joe spoke the truth. So, what’s the big deal? (Read more…)