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Venus and Serena: Athletic Versions of Paris and Nicky?

Venus and Serena Williams lived it up over the weekend, hitting Opium and Mansion like tennis stars turned rock stars. The sisters showed up at Mansion Friday night to watch Imperia Vodka's battle of the DJs--AM vs. Mark Ronson. Spotted in the crowd were Ricky Martin, Lydia Hearst and Pharell. But the Sisters were the main attraction as they set up shop at a table directly next to the DJ booth so the crowd could watch Serena serve up vodka tonics in between cozying up to rapper Busta Rhymes, whom we hear made a very audible homophobic slur at 5:30am Sunday at the 11th Street Diner after a gay man complimented him on his comeback. "He was so rude," says one shocked witness who scurried out of the diner after Busta's bodyguards started moving in on the stunned fan.

Ballers having a ball

Miami Heat player Dwayne Wade was spotted at Metropolis Downtown last weekend. According to spywitnesses, he was surrounded by fawning fans all night.

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On Monday, October 10, Samuel L. Jackson and basketball legend Bill Russell will be at Casa Casaurina for a screening of the Sundance Channel's six-part Iconoclasts series, premiering in November. The series highlights the achievements of creative types and ground breakers and in this case, Jackson goes one on one with Russell on the court.

Shaq attack

On Saturday night, Shaquille O'Neal was honored at the exclusive Police Chiefs party held at the Hotel Victor. After the party, as Shaq headed out of the hotel, he literally stopped traffic to sign autographs and take pictures with fans before getting into his burgundy GMC truck and driving (within the speed limit, of course) off into the night. 

Wade in the spa water

NBA All-Star/Miami Heat's Dwayne Wade, visited Spa V at the Hotel Victor  in Miami Beach Wednesday night for a little R & R. He experienced the luxurious V60 Swedish Massage and relaxed in the Spa V Cool Down Room. He left the lucky master masseuse an extremely generous tip. With  his salary,  we'd expect nothing less.

An Irie Weekend

Miami Heat DJ Irie sure does get around. Not only does he spin Heat fans into a frenzy at the triple A, among several other hot spots in town, but this past weekend, he hosted a celeb golf tourney to benefit the Miami Heat Charitable Fund. In addition to the Heat dancers, who undoubtedly felt right at home as the golf crowd ogled them much like the basketball crowd does, several Heat players including Eddie Jones, Rasual Butler and Udonis Haslem did the fore-play thing at the Miami Beach Golf Club Friday with Drumline star Nick Cannon, Dennis Scott of the Memphis Grizzlies, Antrel Rolle of the Arizona Cardinals and Raja Bell of the Utah Jazz.

But it was the threesome of New Orleans Saints player Kijana Carter, Rolle and Bell that won the whole thing.  Bell took home a Krieger watch for hitting closest to the pin at hole #6; Cannon was a big winner, onstage with Fat Joe at the tourney afterparty at Mansion; but the biggest winner of all was DJ Irie, who was kind enough to give him his mic to Jamie Foxx who insisted the crowd give it up, too, for Irie's charity work and putting together a swell weekend.