Tuesday, February 24, 2004
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NORM: Kournikova serves Iglesias a warning
Enrique Iglesias in concert Saturday.
Rick Springfield releasing new CD.
Jessica Simpson on "VH1 Divas" team.
Al Roker's segment on a Las Vegas truffle auction airs tonight on the Food Network.
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Tennis goddess Anna Kournikova has served notice to on-again, off-again boyfriend Enrique Iglesias: Two can play the game.
After I reported here on Monday that Kournikova and actor Mark Wahlberg were seen holding hands at the Bellagio and leaving in a car at 4 a.m., spies provided this development: They spent Sunday night at the Palms "Real World" suite after showing up at the new Hart & Huntington Tattoo Salon at the Palms about 10 p.m.
They were seen leaving the Palms on Monday.
There's speculation that Kournikova is evening the score for reported recent infidelities of her beau Iglesias, who has a concert Saturday at the Hard Rock Hotel.
In town for Light's celebrity-studded second anniversary, Kournikova arrived at Caramel, the Bellagio's sister club to Light, with Mickey Rourke but quickly hooked up with Wahlberg, who starred in "Boogie Nights."
Cowherd makes move
It's official: Former Las Vegas TV sportscaster Colin Cowherd is replacing Tony Kornheiser on ESPN Radio.
Cowherd, sports director at KVBC-TV, Channel 3 in the early 1990s and a member of the Las Vegas Stars radio team for three years, agreed to a four-year deal Monday, he said by telephone.
A multiple winner of the Nevada Sportscaster of the Year award while at KVBC, he moved to WTVT-TV in Tampa, Fla., and in 1996 became sports anchor at KGW-TV in Portland, Ore. He has been a radio talk-show host on Portland's KFXX for five years.
Cowherd, 40, and his family will move to ESPN headquarters in Connecticut, where he starts the solo-hosted show March 29. The show will air on ESPN's local affiliate, KBAD-AM 920, from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m.
At KVBC, he was part of the station's resurgence, teaming with Dave Courvoisier, Gwen Castaldi, Sara Hoeveler, Jack Finn and Steve Eager.
"It was my first TV job, and it was a glorious time in my life," Cowherd said. "My best friends still live there. I recently purchased a place there, and it's probably where I'll retire."
The Scene and Heard
Joe Bonaventure, the son of District Court Judge Joe Bonaventure, is resigning as a Clark County deputy district attorney to run for Justice Court judge in Department 9, a newly created judgeship. ...
Al Roker's "Unusual Specialities" segment on the white truffle auction in Las Vegas airs on the Food Network at 9 p.m. tonight. ...
Rick Springfield, former lead of "EFX" at the MGM Grand, releases his new CD today. Springfield will be performing at Mandalay Bay's beach on May 29, according to his Web site. ...
Booked: Patti LaBelle and Jessica Simpson are teaming up for "VH1 Divas," live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas at 9 p.m. on April 18.
Sightings
Clint Holmes and Sheena Easton, sorting out plans at Spago on Monday with Rick Garson and Howard Lefkowitz, co-producers of "Vegas Live! With Clint Holmes and Sheena Easton" and Susan Lucas, KVVU-TV, Channel 5 general manager. ... Kournikova, at the Green Valley Sport Club indoors on Saturday with her coach, signing an autograph for Trenton Alenik, 15, a rising tennis prospect at Silverado High School. ... Paris Hilton, signing a 15-pound bowling ball attached to the leg of a guy celebrating his bachelor party on Saturday at Olives restaurant (Bellagio), after Darlene Ensign, wife of Sen. John Ensign, and Sally Hopper, wife of Jimmy Hopper, suggested he get the heiress' autograph.
The Punch Line
"Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors." -- Alice Walker
Norm Clarke can be reached at 383-0244 or norm@ reviewjournal.com.
