Jeter back with Minka, after miscue with gift bag

Derek Jeter must've either run out of gift bags or potential new conquests.

Regardless of the reason, the New York Yankees captain apparently has rekindled his romance with actress Minka Kelly, his former fiancee. They were spotted together ringing in 2012 in Paris.

Since the couple split up last summer, Jeter, an accomplished ladies' man, has invited a bevy of beauties to his Trump World Tower bachelor pad -- then sent them home alone the next morning with gift baskets of autographed memorabilia, a friend told the New York Post.

"Derek has girls stay with him at his apartment in New York, and then he gets them a car to take them home the next day," the friend said. "Waiting in his car is a gift basket containing signed Jeter memorabilia, usually a signed baseball."

What, no commemorative DVD of their night together? Jeter probably just provides those for No. 3,000.

The details of Jeter's narcissistic routine were revealed when a repeat visitor was offended to receive an identical parting gift the second time around.

"He basically gave her the same gift twice because he'd forgotten hooking up with her the first time," the source said.

After three years together, Jeter must certainly remember Kelly, Esquire's 2010 Sexiest Woman Alive.

The actress must have plenty of signed baseballs by now, or perhaps he has a plethora of personalized "Friday Night Lights" posters.

■ CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? -- Marshall freshman guard Justin Coleman was suspended indefinitely for an undisclosed violation of team rules, but the suspension probably stems from the fact he was on his cellphone instead of the bench for much of the Thundering Herd's recent loss to Belmont.

The Mid-Majority online reporter Pierce Greenberg was incredulous at the actions of Coleman, who had started the game but spent the second half behind the bench.

"Not on the bench, behind the bench and coaches, far away from the nearest action," Greenberg wrote. "Then, I saw something I don't think I've ever seen at any level of sport. Coleman slyly slipped a cellphone out of the sleeve of his warm-ups and proceeded to look at it for most of the second half.

"I could hardly take my eyes off of it, refusing to believe what I saw. It was so sophomoric, so appalling."

It would've been fitting if Coleman -- who could've been following the game online -- learned of his suspension via social media, text or email on his "Smart" phone.

■ LINGERIE BOWL -- Lingerie Bowl IX will be played at Orleans Arena on Feb. 5 -- Super Bowl Sunday -- in a game televised live on MTV2.

But considering only about 3,000 fans attended last year's free Lingerie Bowl at the Thomas & Mack Center, the crowd for this year's game could be as scant as the outfits worn by the Lingerie Football League "models."

Ticket prices range from $15 to $82. At those rates, fans should be guaranteed a happy ending -- meaning, of course, a thrilling finish involving the hometown Las Vegas Sin, who are 3-0 and hope to play their way into the final.

COMPILED BY TODD DEWEY
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL