Earlier this week, Florida Gators Quarterback Tim Tebow took a break from practicing for the FedEx BCS National Championship game. On Monday night, the 2007 Heisman Trophy winner was spotted at Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza in Fort Lauderdale with some friends. The No. 2 Gators -- who were staying at the Westin Diplomat in Hollywood -- became college football champions Thursday night, beating the No. 1 Oklahoma Sooners at Dolphin Stadium.

Brady Quinn, quarterback for the NFL's Cleveland Browns, was spotted dining with a group of 12 friends in the private dining room at Red, The Steakhouse last weekend. According to a spy, ``Ladies at the bar kept walking past his table trying to get his attention. One group of cougars kept trying to sneak into the glassed-off room, but his security intercepted them at the door.''

We weren't 100 percent sure about a sighting of Rod Stewart at the Jetsonian Publix on South Beach last week, but we received another report of someone our spy could swear was Stewart walking with one of his younger daughters to the market on Brickell Key Tuesday afternoon. If it was Stewart in both cases, he sure likes going grocery shopping.

Scarface and Que Pasa, USA? actor Steven Bauer was spotted dining at RA Sushi in South Miami with a group of friends last weekend.

En route to becoming the most ubiquitous band since Doc Severinsen and the NBC Orchestra, Entourage star Adrian Grenier's Honey Brothers will perform at the grand opening of Las Olas meatery Bova Prime on Tuesday.

South Florida TV star Judge Karen Mills-Francis was at the Miami Dream Dinner on Thursday at the Fontainebleau. The event honored former President Bill Clinton, who spoke at the event. Proceeds benefited the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project.

Honorary chairs of the event were Don and Katrina Peebles, who are throwing what The Wall Street Journal called one of the ''must-attend'' inauguration parties in Washington, D.C., at the historic Georgetown Club co-hosted by Pepsi executive Frank Cooper and wife Nina.

Michael Phelps made the South Beach rounds last week, first at Plunge at the Gansevoort, where he was racing footballer-turned-twinkle toes Warren Sapp, and, on Tuesday night at Mokai, where he was seen dancing on the banquet until 4 a.m.

The City of Sunrise Foundation will host a drawing on Friday during the Florida Panthers vs. Philadelphia Flyers hockey game at the BankAtlantic Center for eight exclusive prize packages valued at almost $6,500 total.

One prize is a celebrity DJ party package featuring four hours of professional DJ services provided by Michael Sarysz of the NBC reality hit, Momma's Boys. Sarysz -- and his mom, of course -- will greet admirers at the game.

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