The Beat

If you've ever watched Alonzo Mourning in action and thought, Gee, now where I can get myself a 'do like Zo's? you're in luck. The Heat center and his longtime barber, Peter Bethel, have just opened Cutz, a Miami hair salon. Three years ago, when Bethel, who has also trimmed the locks of P.J. Brown, Brian Grant, Tim Hardaway and Jamal Mashburn, mentioned to Mourning (below) that he wanted to open his own shop, Mourning volunteered to be his partner. According to Bethel, Mourning was deeply involved in setting up the salon, doing everything from picking out the old-style barbershop chairs to coming up with the name of the place. "Yes, Alonzo still gets his haircuts from me," says Bethel, "and, yes, he still pays for them."...

A hairy encounter: Two weeks ago Chris Evert and her husband, Andy Mill, walked into their vacation home in Aspen, Colo., and discovered an intruder. "There was garbage all over the hallway," recalls Evert. "Then I heard rustling in the kitchen, so I told Andy, 'You'd better take care of this.' " What Mill found in the kitchen was a black bear, which had apparently gained entrance to the house through a door left open by one of the couple's kids. Mill scared off the ursine visitor by letting out a shrill whistle. "God love him," says Evert of her husband. "He has the loudest whistle in Aspen."...

At least one person isn't happy with HBO's reality show Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Baltimore Ravens. Tim Hasselbeck, Baltimore's fourth-string quarterback, has been ducking HBO's omnipresent TV crews. You'd think Hasselbeck would have picked up some tips on how to deal with the cameras from his fianc�e, reality show vet Elisabeth Filarski, one of the stars of Survivor II. "It's pretty ironic," says Hasselbeck's father, Don, a former NFL tight end. "I just hope Tim doesn't get voted off the Baltimore island."