The Beat

Even by Las Vegas's standards, it was an event-filled week. On Oct. 22, Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf were married at their Vegas house in a private ceremony. Make that a very private ceremony. Only five people were in attendance: Agassi, Graf, their mothers and district judge Michael Cherry, a longtime friend of Agassi's, who officiated. Even Andre's father, Mike, was in the dark; he found out after returning from his job as a casino greeter that night. "So what?" said Mike. "He got married. It's not his first time." Andre, who was previously hitched to Brooke Shields, had said as recently as September that he and Graf wouldn't get married until after the birth of their son, who wasn't due until November. So why the rush? Part of the reason may have been Graf's condition. According to Mike, Graf had experienced discomfort and had been bedridden of late. "Andre rushed back from a tournament in Europe [four days before the wedding] to be with her," says Mike. Good thing, too: Four days after getting married, Graf delivered Jaden Gil, a five-pound, 14-ounce boy. Though three weeks early, the baby is healthy and went home with Graf and Agassi last Friday. Looks like a honeymoon's going to have to wait....

There's a reason the music accompanying Fox's baseball postseason promos sounds so familiar: It's a snippet from the Smashing Pumpkins' melancholy 1995 ballad Tonight, Tonight. "It has a very dramatic feel to it," says Neal Tiles, Fox Sports executive vice president of marketing, "and it's instantly recognizable if you're young and male." How did Fox get the alt-rockers to sign off on the use of the song? Turns out Virgin, the Pumpkins' label, was promoting an upcoming best-of album and offered Fox the band's tracks. After Tiles asked for Tonight, Tonight, Pumpkins lead singer Billy Corgan, a big baseball fan, agreed to the deal. Says Tiles, "We're trying to get younger viewers to baseball, and this was a way to appeal to them."