The Beat

Last week former Ohio State linebacker A.J. Hawk, 22, entered into two long-term arrangements. On Saturday he said, "I do," to the Packers (who took him fifth overall in the draft), accepting a six-year, $37.5 million offer. That was four days after he and Laura Quinn (below), 23, were married by a Green Bay lawyer. (Quinn, the sister of Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn, is best known for wearing a homemade half-Irish, half-Buckeyes jersey to the 2006 Fiesta Bowl.) The nuptials came a year after the pair started dating-and eight months before a planned St. Patrick's Day ceremony in Columbus, Ohio. After buying a house in Green Bay in May, they decided to move up their wedding date. "A.J. didn't want to be living as boyfriend and girlfriend," the father of the groom, Keith Hawk, told the Dayton Daily News. "He's old school in everything he does, including this."

Ben Roethlisberger isn't going to let a couple of nicks and bruises keep him away from the camera. On July 19 the Steelers quarterback (who suffered a broken jaw and chipped teeth in a June 12 motorcycle accident) joined the Povertyneck Hillbillies, a Pittsburgh country band, at Heinz Field to appear in a video for their song Mr. Right Now. Afterward Roethlisberger-who says he is "not a big fan of country music"-invited his new friends to his house to barbecue steaks and burgers. A week later the 24-year-old mugged for a Campbell's Chunky Soup print ad, after which he said, "I feel like I look pretty normal."

" Laguna Beach with a little bit of football on top"--that's how one former Hoover (Ala.) High player describes the reality show Two-a-Days. MTV taped the series, which premieres on Aug. 23, in 2005, when the Buccaneers won their fourth straight state championship. But Alex Binder, 18, a former Bucs safety who now plays baseball at an Alabama community college, says the show will more likely be about the players' personal lives. Cameras followed several, including Binder, on dates and into their homes. "I can only hope I come out looking like a decent guy," says Binder. "But I think I probably screwed up a few times."

Does "Macho Man" Randy Savage wear his WWF championship belt to bed? Does Phil Hellmuth keep a poker face 24 hours a day? We may soon find out. Hellmuth, a 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, will join Savage and other celebrities (or more precisely "celebrities"), including Carrot Top and Dabney Coleman, this fall on the seventh season of VH1's Surreal Life.... Hellmuth didn't have much luck at the World Series of Poker main event. He was bounced from the 8,600-player field in six hours, which he wrote off to "horrendous, horrendous luck." Others sent home early included actors Norm MacDonald, who briefly held the chip lead, and Shannon Elizabeth. Meanwhile Dax Shepard of Punk'd and comedian Louie Anderson were punished for working blue. They each had to sit out for 10 minutes for cursing at the table.