The Beat

FORMER SLUGGER Jose Canseco said in an A&E documentary last week that he was sorry he wrote his 2005 steroid tell-all, Juiced. "The more I think about it, the more I regret mentioning these players in my book," he said. "I admired them; I respected them." Maybe it's karma, but Canseco's career hasn't exactly prospered since the book. After getting knocked out by Vai Sikahema in a boxing match in July, Canseco is preparing to get back into the ring for a January bout with Partridge Danny Bonaduce. . . . Ashton Kutcher (below) may have a career in coaching if the acting thing doesn't pan out. As the first-year football coach at Harvard-Westlake High (North Hollywood), Kutcher has the Wolverines off to a 4-2 start. "Though coaching football is no great step for mankind . . . it's a great step for me," says Kutcher, who played linebacker at Clear-Creek Amana High in Tiffin, Iowa. "I'm not there to teach them; they are there to teach me." . . . Swimmer Michael Phelps has been learning to play poker in Las Vegas lately, and last week he reached the final table of the Caesars Palace Poker Classic. He finished ninth of 187 entrants, earning a gold Caesars Palace medallion to go with his 14 Olympic gold medals.

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