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According to recent reports, baseball slugger Alex Rodriguez - who went 0-for-4 with a strikeout last night at Fenway Park - has been smashing home runs off the field with Kate Hudson more often than on it with the New York Yankees.

Not everyone is thrilled with this new, sexy couple however. Kate's mother, Goldie Hawn, has reportedly cautioned Kate about the new relationship.

Kate was first linked to the baseball star last month and both are said to be “somewhat serious” about the relationship - with A-Rod introducing the actress to his pals (which he apparently has) and Kate attending a bunch of his recent games.

But a source close to the family has said that Goldie Hawn is worried that the romance will go the same as her previous relationships since splitting from husband Chris Robinson, with whom she has a son, Ryder, in the summer of 2006.

Alex Rodriguez is batting a lackluster .238 so far this MLB season, but with his conquest of Kate Hudson, he's proving himself a prime time player just the same.

“Goldie feels it’s time Kate left the dating scene for a while," says a source. “Kate’s had a string of boyfriends since her divorce from Chris and it’s always the same pattern - she falls hard and fast, then gets bored or has her heart broken.

“Goldie hates the idea of seeing Kate getting hurt again.”

Over the past three years, Kate Hudson has dated Lance Armstrong, Owen Wilson and Dax Shepard, among others. Last year, A-Rod’s wife Cynthia Rodriguez filed for a divorce on the grounds of his “spiritual affair” with Madonna.

Madge later dumped him for a physical affair with Jesus Luz, but still claims credit for elevating his celebrity status and enabling him to bag Hudson.

Alex Rodriguez went 1-for-3 with a run in the Yankees' 4-3 win over the Rays yesterday ... then may have scored in a different way later that night!

Enjoying a swanky evening out, the Rod and rumored fling Kate Hudson were spotted out and about in New York City at the famed 40/40 nightclub.

They exited separately to avoid being photographed together, but don't think it was a coincidence that both happened to be there at the same time ...

K-ROD: Kate Hudson and A-Rod step out again in N.Y. City.

Kate Hudson looked sexy in a teal green dress with black heels, while Alex Rodriguez was his casual, handsome self in a button-up shirt and jeans.

Rumors that A-Rod and Kate are dating popped up two weeks ago, then were fueled by Hudson's frequent visits to Yankee Stadium to see her man.

Yankees star Alex Rodriguez is just 6-for-26 with three RBIs in his last seven games. Maybe he's simply reserving all of his home runs for Kate Hudson!

Awful baseball intros aside, A-Rod and Kate Hudson were spotted getting cozy last month, and a source now confirms that the two stars are dating.

"It's somewhat serious," a People spy says in its upcoming issue.

"He's already introduced her to a bunch of his friends."

We're not sure what info from the above two sentences is harder to believe - that it's somewhat serious already, or that A-Rod has any friends left.

All we know is Madonna takes credit for the sexy new couple!

A-Rod and K-Hud = K-Rod? [Photos: Fame Pictures]

For her part, Kate Hudson followed Rodriguez on the road late last month to Dallas, when the Yankees played the Texas Rangers in a three-game series.

The actress and son Ryder, 5 (whose dad is Chris Robinson), stayed at the same hotel as A-Rod, and the couple "worked out together in the fitness center."

Guess that's what they're calling it now.

For one of the games, she sent Ryder and his nanny to the ballpark while she "stayed behind and watched the game from the hotel," adds the eyewitness.

"She remarked several times about what a big baseball fan she is!"

Will the off-field fireworks last through the grueling season? Will A-Rod pull out ... of his recent mini-slump and actually hit after September?

Another source says it's too early to tell: "You never know."

What benefits come with that friendship? Use your imagination!

After learning that Jesus Luz is referring to her as "just a friend," Madonna is gonna be far from pleased. Heck, she may even kick his ass off the couch in her New York City apartment ... where he has allegedly been living.

"She is my friend ... only my friend," the hunky 22-year-old model said in his first-ever TV interview on the Brazilian TV program Fantastico.

Luz also denied he and Madge are "going to the temple" anytime soon to make it official - even though his dad, Luiz Heitor Pinto da Luz, recently spoke to Quem magazine about the pair's upcoming commitment ceremony.

"Madonna is a person who I admire very much, a friend who has entered my life and [with whom] I keep in contact. I cannot say anything more than I don't have plans of marrying her. I can't say if she is the woman in my life," he said.

Jesus Luz also touched on the oft-used moniker ascribed to him, "boy toy," and strangely didn't seem all that bothered by the less-than-flattering term.

"Frankly, I never give importance to what others say about me," the chosen one said. "They can write that I'm a 'toy boy' or 'boy toy.' And I won't care."

According to reports, Jesus Luz is currently living in the Central Park West apartment owned by Madge. Well, at least until he moves to the doghouse.

How Madonna truly feels about his comments, we can't say - but she is happy that another recent ex, Alex Rodriguez, has moved on with actress Kate Hudson.

"Madonna is actually relieved that A-Rod seems so happy with Kate," says a source. "He's always treated women like he treats home runs anyway."

"He's getting a great batting average here. In fact, Madonna is actually proud that she's raised the bar for him, so he can date a better caliber of women."

Sources say that Kate Hudson and A-Rod have been secretly seeing one another for the past month and a half, but are still trying to keep things quiet.

"When she hits Yankee Stadium, she sits in A-Rod's private seats," says a New York Daily News source. "They're absolutely giddy when they're together."

Too bad Madonna and Jesus Luz are just "friends" and a double-date is out of the question. He's already got the Yankees cap on and everything.

After missing a good month and a half, it's good to see Alex Rodriguez back playing the field again. He's also returned to the Yankees after rehabbing his injured hip.

Proving he's over his "affair of the heart" with Madonna, the blue-lipped head case has been getting it on with Kate Hudson, according to various Big Apple sources.

After Friday’s game, in which the Yankees defeated the Minnesota Twins, the two had an early-morning make-out session at Mustang Grill, New York Magazine says.

The Alex Rodriguez and Kate Hudson rumors were further fueled Saturday when she was spotted in the front row at Yankee Stadium, cheering on her man.

A-Rod homered in the 11th inning ... and perhaps went deep later that night as well after he left Lure Fishbar in Manhattan with the actress in tow!

Are Alex Rodriguez and Kate Hudson dating?

Whether he and Kate Hudson are an item or just having fun - and what scandal, baseball or gossip-related, is going to plague A-Rod next - is not known.

We just hope he doesn't need any "performance enhancers" off the field, if you know what we mean. And that he bats better than .188 with the ladies.

Talk about a tough act to follow.

Single father Jason Mesnick's starring turn on The Bachelor was already the reality show's best-rated in years before he chose Melissa Rycroft on the finale, then dumped her for runner-up Molly Malaney on the "After the Final Rose" special.

After the dust settled, Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney resumed their normal lives and seem happy getting to know each other in their relationship, while Melissa Rycroft has become a sensation on a second ABC show, Dancing with the Stars.

The Bachelor is going to need a heck of an encore.

Seriously, how do you top that if you're ABC? Who should even star? No idea who the 14th star of The Bachelor will be when the show returns next season, but we put together a short list of folks we'd love to see follow in Jason's footsteps:

Barron Hilton. Rich and ready to get his $h!t started.

Adam Lambert. Forget handing out roses; the American Idol favorite will toss them from a stage as he serenades the ladies lucky enough to remain by his talented side.

Brody Jenner. Okay, so he's already seeing Jayde Nicole nude every night. Not a lot he can do to top that. But things happen, and if it were to go south between The Hills star and the Playmate of the Year, what better way to rebound?

Alex Rodriguez. Think of how many Bachelor records the Yankees star could shatter - manliest-looking babes ever to make the final two, most time preening before dates, trips to second base in hot tub, home runs in the fantasy suite, etc.

Chris Harrison. The Bachelor host-pimp is a great master of ceremonies, but he really needs to get in on some of the action, don't you think? Imagine this "After the Final Rose" stunner: he's been married for 15 years ... and is staying with his wife!

Which of these stars should be the next Bachelor? Vote in our poll below, and leave a comment with your own suggestion (serious or otherwise) ...

The high-priced former madam who used to provide prostitutes for former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer provided the same services for New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez and dated him, the New York Daily News reported yesterday.

Kristin Davis, who spent three months in jail and is currently on five years' probation after pleading guilty to promoting prostitution, spoke to Newsday about the Rod.

"All I can say is there is a connection," said Kristin, a.k.a. Kristen Davis, and a.k.a. Billie Davis, when asked about A-Rod. She declined to comment on the allegations, saying specifically that she "doesn't talk about my personal life or who I date."

In the Daily News, she intimated that she was personally wooed by Alex Rodriguez. ESPN also reports A-Rod had a "personal and professional relationship" with her, which can only mean she sent him up with hookers and also boinked him.

Spitzer, who resigned in disgrace after the FBI busted him nailing Ashley Dupre, was referred to as "Client No. 9" by the call-girl ring, which Davis says had "10,000 rich, powerful and famous clients." Was A-Rod client No. 13?

"Throughout the years, there were a number of clients that I befriended and it was not uncommon for them to want the women they can't have, whether it be the phone bookers or the madam," Davis told Newsday semi-cryptically.

The Daily News story also included steamy e-mails purportedly between Davis and Rodriguez. Davis said "Other people have access to my client records as well as my personal information, and I can't control what has been released."

Rodriguez is divorced and has been linked to pop icon Madonna. A-Rod and Madonna have denied they are or were involved, but Rodriguez's former wife, Cynthia Rodriguez, cited A-Rod's "long period of infidelity" in divorce papers.

Alex's stormy recent months have also included a revelation by SI.com that he failed a steroid test, a hip injury that led him to have surgery, and a ridiculously lame Details magazine photo that shows him kissing himself in a mirror.

He is rehabbing his hip in Vail, Colo., and allegedly banging anything that moves.

Click to enlarge more photos of Kristin Davis, madam to the stars:

[Photo Credits: Splash News Online]

Baseball great Alex Rodriguez is not exactly pining away by his lonesome out in Vail, Colo., where he's on the mend from recent hip surgery, according to sources.

In addition to romancing and getting to second base with his favorite human being - himself - in those narcissistic Details photos, he's making time for the ladies.

A-Rod reportedly has been hosting a "revolving door" of gorgeous beauties at his rented condo - one sexy ski bunny after the next, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

"I've never seen anything like it," a Vail observer laughed about Rodriguez. "His nickname [of A-Rod] is very appropriate." Yes it is. In so many ways, really.

GOTTA LIMBER UP: Alex Rodriguez may be rehabbing an injured hip, but the New York Yankees slugger is still playing the field and hitting plenty of home runs.

"'The guy's been busy day and night. I thought hip surgery meant you had to keep your hips immobile for a while." Well, it doesn't rule out ... forget it.

One thing's clear: He's over Madonna.

The superstar supposedly phoned the other night, but Alex Rodriguez ducked her call - claiming he was getting "treatment" for his healing hip when he was merely partying it up with several lovely ladies in the hot tub.

Ah, to be severely injured and overpaid.

Baseball's biggest star and biggest egomaniac posed for a series of HOT A-Rod-on-A-Rod fantasy pics in a new spread for the men's magazine Details.

Seriously, this is a weird ass collection of Alex Rodriguez photos.

We're guessing the Rod is a pretty big fan of himself. Just a hunch.

Girl-on-girl action is one thing, but guy-on-guy? The same guy? Peep it ...

Alex Rodriguez can't get close enough to his favorite human being.

Not sure what this so-called damned Yankee is confessing to now - taking steroids, sucking in the playoffs, dating manly strippers? - but do have to give the magazine credit for the "How Jesus Can Save Your Career" headline on the cover below.

Madonna allegedly dumped the Rod for model Jesus Luz. The irony.

If this sort of thing appeals to you, click to enlarge many more homoerotic and narcissistic pictures of the injured, disgraced baseball star ...

While Alex Rodriguez bashes meaningless Spring Training homers, Jesus Luz continues to circle the bases with the lovely object of both their affections.

Worse yet for A-Rod, Luz is making an impression with her kids.

While the nurturing of their romance through Kabbalah (and a steamy W mag photo shoot) is generating plenty of celeb gossip heat, there may be another dynamic worth noticing in the affair of hot Brazilian model Jesus Luz and Madonna.

E! Online reports that the pop queen took her 22-year-old paramour to Los Angeles' Kabbalah Center on trendy Robertson Boulevard last Saturday.

While the former Mrs. Ritchie may be making an impression on Jesus Luz, it was Luz taking the time to get to know Madonna's eight-year-old son, Rocco.

"He was playing with Rocco than paying attention to Madonna," a source says, noting that Luz was also seen with Madonna and adopted David Banda.

Madonna and Jesus Luz in NYC. [Photo: Splash News]

Daughter Lourdes would be the last in the trifecta of children to impress as he strives to win family favor. Still, her PR peeps deny any romance with Jesus Luz.

"Clichéd as it sounds, they're really just friends," Madge's rep Liz Rosenberg said.

Of course, Rosenberg also vehemently denied Madonna and Guy Ritchie's marriage was in trouble until they divorced. Madonna and A-Rod were allegedly just pals too, until they were clearly getting it on. So basically she's full of it.

Is Madge just using Jesus Luz to make Alex Rodriguez jealous - after he ran home to ex-wife Cynthia Rodriguez in the wake of his positive steroid test - or did A-Rod blow his shot? Did he snooze and Luz out to a younger, hotter boy toy?