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Here's the skinny on Bonds in Vegas
Home run king Barry Bonds is a shadow of his former self.
Bonds showed up in Las Vegas over the weekend, looking like he's lost 30 to 40 pounds from his bulked-up, record-breaking days when he weighed about 240 pounds.
Vegas Confidential spotted the much-skinnier retired slugger at N9NE Steakhouse at the Palms on Friday with a girlfriend. Bonds also was seen at XS nightclub at Encore on Saturday.
Bonds, who played his last big league game in September 2007, spent his final seasons at the center of baseball's steroids scandal. The government indicted him that year on allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice in the investigation of BALCO, a San Francisco-area laboratory that was accused of supplying steroids to Major League Baseball players.
Bonds, 45, has denied the use of steroids. He finished his career with a record 762 homers, including the single-season mark of 73 in 2001.
BENJI TATTOOS RIKI
Good Charlotte guitarist Benji Madden made short work of former MTV host Riki Rachtman in their celebrity grudge match Saturday.
The fight was stopped after one minute and 40 seconds when Madden, 31, floored Rachtman, 45, for the third time during their bout at the Hard Rock Hotel.
Rachtman had promised in a YouTube.com interview to "play around with him, bat him around like a kitten."
Rachtman added, "If the boxing doesn't work, I'm gonna fight him. And there's a big difference between boxing and fighting."
But he was singing a different tune afterward, whining on his Twitter site that Madden didn't play by rules.
"Benji was badass, but it was not boxing," tweeted Rachtman. He complained that Madden wrestled him and "hit me in the back of the head when I was down."
"None of that would have been allowed in boxing," said Rachtman, who was host of MTV's "Headbangers Ball" heavy metal show and of "Rock of Love."
Madden's twin brother, Joel, served as his cornerman.
THE SCENE AND HEARD
Chumlee, one of the young men in the reality TV hit "Pawn Stars," got singled out for some love on Thursday. Mayor Doug Hedrick of Greendale, Ind., population 4,298, dropped in the Gold and Silver pawn shop on Las Vegas Boulevard and presented a proclamation naming Thursday "Chumlee Day" and gave him a key to the city. Hedrick referred to Corey Harrison's sidekick "as the maligned but never daunted Chumlee."
SIGHTINGS
Wayne Newton, presented with a cake Saturday by the stagehands on his 68th birthday during his show at the Tropicana. The audience joined in singing "Happy Birthday."... Singer and 1970s-1980s Vegas headliner Pia Zadora at Penn & Teller on Saturday at the Rio. ... British singing star Leona Lewis, celebrating on Friday her 25th birthday at Pure in Caesars Palace. Hosting the party was her friend, model and actress Bijou Phillips. Lewis performed several of her hits. ... Former NBA star and UNLV great Larry Johnson, playing golf at Las Vegas Country Club on Sunday. ... Benji Madden, with "Peepshow" star and girlfriend Holly Madison at Wasted Space in Hard Rock Hotel and XS in Encore early Sunday.
THE PUNCH LINE
"Drilling will begin in Glenn Beck's yard." -- From David Letterman's Top Ten Highlights Of Barack Obama's Oil Drilling Plan.
Norm Clarke can be reached at 702-383-0244 or norm@reviewjournal.com. Find additional sightings and more online at www.normclarke.com.
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