This thing is getting HOT.

Madonna spent this weekend doing tour dates in Mexico City — and whaddya know? Alex Rodriguez also spent this weekend in Mexico City, teaching kids to bat at a new sports center built on a landfill in the poor suburb of Nezahualcoyotl. He was invited to inaugurate the sports center by Mexico’s richest man, Carlos Slim, whose Telmex Foundation sponsored its construction. The site includes two baseball diamonds and 25 soccer fields.

When Alex was asked by reporters about the scheduling coincidence, he said it was “very good,” refusing to comment further.

Meanwhile, Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet Tour brought in $91.5M from its U.S. and Canada dates alone.

Counting her European run, Madonna is at about $207.5 million in ticket sales and on a pace to hit about $282 million when the Mexico/South America leg of the tour wraps. That would make Sticky & Sweet the top-grossing tour ever by a female artist or solo artist.

Very impressive, Miss Madge.

Well, the rest of the media is finally getting around to reporting what I told you guys over a day ago: Alex Rodriguez was sitting front-row at the Madonna concert on Wednesday night in Miami.

In fact, he even handed her a water bottle. “It was easy for him to hand it off because he was sitting in the front row,” says an eyewitness. “He was all excited watching her perform.”

The two spent the entire day together on Wednesday before the show.

If they were trying to hide their relationship before, they’re not anymore.

So why did A-Rod make the public appearance with his family on Tuesday night? Why would his wife have co-signed on that? I totally understand them spending time together for the good of the kids, but why invite the paparazzi? The day before he’s going to publicly debut his relationship with Madge? It doesn’t make any sense at all. It makes them all look like douchebags, IMHO. Theories?

Hmmm …

A-Rod’s soon-to-be ex-wife, Cynthia Rodriguez, has reportedly written a scathing email to a friend which “leaked” to the press:

My 6-foot-3, 220-pound soul-less, soon-to-be ex-husband is abandoning his kids on Thanksgiving to be with Madonna … She called and he ran on her command back to New York City … Gross!

Listen, I don’t claim to know much in this world, but I can say with a fair amount of certainty that A-Rod’s wife is nowhere near that adept with a hyphen. This shit was written by a publicist.

It may, however, be true that Alex is ditching his fam to spend Thanksgiving with Madonna and her kiddos, which might be shitty, unless there’s some sort of agreement in place that Cynthia gets the kids this holiday and is just trying to make A-Rod look bad in the press.

Either way, I don’t really give a shit.

Welp, it’s gonna be official! Madonna and Guy Ritchie will be granted a preliminary divorce decree at the High Court in London on Friday. After six weeks and a day, the divorce would be made final.

As to whether or not it was a messy divorce settlement, the various camps are disagreeing:

According to the British press, Madonna, 50, and Ritchie, 40, reached a settlement over money and their kids Lourdes, 12, Rocco, 8, and David, 3. London’s Evening Standard reports that Madonna will keep the bulk of her estimated $500 million fortune intact, though Ritchie was entitled by law to a share of it.

Additionally, Rocco and David will split time between the U.S. and London, while Lourdes, whose father is Carlos Leon, will live with her mother.

“[Madonna] walked away without any of his money, much to her credit,” a friend told the U.K.’s Times. “He has done the same.”

“He could have hugely boosted his bank balance and set himself up for life, but he already feels he has enough money,” another pal told the paper. “He also didn’t want the whole thing dragging on in the public gaze for months and months and, in any case, his priority was the children’s future.”

But a source close to the couple insists that’s not true. “He’s going to get a huge windfall, contrary to what’s being reported,” the source tells PEOPLE. “He’s getting a lot of money from the settlement. He’s not the gentleman he’s portraying himself as.”

My Lord, I can’t wait until Guy Ritchie writes a book — or, better yet, a screenplay! — about this insanity. He probably doesn’t need any of Madonna’s money because he’s going to make so much cash selling her out after this shit is over.

At a Gucci/UNICEF benefit dinner in NYC.

Also there: Blake Lively, Rihanna, Penn Badgley, Mary J. Blige, Timbaland and Adrian Grenier.

The Material Divorcee is reportedly being paid a whopping $10M to appear in the 2009 Louis Vuitton ads. The ads will be shot by Steven Meisel, who did Madge’s notorious 1992 book, Sex.

So they’re paying her $10M — and they’ll probably spend another $10M paying the airbrushers!

Madge better help move a lot of product!

Here are some of the early photos of Britney on stage with Madonna at her show in LA on Thursday night.

Um … is anyone a little worried by the fact that Britney looks like the grown-up on this stage? Honestly, like, this is what I feel like it would be like if Katy Perry’s minister mom did a guest appearance at one of her shows. Like, “Yes, dear, that’s an interesting outfit you have on there. Sure does look like you’re having fun! Ha ha. Oh, and is that … uh … a skull on your guitar strap? How very … creative, dear. My, this sure is neat, this whole thing where you stand on stage in your underwear on purpose. Don’t you think you might be getting a bit old for this, darling? No? Fine. Are you through embarrassing me now? Okay then. I’ll be off.”