This weekend was a murderer’s row of pool openings with Tao Beach and Wet Republic holding grand openings plus Snoop at the first edition of Rehab for the season. Today, Venus Pool Club at Caesars Palace gets under way as yet another spot you can doff your bikini top for European style bathing. When in Venus, do like the Venusians.

Talib Kweli and a friend dropped in at Drai’s inside Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall & Saloon Friday night, while huge fan of the venue Suge Knight came around on Saturday. We’d have thought by know Suge would be training, Rocky style to get himself back into “don’t sucker punch this guy” shape, but what do we know?

It wasn’t just musicians (or Death Row moguls) out and about during the weekend. The requisite athlete contingent showed up, too. Boston Celtics center Scott Pollard was at Venus Pool Club at Caesars Palace Saturday for champagne and margaritas.

Steven Jackson of the St. Louis Rams dined at Dos Caminos inside The Palazzo Friday night, while Fix at Bellagio hit it big Saturday with Jermaine O’Neal of the Toronto Raptors doing shots of Patron with the Celtics’ Paul Pierce. The Great One, No. 99, Wayne Gretzky, meanwhile was at a separate table for lobster tacos with his wife and family. Sidelined Angels pitcher Kelvim Escobar also brought the family to Fix, opting for the pork chops.

O’Neal was at it again on Sunday, doing Brunch at Hash House A Go Go (6800 W. Sahara Ave.) for waffles, which we’re probably correct to assume were ginormous.

It can’t be that great in Beverly Hills, as star of the soon-to-come and soon-to-go new 90210 series, AnnaLynn McCord, picked Vegas as the venue for her 21st birthday. We can only assume the Peach Pit was full up.

McCord started the day in a VIP cabana at Venus Pool Club at Caesars, where basketball player Shawn Marion and boxer Sergio Mora were also spotted being model citizens. 

With an entourage of family and friends on her heels, McCord, who has also done work on Nip/Tuck, stopped at Social House in Treasure Island for yellowtail jalapeno and Kobe sliders before sashaying over to Pure, also at Caesars, where an amazing remix of the 90210 theme song, complete with fist-pumping, was not played. McCord was spotted at Venus Pool Club again on Sunday.

Luxor’s LAX saw Jamie Foxx continue his march up and down the clubs last night as he drank Veuve Clicquot on the VIP stage, near Sopranos actor Joe Gannascoli. Gannascoli played Vito Spatafore, everyone’s favorite gay mobster who died having a broomstick shoved up his ass.

That, kids, is why crime doesn’t pay.

Also at the club were enemy of good taste Jerry Bruckheimer, singer/songwriter Ryan Cabrera, Marcus Banks of the Miami Heat and Milwaukee Bucks draftee Joe Alexander. If we had known Bruckheimer was going to be around, we’d have brought our script to pitch. It’s a tender biopic of the life of Harriet Tubman, wherein shit blows up all up and down the Underground Railroad. We see Tracy Morgan delivering an Oscar-winning turn as Tubman.

Meanwhile, at sister venue Venus Pool club at Caesars Palace, Garth Brooks hosted a private event alongside Trisha Yearwood to benefit Brooks’ Teammates for Kids Foundation. The list of sports figures in attendance eclipses even the number of hacky Chris Gaines jokes made since 1999.

Among the slew of athletes were: Denver Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler, San Diego Chargers linebacker Derek Smith, Buffalo Bills guard Jason Whittle, San Francisco 49ers linebacker Jeff Ulbrich and Miami Dolphins tight end Justin Peelle.

But wait! That’s not all! Current and former NFLers included: Troy Bienemann (Arizona Cardinals), Tim Euhus (Arizona Cardinals), Aaron Merz (Buffalo Bills), Dave Kadela (Carolina Panthers), Daniel Coats (Cincinnati Bengals), Brad Cieslak (Cleveland Browns), Jim Ryan (Denver Broncos), Daniel Campbell (Detroit Lions), Jon Ryan (Green Bay Packers), John Denney (Miami Dolphins), Health Farwell (Minnesota Vikings), John Dorenbos (Philadelphia Eagles), Nick Murphy (Philadelphia Eagles), Craig Terrill (Seattle Seahawks), Donnie Jones (St. Louis Rams), Nick Leckey (St. Louis Rams), Kenneth Amato (Tennessee Titans), Ray Carolin (retired), John Goldsberry (retired), Austin King (former Seattle Seahawk); NHL players Shane Hnidy (Boston Bruins), David Backes (St. Louis Blues), Greg DeVries (Nashville Predators), Vernon Fiddler (Nashville Predators), Chris Dingman (retired), Brian Engblom (retired player, current ESPN analyst) and Pat Verbeek (retired). Olympic swimmer Kelly Brook was also there. If only they could’ve gotten two decathletes and an equestrian jumper, too.

With The View taping in town, it was inevitable that Barbara Walters would turn her head for a hot second and have the rest of her coffee klatch wander away, unsupervised. Elisabeth Hasslebeck and Sherri Shepherd settled in at a VIP cabana at Caesars Palace’s Venus Pool Club yesterday, although we suspect that the pool’s Romanesque decor confused Shepherd, who still hasn’t quite nailed down the concept of Before Christ and Anno Domini.

You know that part in the Bible where there’s an Old Testament that all takes place before the birth of Christ? Sheri Shepherd is effectively arguing that it couldn’t have happened because nothing predates Jesus. Take that, logic. We are impressed, though, that she managed to make Whoopi the voice of reason. Of course, this is also a woman who repeatedly said she’d have to do a little fact checking before she’d come down hard on one side or the other in the the whole flat-Earth vs. round-Earth debate.

Boxer Sergio Mora was also poolside again yesterday. Although we imagine he spent most of the day hanging on Shepherd’s every word, in case she might’ve let it drop that cavemen used to drive around in foot-powered cars.

Linebacker Junior Seau, late of the 18-1 New England Patriots (Did we mention they were 18-1? They definitely were 18-1. Because they lost. To the Giants. In the Super Bowl. No, that won’t ever get old, but thanks for asking.) spent Monday afternoon drinking Corona and Southern Comfort at the Venus Pool Club at Caesars Palace in a VIP cabana.

From there, Seau and company went over to Social House for dinner on the patio, sake bombs, and quiet jealousy over the fact that Amani Toomer and Eli Manning have Super Bowl rings.

Zowie Bowie was also spotted at Social House Monday, while other local fixtures Carrot Top and Mike Tyson made it to Pure last night. Much like Seau and teammate Rodney Harrison, neither Carrot Top nor Tyson were able to subvert fate, destiny and an acrobatic David Tyree in front of 70,000 screaming fans on Feb. 3.