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If Derek Jeter wants to move into male modeling full time after he retires from the New York Yankees, Tommy Hilfiger sounds like he's ready to offer the Captain a contract right on the spot.

Our photog spotted the fashion designer at LAX where we asked the obvious Yankees fan about Jeter's modeling prospects ... and Tommy was quick to point out that Derek already has a hit modeling career with multiple GQ covers under his belt.

Hope Solo is apologizing for the domestic violence incident from the weekend that resulted in her arrest.

They say a tie is like kissing your sister -- so how do you describe Thursday's U.S. World Cup match where they lost ... but still advanced to the next round?

NBA star Dirk Nowitzki called the situation "perfect" while out in New York City after the match went down. For Dirk -- who is German, but clearly has some love for the U.S. -- it really could not have gone down any better.

A giant porn company suffered a seismic loss in business when the U.S. World Cup team triumphantly lost to Germany Thursday ... with a notable gay exception.

The folks over at Bang Bros -- who run sites like Bang Bus, AssParade and TugJobs -- tell TMZ their network of sites took a 33% hit during the big match.

But for some reason ... its gay site, Gay Pawn, saw a rise in traffic ... to the tune of 23%.

Theories in the office:

-- It was a great 2-screen experience
-- The hot soccer players got people hot
-- Someone else controlled the TV set
-- The soccer players got the "curious" more curious
-- All that talk of headers ...

Not that there's anything wrong with any of our theories.

Vacation buddies Magic Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson are starting to dress alike ... walking around Portofino, Italy in matching plaid shorts.

The Johnsons and the Jacksons do Europe together every year with their families -- they hit Capri last year and Portofino for the first time back in 2011.

This time, Magic and Sam were photographed following their wives around as they were dragged around from shop to shop ... to shop .. to shop ... to shop.

It was Canada vs. Germany in NYC Wednesday as NBA stars Steve Nash and Dirk Nowitzki had the only international footie war happening outside of Brazil this week ... and TMZ Sports has the video.

The two stars, joined by other NBAers like Mason Plumlee and Kyrie Irving, showed up for "The Steve Nash Foundation Showdown" ... Nash's annual charity soccer game.

For the record ... Nash's team won the game, but Dirk won the MVP.

The man who allegedly killed Adrian Peterson's son last year should NEVER have been released from jail ... so says the boy's grandmother who says the suspect is a dangerous sociopath.

As we previously reported, the suspect in the murder case -- Joseph Robert Patterson -- was arrested earlier this week on suspicion of kidnapping the child's mother, Ashley Doohan, and attacking her.

Patterson had been free after posting the $750k bond that was set after he was arrested for murder last year -- and now Ashley's mother tells TMZ Sports the judge should NOT make the same mistake twice.

"He's a sociopath," she tells us ... "We're fine, as long as [Patterson] remains locked up."

Ashley's mother tells us she's heard rumblings that her daughter and Patterson had reconciled after Patterson allegedly killed her son last year ... but her mom says the rumors are completely FALSE.

Luis Suárez the Uruguayan player who bit an Italian player during a World Cup match earlier this week, has been banned by FIFA for nine games and four months.

Uruguay advanced to the knockout round of the World Cup and they are scheduled to play Colombia on Saturday ... sans Suarez, of course.

The incident took place in the 80th minute of Uruguay's match with Italy. They went on to win 1-0.

This is the 3rd time Suárez has been accused of using his pearly whites during a game. He was suspended for five games for biting at the beginning of the season.

The United States World Cup soccer team has a secret weapon ... and it's none other than RON F'N BURGUNDY!!!!!

Will Ferrell crashed the U.S. party in Recife, Brazil Wednesday night to rile up the fans before today's HUUUUUUGE match with Germany.

Ferrell was jokingly introduced as the team's newest player, where he promised the crowd he will take a bite out of each and every German player ... if that's what it takes to win.

Chew on that, Germany!

Bert Fields -- who can reduce a grown-ass man to tears -- has been tapped to cross-examine Donald Sterling in his fight to block the sale of the L.A. Clippers.

TMZ Sports has learned ... Shelly Sterling's lawyer, Pierce O'Donnell, will try the case when it goes to trial ... examining doctors, financial guys and many others. We're told O'Donnell has asked Fields -- his law partner -- to do the honors when Sterling takes the stand.

Fields is known for brutal cross-examination. He would not discuss his strategy, but he did say if the judge allows Donald to challenge the findings of doctors that he isn't mentally competent to run the team, his goal will be to show the judge Donald has lost it ... and that could be brutal.

Fields told us he cross-examined a guy last year who broke down in tears on the stand. He says, "I thought it would have an impact on the jury, and it did ... I won."

The famed lawyer also says it's almost inevitable the tapes first posted on TMZ Sports will be introduced in the trial.

If LeBron James had any plans for a sequel to "The Decision," he should scrap 'em now -- because NBA star Kenneth Faried tells TMZ Sports another televised special would be a HORRIBLE idea.

The Manimal was out in L.A. on Tuesday when we posed the question to him ... would LeBron DARE do another primetime sit down, considering how poorly the first one went over?

Faried was dead set against the idea and seemed to think LeBron would be too.

If Shogo Kubo was going to die, dying while doing a sick skateboarding move would have been the best way to go ... so says his former Z-Boy friend and famed filmmaker Stacy Peralta.

Peralta tells TMZ Sports he was shocked to hear of Kubo's passing, but that he had not seen his former skateboarding friend in over 20 years ... at the premiere of Peralta's documentary, "Dogtown and Z-Boys."

"We were all outsiders, but he was a triple outsider," Peralta told TMZ Sports. "He actually learned to speak English through skateboarding. He didn't have any money, so we were always pitching in for him, but no one cared. As a human, he was incredibly sweet."

Dating an actress is way better than dating a football player ... and Aaron Rodgers proved it Tuesday night in New York City.

Rodgers was Olivia Munn's date to a screening of "Deliver Us From Evil," her new movie. In his role as her boyfriend, Rodgers got to put on a nice suit, hang out with some famous people, and eat and drink for free.

If the shoe was on the other foot -- and Munn had to show up for one of Rodgers' games -- she'd be wearing three sweatshirts, a jacket, mittens, a hat, a scarf, earmuffs, and long johns ... while sitting in the freezing cold and shoved in between two over-sized Cheeseheads.

Kobe Bryant still loves to dunk ... except this time it's not basketballs over defenders, it's adorable tykes into the Agean sea.

The NBA star -- still recovering from a season-ending injury -- hit up Mykonos, Greece this week with wife Vanessa and daughters Natalia and Gianna.

With his new favorite team Spain eliminated from the World Cup, and the Lakers being in total shambles, seems like as good a time as any for a lil Mamba break.