Jets Super Bowl legend Joe Namath is getting blitzed by a former UPS driver who claims he was attacked by the grid great’s three dogs while making a delivery to Namath’s Florida home.

David Gunter, in a lawsuit filed in West Palm Beach, says Broadway Joe’s German shepherd, Weimaraner and Labrador retriever caused him to suffer “vicious and serious personal injuries” during the 2007 attack in Tequesta.

Gunter’s lawyers say that he hasn’t been able to work since then and that he needs four operations to repair his neck, back and a knee, The Post’s Rich Calder reports.

Namath’s lawyer didn’t respond to e-mails and telephone messages.

Namath’s dogs have caused trouble before. Other complaints were previously filed against two of them, and one, Leo the Labrador, was ordered last month to be muzzled and leashed full-time.

Before filing his suit, Gunter went before a special magistrate last month. “I was basically in fear of my life,” the ex-delivery man said.

At the hearing, Namath, 66, tried to claim that his dogs aren’t dangerous. “I have pictures at home of them with children,” he said. But WPBF-TV in Florida reported Namath also conceded, “They may be aggressive at times,” since “they’re dogs.”

Namath — who famously led the Jets to a 16-7 victory over the heavily favored Baltimore Colts in 1969 at Super Bowl III — defended his pooches:

“You’re talking about people aggressively attacking . . . I’ve had people come up to my kitchen window, up to my front door, and I don’t know who they are,” he said. “I say ‘Go away.’ I get fired up. My dogs infer that fired-up [attitude.]”

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Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z are to change their names.

The couple, who married in April 2008, are to take on both of their respective surnames in order to keep the ‘Crazy In Love’ star’s parental line from dying out.
Jay-Z – whose real name is Shawn Carter – will now be known as Shawn Knowles-Carter, while Beyonce is to become Beyonce Knowles-Carter.

A source told the Daily Star newspaper: “They want to keep Knowles because Beyonce’s parents didn’t have any sons and they’re keen to keep the name going strong, especially if they don’t produce any children themselves.”

Earlier this week, the Knowles family suffered a blow when it was announced that Beyonce’s parents Tina and Mathew would be divorcing after 29 years of marriage.

In October, rumours surfaced that Mathew may have been unfaithful, with a paternity suit filed by Alexandra Wright claiming he was the father of her unborn child – an allegation he has denied.

However, in a statement the estranged couple – who also have a daughter, Solange – claimed that the divorce would not be “an ugly, messy fight” and they would continue working together amicably.

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Gwyneth Paltrow might have run afoul of the Federal Trade Commission’s new guidelines for bloggers about paid endorsements, according to Web site Daily Finance.

In her online lifestyle newsletter, Goop, Paltrow heaped praise on La Mamounia Hotel in Morocco, which she visited over Thanksgiving during a VIP junket with Jennifer Aniston and Orlando Bloom. Paltrow, however, didn’t say whether or not she stayed at the hotel for free — a possible violation of a new FTC rule requiring bloggers to disclose such information.

Her rep didn’t get back to us.

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Football has long been the athletic stepchild at inner-city Crenshaw High School. Trophy cases are crammed with basketball awards. Gym walls are lined with hoops championship flags.

But the football team is undefeated this season and headed for the California state championship bowl game this weekend, and the coach attributes part of the success to an unlikely off-field source: rapper Snoop Dogg.

Nine of this year’s Crenshaw High School Cougars went through the 5-year-old Snoop Youth Football League, representing the first crop of varsity players to cut their teeth in the program. The league has produced standouts at other schools, but none has more players or a better record than Crenshaw.

The league has made Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, a savior of sorts for football in an impoverished area of Los Angeles where gangs roam many of the streets.

“It is more of an advantage to have kids who played in the Snoop Dogg league,” coach Robert Garrett said. “They also have the experience, the fundamentals and the attitude that guys who started from scratch don’t have.”

Broadus’ reputation for raunchy lyrics and run-ins with the law brought some initial apprehension from the mostly single mothers who wanted to enroll their sons.

“It was kind of hard to separate Snoop Dogg the entertainer from Snoop Dogg the coach, the father,” league Commissioner Haamid Wadood said.

But the league soon caught on, especially when fathers with criminal records learned they could coach, unlike most other youth sports. Broadus, himself a former gang member, has several convictions for drugs and weapons offenses, and if the league didn’t allow ex-cons, there wouldn’t be enough coaches.

“When you look at the demographics of the area, this is the reality of the situation,” Wadood said. “We don’t condone any of that, but we look at the nature of the offense, how recent it was.”

Sex offenders and domestic violence convicts, for instance, are banned from the sidelines.

The coaching exception has also reconnected boys with their dads, or at least with positive male role models in neighborhoods where fathers are often behind bars or otherwise absent.

The dads, many of them members of the rival Bloods and Crips, must agree to leave their gang disputes away from the field.

“This is kind of like a peace treaty,” Wadood said. “Everybody wants something better for their kids.”

Broadus, 38, launched the league in 2005 with $1 million of his own money after noticing that much of urban Los Angeles had no football for boys ages 5 to 13. He’s since invested about $300,000, Wadood said. The league now has 2,500 kids enrolled.

Broadus, who was promoting his new album “Malice in Wonderland” this week, would not comment.

The camaraderie that developed from playing together in the Snoop league has made the Crenshaw team a more cohesive, confident unit on and off the field. In a steamroller season, the Cougars have earned a 14-0 record, nabbing the Los Angeles city title.

“It’s like a big family,” said running back De’Anthony Thomas, a junior who sports a big gold and diamond cross pendant around his neck and who got his nickname “Black Mamba” in the Snoop league because of his speedy agility similar to the dangerous African snake.

It also helps team members fend off peer pressure to join gangs.

“It keeps me out of trouble, from hanging in places I shouldn’t be,” said wide receiver Geno Hall, a senior with diamond stud earrings. “It’s helped me to grow mentally.”

While Broadus’ larger-than-life figure was not the motivation for the kids to play football, his personal involvement boosts the self-esteem of boys who often receive little attention at home. The rapper attends games and allows his bodyguards to let players approach him freely.

Those intangibles, said coach Garrett, are invaluable for inner-city youth. The burly coach sees his job as much about taking a troubled team member home for food or clothing as it is about football. He lectures about keeping up grades and has imposed a rule requiring neckties, dress shirts and trousers on Fridays during season to get players out of the “hood culture.”

The success of Crenshaw and the Snoop league is capturing widespread attention. College recruiters have already approached players such as Thomas and Hall, and the league is fielding calls from cities such as Dallas and Pittsburgh that want to replicate the Snoop model.

In the short term, though, all eyes are on Saturday’s championship game against Concord De La Salle, to be televised statewide from the 27,000-seat Home Depot Center in nearby Carson.

For Crenshaw, where almost 40 percent of students drop out and about 70 percent of students receive free or cheaper lunches, excitement is high.

Students have held fundraisers to buy tickets for families who cannot afford them and provide bus transportation to the game. News crews have trooped across campus to film the team, but players are working to stay focused.

“I just get down on the field and play football,” Thomas said. “I’m blocking all that out.”

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Tiger Woods used to enjoy going to topless bars, but he always pretended he was a wide-eyed innocent who’d never seen a stripper before, sources say.

Before his fateful Thanksgiving car crash, Woods made regular trips to Scores whenever he was in town, according to the mammary mecca’s former manager, Tony Lombardi. The golf great was able to appear like a shy “virgin to strip clubs,” Lombardi said.

Woods’ acting talent came to light as we investigated how the billionaire had been able to conceal for so long his very energetic extramarital activities. It turns out he had a phalanx of handlers to pre- vent incriminating photos from being taken.

Tiger’s protectors include his gruff caddy, Steve Williams, a hulking New Zealander. His agent at IMG, Mark Steinberg, helped kill a National Enquirer story about his alleged romps with pancake-house hostess Mindy Lawson by offering Woods as a cover to sister publication Men’s Fitness.

While out on the town, Woods was careful not to approach any potential conquests himself, preferring to let a member of his entourage make the introduction.

“There are always a lot of other people around, so it’s never one on one — it all looked very normal,” night-life impresario Rocco Ancarola told The Post’s Brad Hamilton.

“It camouflages what’s going on. He’d just point and say, ‘Who’s that?’ and they’d go over and say, ‘Tiger Woods wants to meet you.’ And they would never leave together.”

Ancarola, who later hired Woods’ mistress Rachel Uchitel to lure VIPs to his Pink Elephant club, said Tiger benefited from an industrywide reluctance to whisper about wealthy customers — an omerta policy Ancarola plans for his new restaurant, Rabbit in the Moon, in the West Village.

“We in the business do that without thinking about it,” he said. “You tend to protect the celebrities.”

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Miranda Kerr may be very much in love with A-list actor Orlando Bloom, but it turns out that the Victoria’s Secret Angel wouldn’t mind having a dinner date with another British heartthrob.

“I’ve always had a big crush on Prince William since I was a little girl,” Kerr told Pop Tarts recently at the Victoria’s Secret Store in The Grove in Los Angeles.

We asked Kerr what must one do to look as good as a girl who makes millions legging it in lingerie for the VS label.

“I drink lots of water and get as much sleep as possible,” Kerr explained. “I recommend drinking fresh, organic green juices and doing lots of yoga.”

The 26-year-old Australian native has also embraced a form of Japanese Buddhism – Nichiren Buddhism – which, despite her angel wings, keeps her feet flat on the floor.

“I don’t like to talk too much about it, but what I will say is that it is very grounding and really centering,” she said.

But for those of you who will never achieve her physique (ie: about 99.99% of us), don’t despair! The November airing of the famed fashion show on CBS drew in an average of 8.3 million viewers, but it seems Americans prefer watching larger folks pop pounds.

According to the Nielsen TV ratings, “The Biggest Loser” won the time slot, with 10.3 million tuning in.

So have another donut and relax. You can be a TV star, too.

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The baby boy keeping New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and supermodel wife Gisele Bundchen awake at night has a name: Benjamin.

The baby was born Dec. 8. But the day after the birth, Brady said he and Bundchen hadn’t chosen a name. Word finally came out Friday when Bundchen posted a holiday message on her Web site.

Bundchen revealed the baby’s name when she wrote, “Benjamin is a blessing and I could not be happier.”

Brady and Bundchen were married in February. Benjamin is Bundchen’s first child. Brady also has a 2-year-old son, Jack, with actress Bridget Moynahan.

Brady had joked earlier in the week about how hard it was to sleep with a new baby in the house, saying it was “a little tough early.” He added, “It’s coming.”

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