Alan Peppard

Owning the most valuable home in Dallas has advantages for Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars owner Tom Hicks. Few people decline an invitation to dine at the estate valued on the tax rolls at $34,927,520.

Last weekend, the mogul used that knowledge to raise a little money for his beloved Texas Rangers Foundation.

The entire Rangers team showed up for Sunday's Park Place Dealerships Texas Rangers Triple Play benefit at the Hilton Anatole.

The prize auction item was dinner at the Hicks home prepared by Top Chef ingénue Casey Thompson.

The winning bid went to Park Place Dealerships owner Ken Schnitzer.

Speaking of Ken Schnitzer, his Bentley Dallas dealership has already sold two of the just-introduced Bentley Brooklands.

Big deal, you say.

The four-seat supercar (top speed 184 mph) sells for $350,000.

Bentley's total lifetime production of the Brooklands will be 550 cars and no more.

One of those 550 will be on display on Saturday at Bentley Dallas.

The Jessica Simpson-Tony Romo romance continues to be the gift that fills a million tabloid magazine racks. People magazine has a fun blunder on Page 14 of the May 5 issue. In a list of the

most-read stories on its Web site, No. 3 was the "Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo Cake-Licking Celebration," for Tony's birthday at Suite nightclub on Travis. People ran a photo of Jess and her cake-smeared man from D Magazine's FrontBurner blog.

Alas, the man with cake smeared on his face was not Tony, but Jessica's Dallas pal Blake Andrews, an executive with his family's Andrews Distributing.

Meanwhile, People's archrival, US Weekly, is predicting an imminent Simpson-Romo engagement in its issue that hits newsstands today. Unimpeachable sources quoted in the story include "a close pal," "another [close pal]," "a Jessica pal," "[a] source," "a confidante," "a friend," "sources," "the insider," "Jessica's inner circle" and "a pal."

"She is gunning for marriage big-time," a close pal tells US .

Well, if a "close pal" says it, it must be true, right?

Most hockey players love golf more than skating, and now they have a new place to hang. The former Columbian Club in Carrollton was recently rebranded and changed to a golfer's paradise called Honors Golf Club of Dallas.

With a strict limit of 325 members, Honors recently welcomed Stars goalie Marty Turco to the fold. He and members such as Tony Romo thrive on the club's purist approach to golf: no mulligans, no extra clubs, no fudging scorecards.

Marty's regular golfing partner at Honors has been Stars center Brad Richards.