Aurilia’s 15 Minutes Must Have Just Run Out

San Francisco Giant shortstop Rich Aurilia was walking toward Safeco Field for the All-Star game when a youngster asked him, “Are you a player? Can you sign my baseball?”

Aurilia obliged and walked on, only to have the kid come running back.

“Can you tell me what that says?” he asked, pointing to the autograph.

More All-Star fun: How about the TV reporter who asked Seattle Mariner rookie Ichiro Suzuki:

“Are you bigger than Godzilla?”

Trivia time: Has any Dodger won the league MVP award more than once?

Quickie: In a London court to settle financial obligations with a Russian model who bore his child, former tennis star Boris Becker said it wasn’t an affair but “an act that lasted just five seconds.”

To which Alex Kaseberg said to the San Francisco Chronicle’s Tom FitzGerald, “And I thought his serve was fast.”

Nature of the game: John Anselmo, 80, Tiger Woods’ former pro, was watching some youngsters kill the ball at one of Tiger’s clinics.

“They’re coming, Tiger,” Anselmo said.

“Some of these kids will beat me,” replied Tiger. “Then someone else will beat them.”

He remembers: Bud Geracie in the San Jose Mercury-News: “Magic Johnson got a star on Hollywood Boulevard, surely not for his talk show.”

Right continent: In a letter to Sports Illustrated, a reader from Brazil complained, “I realize that you may be dazzled by the larger number of Brazilian drivers in CART, the IRL and so on, but Eliseo Salazar is not one of us. He is from Colombia.”

Wrong. A.J. Foyt’s driver is from Chile.

Here comes tennis: Move over, soccer and badminton. In Indonesia at least.

In a country where badminton rules, Angelique Widjaja offered a change of pace when she became the first Indonesian to win a Grand Slam tennis title, the girls’ singles championship at Wimbledon.

Save your voice: Taiwanese pop diva Chang Hui-mei, banned from singing in China for a year, hopes to sing at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Chang angered Chinese leaders last year by singing Taiwan’s national anthem during the inauguration of the island’s president, Chen Shui-bian.

Which way? When Toronto Blue Jay pitcher Chris Michalak quarterbacked Joliet Catholic High to the Illinois state championship, he threw the football right-handed.

With the Blue Jays, he is left-handed.

Must be a Democrat: Golf coach Butch Harmon, who mentors Tiger Woods and King Hassan II of Morocco among others, was at the Michael Douglas celebrity tournament last week, coaching celebrities.

“It is truly an honor for me to coach the real president of the United States,” said Harmon--referring to Martin Sheen, who plays the president on “The West Wing.”

Sign him up: Former Los Angeles Ram running back Dick Bass is retired now, and spends much of his time playing in celebrity golf tournaments.

“I’m a hacker,” he said, “but I’m dependable. I show up.”

Real conspiracy: Winston Cup driver Jeremy Mayfield’s take on cynics who claim Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s win at Daytona last week was suspect:

“These people could spend their time more constructively trying to figure out if aliens really did land in the New Mexico desert in the 1950s.”

Trivia answer: Catcher Roy Campanella, in 1951, 1953 and 1955.

And finally: Are the New York Knicks interested in free agent Chris Webber?

Already the Sacramento King forward has received a big duffel bag with the inscription, “Pack your bags for Madison Square Garden,” a fanny pack with a Knick water bottle, and a model replica of “The World’s Most Famous Arena.”