This Family Bonds Over Bonds’ New TV Show

Denver Post columnist Mark Kiszla informs readers the “Bonds on Bonds” reality show “just might be the best way for a family to gather around the boob tube and spend quality time since ‘The Osbournes’ debuted.”

With tongue firmly in cheek, he continues, “When my 11-year-old son asks if Bonds took steroids, I give the same response as when my daughter inquired if Ozzy was drug-addled: ‘Of course not, just look at him.’ ”

Trivia time: In what major league season since 1900 did the runs-per-game average peak, and what was the average? (Hint: It was long before the steroid era.)

Boxing out: For Steve Nash, another league MVP award would be icing on the cake. Or in his case, sugar on the cereal. The Phoenix Sun point guard is the new cover boy for Wheaties and he proclaimed the honor to be, well, different.

“It’s hard to get accustomed to, that’s for sure,” he said, peering at his likeness during the unveiling. “It’s amazing to be on that box.”

Tiger track: Tiger Woods will race a high-powered dirt-track car Monday in a charity race on New Zealand’s North Island.

Woods, in New Zealand to attend caddie Steve Williams’ wedding, accepted Williams’ challenge to drive in the event.

“I’ve done other things. I’ve thrown a baseball a few times and thrown a couple of coins here and there,” Woods told a news conference in Auckland. “If they knock me off, I can knock them off. The whole idea is to have fun.”

National treasures: Seven Venezuelan pitchers started Tuesday in the majors, a record for the baseball-mad South American nation.

They were Tony Armas Jr., Washington; Gustavo Chacin, Toronto; Victor Zambrano, New York Mets; Carlos Silva, Minnesota; Kelvim Escobar, the Angels; Felix Hernandez, Seattle, and Carlos Zambrano, Chicago Cubs.

“The seven wonders of the world,” as the Venezuelan newspaper Meridiano referred to them, were a so-so 3-3 with one no-decision.

Duty call: Asked about estimates that as many as 60,000 prostitutes from Eastern Europe may be working the World Cup soccer tournament in Germany, FIFA President Sepp Blatter responded on Sky TV: “What can we do? We in FIFA are not responsible for the morality and ethics of the whole population of the world. This is not our duty. Our duty is football.”

Out to pasture: Eastern Oregon University will drop baseball, women’s golf and rodeo in an effort to save money.

Writes Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “The good news is that the cuts will help save $180,000. The bad news is that any livestock planning to transfer will have to sit out a year.”

Trivia answer: In 1930 the scoring average was 11.1 runs a game, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The overall batting average in the National League that year was .303.

And finally: Chicago White Sox Manager Ozzie Guillen to ESPN the Magazine on how he stays trim: “I spend all my money on clothes. That’s why I’m scared to get fat. I don’t want to lose all that money.”