He isn’t guarded in his opinions

Looks as if the UCLA and USC basketball rivalries with Arizona might soon be getting a little more juice.

Brandon Jennings -- the former Compton Dominguez guard who committed to USC, then changed his mind and committed to Arizona -- had some things to say recently.

“I don’t respect West Coast point guards; they’re too Hollywood for me,” Jennings, a rising senior at Oak Hill Academy in Virginia, told Slam Online.

“I’m more of an East Coast, flashy-type point guard.”

Jennings’ mouth is as quick as his first step, and Bruins fans might not easily forget his comments about Jrue Holiday, a UCLA recruit from North Hollywood Campbell Hall.

“He’s real smooth, goes to work in the first three quarters -- but he’s not a killer yet,” Jennings said. “Me, I’m a killer.”

OK, who’s keeping score?

Trivia time

Who are the only pitchers to give up a home run to both Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds?

Dollars and sense

Estimate of how much Bonds could earn in endorsement income annually if not for the steroid issue and a personality “pricklier than a saguaro cactus,” from SI.com: $28 million.

Estimate of how much Bonds earns: $2 million.

Tickets too

There’s not a tremendous clamor to witness Bonds’ home run chase, either. Tickets for Monday night’s San Francisco Giants game at AT&T; Park were available at StubHub.com with a price range of $4 to $235 Monday afternoon.

Heavy lifting

Melanie Roach of Bonney Lake, Wash., took a break from her athletic career to have three children.

Lifting tots can do wonders for the biceps, but this is ridiculous.

Roach came back so strong she won a bronze medal in weightlifting at the Pan American Games.

The 5-foot, 117-pound mom lifted a total of 182 kilograms -- a little more than 400 pounds -- with 74 kilograms in the snatch and 108 kilograms in the clean and jerk.

Roach, 32, reportedly can squat 340 pounds.

Her goal is the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Making it mother’s day

Ahman Green of the Houston Texans has contributed $25,000 toward the down payment for a home for a single parent and her autistic 7-year-old son.

Green had approached teammate Jason Simmons about wearing Simmons’ No. 30 jersey. Simmons said he would give up the number if Green helped a single parent buy a home.

Green’s donation was matched by Texans owner Bob McNair.

Regina Foster cried when Green and Simmons surprised her at work with the check for $25,000, the Associated Press reported.

“This is for Reggie,” she said of her son. “He needs it. Kids with autism can’t adapt well to change, so it will be wonderful to have something we don’t ever have to leave.”

Foster said she didn’t know anything about football and wasn’t a Texans fan.

“I just became one,” Foster said.

Speak clearly

Roger Wehrli, a five-time All-Pro cornerback for the old St. Louis Cardinals, will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame next month.

Wehrli went out with a flourish in his final home game in 1982 against the New York Giants, scoring a touchdown on a fake field goal. (Wehrli was the holder.)

“How special was that?” a reporter asked him during a recent conference call. “Maybe the Giants aren’t thinking this creaky old guy is going to pull this off.”

Wehrli: “I wasn’t that creepy.”

Reporter: “ ‘Creaky,’ I said.”

Trivia answer

Rick Reuschel -- to Aaron in 1973 and ’74 and to Bonds in 1990 -- and Frank Tanana, to Aaron in 1976 and Bonds in 1993.

Thanks to Steve Vanderpool of Stats LLC for the contribution.

And finally

Spaniard Sergio Garcia sometimes talks to his golf ball in English instead of Spanish.

“How do you swear?” someone asked.

“How do I swear? I don’t swear,” Garcia said to laughter.

Worth noting: He said that before he missed that putt to win the British Open.

robyn.norwood@latimes.com