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The San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds is about to launch something besides another towering home run: his personal Web site, www.barrybonds.com.

Sure, fans will be able to chat it up with baseball's No. 1 slugger, but rumor has it that this site will boast much, much more, including:

• Milestone tracker: Such as the first, 1,000th and 10,000th times Bonds has blown off a media interview request, including the offending questioner.

• Memorable quotes: What impressionable young fan could resist this classic: "Don't bother me when I'm bothered. I'll chew your head off."

• Barry's entertainment tracker: Find out why Oscar the Grouch is the most misunderstood man in show business.

• My worst E-7s: Discover how Bonds, mistakenly believing BALCO was just a brand of dog food, raised the world's first 200-pound Chihuahua.

Head to head

Don King, whose work with Mike Tyson makes him a certifiable expert on weapons of mass destruction, has jumped into the political ring. At least, his cartoon caricature has.

At www.gop.com/kerryvskerry, King is shown in a boxing ring announcing a fight between Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry and ... Kerry. Each round represents a different issue, with each Kerrycature taking an opposing view, as Republicans have accused him of doing.

As the two Kerrys duke it out, King shouts comments like, "That's below the belt!"
 
If nothing else, the losing Kerry can honestly claim: "I beat myself tonight."

Soft-tossing

Excerpts from a CBS SportsLine.com Q&A with Mariners pitcher Jamie Moyer:

Q: What is it like being able to share your career with your kids?

A: "I look back when they were younger, and they thought, 'Dad's going to the playground' because that's what they did."

Q: What do you think when you see your father-in-law, ESPN basketball analyst Digger Phelps, on television in spring training each year?

A: "I know he won't be visiting. (Laughs.) ... No, we have a great relationship."

MVP: Veggie Jackson?

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals came out with its annual rankings of vegetarian-friendly ballparks, with Cleveland's Jacobs Field coming in at No. 1.

Yankee Stadium didn't even make the top 10. PETA must've seen the meat of the batting order.

Talking the talk

• Bruce Friedrich, PETA's Vegan Campaign director, on the top-10 ballpark rankings that didn't include Safeco Field, either: "Taking in a game while enjoying great food that didn't cost an animal an arm and a leg is a hit every time."

• Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle, on why he's not surprised that players are dragging their feet on the steroids issue: "One side effect of steroids is that they tend to shrink the very things you need in order to stand up to a misguided union leadership."

— Dwight Perry, The Seattle Times

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