Selig denies Bonds report

Contrary to a published report, baseball commissioner Bud Selig said yesterday he had not decided what course to take regarding San Francisco's Barry Bonds and two new books that detail his use of performance-enhancing drugs.

''There is absolutely nothing new," Selig, who traveled from Milwaukee to attend the World Baseball Classic second-round game between Team USA and Mexico, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. ''I spent the airplane ride out here today thinking about it and I'll continue to do so.

''I have made no decision. I'll make a decision based on all the factors that are involved and go from there. I'll do what I think is in the best interests of everybody involved."

Although the published report might have been premature, Selig is thought to be in the planning stages of launching an investigation of Bonds, who has repeatedly denied using performance-enhancing drugs.

There have been calls for Selig to suspend Bonds, who is only seven home runs shy of passing Babe Ruth for second place on the all-time list and 48 away from overtaking Hank Aaron.

Washington shortstop Cristian Guzman will try to avoid surgery on his injured right shoulder, but if two weeks of rest and rehab don't work, he could miss much of the season. A tear was revealed by an MRI when Guzman went to Cincinnati to get a second opinion on the shoulder, the team said . . . The World Anti-Doping Agency threatened to flunk the World Baseball Classic's drug-testing program as being too lax, a move that likely would damage the sport's chances to regain a place in the Olympics. ''It's very simple: We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight," WADA president Richard Pound said. ''Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet."