Sports briefs 3/15/06

Baseball

• The San Francisco Giants will celebrate appropriately if Barry Bonds passes Babe Ruth on the career home run list.

Team owner Peter Magowan and executive vice president Larry Baer vowed Tuesday to honor the organization's star player while also reiterating their commitment to cooperate with the commissioner's office on any investigation into Bonds' alleged steroids use.

Bonds begins the season with 708 home runs, and he connected for his second spring training homer Tuesday against Texas lefty John Danks.

* Former baseball star Dwight Gooden was arrested Tuesday on charges of violating the terms of his probation.

The 41-year-old pleaded guilty in November to speeding away from police after a DUI traffic stop in August 2004 and was sentenced to three years probation. On Tuesday he went to a regular meeting with a probation officer, where he admitted to using cocaine, according to Jo Ellyn Rackleff, a spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections.

Tennis

• Martina Hingis won the latest round in a rivalry with Lindsay Davenport, taking a 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 victory Tuesday in the Pacific Life Open. On the men's side, No. 1 Roger Federer came back after a slow start to beat No. 32 Olivier Rochus 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 in their third-round match.

-- From wire reports