BASEBALL

UNION TO EXAMINE LACK OF OFFERS TO BONDS

The lack of offers to Barry Bonds will be examined by the baseball players’ association as part of its annual review of the free-agent market. Less than two weeks before opening day, the 43-year-old home run king remains unsigned. “He’s in playing shape right now. He just hasn’t hit off live pitching,” Bonds’s agent, Jeff Borris, said yesterday. “I’ve had conversations with Barry. It would probably take him about two weeks to get ready.”

YANKEES PAY HOMAGE AT VIRGINIA TECH

The Yankees made a pilgrimage yesterday to the Virginia Tech memorial dedicated to the campus shooting victims.

Along with about 200 onlookers, the Yankees viewed 32 stone memorials to the victims of the shooting rampage on April 16 at the Blacksburg campus.

The players were dressed in street clothes as they filed past the stones, then paused to look toward the classroom building where all but two of the gunman’s victims were slain. In May, the Yankees made a $1 million contribution to the Virginia Tech “Hokie Spirit” Memorial Fund.

RUNNING

AUTOPSY: HEART PROBLEMS CAUSED SHAY’S DEATH

Elite runner Ryan Shay died of an irregular heartbeat due to an enlarged heart after collapsing during the U.S. men’s marathon Olympic trials, the NYC medical examiner said. Shay’s heart also had old scarring, but its cause could not be determined, according to Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner. The 28-year-old Shay collapsed in Central Park on November 3, about 5 1/2 miles into the race, and was pronounced dead at a hospital. His father, Joe Shay, said previously that Ryan was diagnosed with an enlarged heart at age 14. But doctors had repeatedly cleared him for competition.