NEXT HE'S SUING RANGER SMITH: Former New York Yankees great Yogi Berra is taking cable channel WTBS to court over bus and kiosk ads the station ran asking: What is the definition of a "Yogasm." The offending answer, which Yogi claims sullied his name, was: b) sex with Yogi Berra. (The correct answer, for those of you playing along at home was: c) what Samantha has with a guy from yoga class.

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THAT OTHER COMPETITION THIS WEEK: Yes, gang, while the Eagles prepare in Jacksonville, WingBowl XIII comes to Philadelphia this Friday at 6am.

As always, the official website has contestant qualifying eating attempt videos, both successful and un-.

New for 2005: if you can't attend the competitive eating extravaganza in person, play the Virtual Wing Bowl home game.

Ben Franklin, I think, would be proud.

SCRAMBLE FOR THE BALL(S): What happens when football players pile up? The Eagles' Ike Reese tells all. Too much, perhaps.

And as PTI wisely asked today, how does he know those were Vrabel's hands?

TIVO IS NOT INFALLIABLE: Leaving aside its sometimes inexplicable "suggestions," like the time it went on a kick recording episodes of "Lizzie Maguire" that it thought I would enjoy, I generally love my TiVo. However, every once in a while, it screws up a channel change, which it did tonight, tuning to channel 1 rather than channel 11 at 9, and giving me digital recording of an hour of public access crawl rather than an hour of WB schmaltz. If anyone has tonight's episode of "Everwood" on VHS or DVD, I'd appreciate you shooting me a comment or an e-mail.

AW-LAY EEK-GAY INUTE-MAY: Unless you're a trademark lawyer, you probably don't know about the rule of "immoral or scandalous" trademarks. Under U.S. law, something with immoral or scandalous content is not susceptible to trademark protection, which has led to amusing opinions in the area of phone sex--In re Boulevard Entertainment, Inc., 334 F.3d 1336 (Fed. Cir. 2003). But apparently Pig Latin gets you around the issue, as witnessed by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board discussed here, finding the mark UCK-FAY perfectly acceptable for registration in connection with use on clothing.

WHAT ABOUT FARGO NORTH, DECODER? Of the 1,696 network and cable prime time series set in actual locales, not a single show has called North Dakota its home. Alabama, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Delaware and Vermont have each had one series set within their borders, all of which begs the question of what two series were set in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Idaho? I'm guessing Westerns, but still those seem like obscure locales. In fact, if anyone wants to be more ambitious than I am today, feel free to start a list of the 50 states in the comments with the name of a series set in each state. In fact, maybe I'll start the ball rolling...

SEPARATED AT BIRTH? Because of raving about it from the hardcore Joss Whedon fans, I picked up a used copy of "Firefly" on DVD. It's reasonably enjoyable, though the overly-literalistic Western elements (cattle rustlers, revolvers, and a western ballad theme song) don't seem to work well with the highly realistic sci-fi elements (this is one of the few sci-fi shows that has no sound in space, as would actually be the case), and, as usual with Whedon, there's inexplicable stuff like the space prostitute who an integral part of the crew (no, I'm not making that up). However, is it just me or is Nathan Fillion a dead ringer for Peter Krause, in terms of looks, dialogue delivery, and just generally?