Makes You Wonder If ‘Big Brother’ Will Watch

Seven lucky New Jersey Jackal fans will get to try to spend seven consecutive days inside the minor league team’s stadium at Montclair, N.J, in a “Survivor”-like contest.

Contestants in the challenge will have to survive without showering and calling home, eating nothing but hot dogs--or some kosher or vegetarian alternative--and doing ballpark chores.

Six games are scheduled at Yogi Berra Stadium the week of Aug. 19-25, and fans will vote one contestant out of the game through applause at each game.

The last one left gets the prize: $5,000. Entries must be received by Thursday.

“I think it sounds like fun,” said Vicky Logan, a 38-year old fan who has asked off from work for that week in case she is selected.

“I think she’s crazy,” said her 11-year-old son, Ryan.

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Trivia time: When Brooklyn’s Ralph Branca served up the 1951 pennant-winning home run ball to New York’s Bobby Thomson, who had he just relieved?

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Get real: The Washington Post’s Leonard Shapiro, after pointing out Tiger Woods has had four straight tournaments without cracking the top 10, advises he be cut some slack.

“It would be easy to look at Woods’ results in his last four events and wonder if he’s in the throes of a tailspin,” Shapiro wrote.

“Oh, please. We’re talking about the greatest player the game may ever have seen, a man who has won one major this year and almost certainly will be favored to make it two at the PGA.

“He is the hardest-working player in golf, spending most waking hours practicing or thinking about his game, or working out to gain even more of a physical advantage. Mention a Tiger slump to his peers and the likely answer is, “I should be in such a slump.”

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Will try out for food: At the Carolina Panther training camp, Coach George Seifert and his players couldn’t help but notice the man near the practice field in gym shorts and a T-shirt and bearing a sign that said: “Just Need a Tryout.”

That went on for three days.

“Give him a tryout,” Seifert told his scouts.

His 30-minute workout, however, wasn’t enough to impress team scouts, and the player, Robert Tucker, went back to being a motor technician for Goodyear.

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Don’t run for it: Track and field promoter Al Franken has a world of warning for criminals who think they can elude Sheriff Lee Baca:

“The sheriff finished second in a 50-and-over 10K race recently at Playa del Rey,” Franken said.

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Trivia answer: Don Newcombe.

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And finally: Newsday’s Jon Heyman, in an analysis of the Dodgers, had this to say about ex-general manager Kevin Malone:

“Kevin Malone, who signed those hurt pitchers to big deals, is gone, except for occasional TV cameos to complain that negative coverage cost him his job, not his bad signings or his blowup with the fan in San Diego.”