postpone all new "Catfight" commercials in the wake of the war. Instead, the brewer will run two other spots during the games.

CBS did not return calls, and the NCAA could not be reached late today to comment on Miller's statement that it was the one who decided to shelve the spots.

$6 billion deal
CBS is in the first year of its latest deal to carry the NCAA men's basketball tournament, an 11-year, $6 billion agreement. The network has carried the tournament for the past 22 years, but viewership has been down this year because of the war.

The Miller spokesman said the brewery originally planned to run two new "Catfight" sequels during CBS' coverage of tournament. One featured two manly but sensitive men hugging after a tiff, and the otherwas a female fantasy about a guy ending up in a mud pit with a much larger, burly man instead of a buxom babe.

The NCAA objected to the ad with the men in the mud pit, the Miller spokesman said.

The original "Catfight" ad debuted in January and featured two sexy women, tearing off each other's clothes while wrestling in wet concrete. An Internet version had one woman asking the other if she wanted to make out.