Terrell Owens to Headline Latest Incarnation of "The Superstars"

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My earliest memory of the "The Superstars" was Walter Peyton rocking a jheri curl and a Kangaroo sweat suit. Lets just say I think the Terrell Owens version will be a little bit different.

Here is some information about the latest incarnation of "The Superstars" from ESPN.com

Eight athletes, including Buffalo Bills wide receiver Terrell Owens, will team with eight celebrities in the latest reincarnation of "The Superstars," ABC television announced Tuesday.

Owens will team with Joanna Krupa, a model who was one of Maxim magazine's Top 100 women in the world in 2006, when the competition gets underway on June 23 (8 p.m. ET, ABC). The eight teams will compete weekly in events including swimming, biking, running and kayaking. One team will be eliminated each week, leading up to the finals.

Other athletes include former major league baseball player Jeff Kent, ex-NBA star Robert Horry, Olympian Bode Miller, former world No. 1 tennis player Jennifer Capriati, WNBA star Lisa Leslie, soccer great Brandi Chastain and women's freeskiier Kristi Leskinen.

They will team with actress and former Miss USA Ali Landry (Kent), actress Estella Warren (Horry), "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" star Paige Hemmis (Miller), "Dancing With The Stars" performer Maksim Chmerkovskiy (Leskinen), actor and former North Carolina football player Dan Cortese (Leslie), former "Baywatch" and "Melrose Place" star David Charvet (Capriati) and singer Julie Inglesias, Jr. (Chastain).

I might watch just for Ali Landry or to see if Jeff Kent beats someone up and then lies about it. Interestingly for a public that supposedly hates Owens he surly does garner a lot of attention whenever he does anything (you know at some point he will be on Dancing With The Stars).

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I find it somewhat ironic if not downright hilarious that the show is being produced by ABC (who is owned by Disney who owns ESPN) considering the hate that comes out of Bristol for Owens. I can see MeShawn Johnson screaming at his agent right now asking why he wasn't invited to join the competition only to hear his agent yell back:

"Nobody wants to see you on TV Key you are lucky you not out of work like Emmitt."

So to sum things up. T.O. has a reality show, The Superstars and the responsibility of putting the Bills on the map. I don't think Owens is concerned about all the attention do you?

Written By BonaFide Sports Expert Robert Littal