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Date Posted: 16:11:50 05/28/03 Wed
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Justin Timberlake: The Next John Madden?
05.07.2003
As if having a successful solo career weren't enough, Justin Timberlake is determined to prove that he's got game — literally.
The 'NSYNC singer has signed on as a special correspondent to cover sports for both TNT and TBS, the networks announced Tuesday.
Timberlake's new job as a sportscaster will find him reporting from a variety of sports events for TNT, including the NBA regular season and playoffs, NASCAR races and the PGA Championship. For TBS, he'll appear at major-league baseball games and Big 12 and Pac-10 college football games.
"Justin's interest and enthusiasm not only in the NBA, but in all sports, should help provide our broadcasts with a new, fresh approach," Turner Sports executive producer Mike Pearl said in a statement.
For one of his first assignments, Timberlake teamed with Magic Johnson for a feature called "The NBA Playoffs ... Justified." Timberlake described the skills of "new school" stars, which Johnson compared to "old school" legends, in between shooting some hoops themselves. The spots begin airing this week.
This isn't Timberlake's first venture into sports, or first run-in with Johnson. Besides having recently appeared on "Inside the NBA" with Michael Jordan, he's taken part in the NBA All-Star Weekend for the past two years, and the singer played against Johnson in February 2002's "989 Sports All-Star Hoop It Up" (the event aired live on TNT). In that game, Timberlake hit a long-range jumper over now-fellow TNT analyst Kenny Smith, who won two championships with the Houston Rockets.
—Jennifer Vineyard
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