Donovan McNabb and Terrell Owens team up on Spike TV

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Donovan McNabb will throw passes to Terrell Owens again – only this time on a basketball court in the new season of Spike TV’s “Pros vs. Joes.”  The special episode features current NFL stars who played college basketball, Owens (Tennessee-Chattanooga), McNabb (Syracuse), and Antonio Gates (Kent St.) against former NBA greats Hakeem Olajuwon, Kenny Smith and Rick Fox.


Spike TV’s “Pros vs. Joes” goes into production beginning March 9 in Los Angeles and premieres Wednesday, July 14 at 10:00 pm ET/PT. The new season, hosted by Michael Strahan and Jay Glazer, will consist of eight one-hour episodes.  (The episode with McNabb and Owens tapes Friday, March 12).

The football stars showcased in the hit Spike TV original series include Warrick Dunn, Isaac Bruce, Derrick Brooks and Jeff Garcia. The basketball legends are Hakeem Olajuwon, Chris Mullin, Kenny Smith, Brent Barry, Isaiah Rider and Rick Fox.

“Pros vs. Joes” features regular guys competing against an array of popular sports legends from the last two decades. Similar to last season, there will be only one sport played in each episode featuring three skill competitions and a three-on-three game pitting the Pros against the Joes. The sports this season will be football (4 episodes) and basketball (4 episodes).

Utilizing their solid sports background and sterling track record of delivering high quality unscripted hits, A. Smith & Co. Productions’ Arthur Smith, Kent Weed and Frank Sinton serve as executive producers of the new season of “Pros vs. Joes” along with Michael Yudin, president of MY Entertainment and Joe Townley, COO of MY Entertainment. The same team executive produced “Pros vs. Joes 4: All Stars.”  Smith is CEO of A. Smith & Co. and helped launch the successful Fox Sports Net in the late 1990s as its head of programming and production.  Townley is a veteran of sports television production and previously served as executive producer at MSG Network.

Sharon Levy, Tim Duffy and Joe Weinstock are executives in charge of production for Spike TV.

(Source: Spike TV)