BET's BALLERS Talk It Up With Boxing Champ Sugar Shane Mosley and Oscar De La Hoya; Dallas Cowboys Julius Jones, Akin Ayodele and Former NFL All-Pro Ray Buchanan

BET's BALLERS Talk It Up With Boxing Champ Sugar Shane Mosley and Oscar De La Hoya; Dallas Cowboys Julius Jones, Akin Ayodele and Former NFL All-Pro Ray Buchanan

John Salley, Hugh Douglas and Guy Torry Grill Their Guests For Great Sports Talk on May 4 at 10 P.M. ET/PT

LOS ANGELES, May 3 /PRNewswire/ --
SHOW
OVERVIEW: Hosts John Salley, Hugh Douglas and Guy Torry talk up the big
stories of the week with sports celebs including former boxing
world champion Sugar Shane Mosley and the golden boy himself
Oscar de la Hoya, Julius Jones and Akin Ayodele from the Dallas
Cowboys, former NFL All-Pro Ray Buchanan and Seattle Post-
Intelligencer sports reporter Gary Washburn.

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070503/NETH056)

BALLERS hits the sports topics making big news each week with
fresh perspectives and plenty of trash talking from the hosts
and guest athletes. From the comedic outbursts of Torry, to
the insider's look that Salley and Douglas provide, the talk is
loud, insightful and filled with commentary unlike that on any
other sports show. With special features like "You Trippin'"
and "If I Were You", the bullsh*t flag and gossip in the girls'
booth with co-host Claudia Jordan, BALLERS kicks it up a notch
while other sports shows are toning it down. From the NBA to
the NFL to the black rodeo, BALLERS is there for the serious
issues, outrageous plays and everything in between --- all
hosted within a sexy night club setting.

GUEST APPEARANCES:

- Former boxing World Champion, Sugar Shane Mosley
- The golden boy himself Oscar de la Hoya
- Dallas Cowboys Julius Jones and Akin Ayodele
- Former NFL All-Pro Ray Buchanan
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer sports reporter Gary Washburn
- And an incredible story of courage that showcases Kortney
Clemens, a young college football player with his nights on
the NFL who lost his leg in a tour as a soldier in Iraq.
This courageous young man is now training as a track and
field athlete for the 2008 Beijing Paralympics.

EPISODE PREMIERE: Friday, May 4th @ 10 p.m. ET/PT

ENCORES: Saturday, May 5th @ 1 a.m.; Sunday, May 6th @ 12 p.m. and 9 p.m.

SHOW SCHEDULE: One hour, 6 episode series

HIGHLIGHTS: Hosts John Salley, Hugh Douglas and Guy Torry interview:
former boxing world champion Sugar Shane Mosley and the
golden boy himself Oscar de la Hoya, Julius Jones and Akin
Ayodele from the Dallas Cowboys, former NFL All-Pro Ray
Buchanan and Seattle Post-Intelligencer sports reporter Gary
Washburn.

Mosley is on hand to discuss the highly-anticipated May 5
title fight between Floyd Mayweather and Oscar De La Hoya.
Mosley has been sparring with De La Hoya and helping him
train.

Mosley on the possibility of coming out of retirement:
"I would like to have the opportunity to get in there with
Mayweather myself and show what I can do. We already know
what me and Oscar can do with each other."

Mosley on the outcome of Saturday's title fight:
"I think Mayweather is underestimating, like everyone else,
the big left hook. I think he [Mayweather] thinks he can get
away from it and don't really have to worry about it. I
don't think he really believes it's a threat to him because
he knows it's gonna come."

Jones and Ayodele have much to say about the Cowboys and
their former coach.

Jones on his relationship with former coach Bill Parcells:
"... Coach Parcells my first year, he (Parcells) kind of let
me do what I wanted to do, second year and last year he kind
of coached me too much, ....You know, you can't really mess
with a running back out there. You can tell them where to go
and where the hole is gonna be ..... He had me running
like a robot. No disrespect to coach Parcells, but you can't
really tell a running back where to run or he's gonna be out
there looking like a robot. That's what I was doing last
year."

Ayodele on if teammate Terrell Owens had a part in
former coach Bill Parcells leaving the Dallas Cowboys:
"It had nothing to do with T.O. I think for coach Parcells it
was his time. He felt like he had a window, you know four or
five years and we didn't win it. We came up short..."

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