Justin Timberlake to Host the ESPYs

(AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, file) :: JustinTimberlake poses backstage at the MTV Video Music Awards in this Sept. 9, 2007, file photo in Las Vegas.

By Associated Press
Updated: 3/27/2008

NEW YORK

Justin Timberlake is hosting an awards show — and it's not the Grammys.

ESPN has lined up the 27-year-old singer-actor to host its annual ESPY Awards show this summer, celebrating some of the best and funniest moments in sports over the past year.

The ceremony, to be held at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles on July 20, will be televised live on ESPN, the network said Wednesday.

Timberlake says he's a sports junkie.

''I'll do my best to deliver a great show, as I do not want to be roughed up backstage by these athletes who are bigger, faster and stronger than me,'' he said.

Timberlake will be in the summertime movie, ''The Love Guru,'' with Mike Myers and Jessica Alba. He recently showed a different kind of stage presence when he inducted Madonna into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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ESPN is owned by the Walt Disney Co.

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