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AwfulAnnouncing: After 34 Years, Billy Packer Has Called His Last Final Four With CBS
SPORTSbyBROOKS: Report: CBS Finally Pulling the Plug on Billy Packer
Larry Brown Sports: CBS Replacing Billy Packer with Clark Kellogg
Tar Heel Fan: Our Long National Nightmare Is Over
Busted Coverage: Booze, Ladies And Football: Daily Dump: USA WAGs Vs. The World, Home Run Derby Drinking Game, Packer Is History And Brooke Hogan Naked?
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After 34 Years, Billy Packer Has Called His Last Final Four With CBS
AwfulAnnouncing —
... lost their posts with various networks. I never really took joy in say Theismann being replaced on MNF, or Salisbury getting the ax, but I have to say that today I'm pretty happy with this move. For the second year in a row CBS has decided to make an amazingly smart decision for it's March Madness broadcast (last year it was Gus Johnson in the Sweet Sixteen) and they've replaced 34-year veteran Billy Packer. Not only is Packer bumped from the main team, but according to the Miami Herald he is gone from CBS College Basketball entirely.... College ...
Report: CBS Finally Pulling the Plug on Billy Packer
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
For all those hoping that Billy Packer would soon be sent packing from CBS basketball broadcasts, your prayers have apparently been answered . Billy Packer looking at sign Barry Jackson of the MIAMI HERALD reports that the aggravating analyst will not be returning to the network next season, ending 27 years as a b-ball blowhard for the Columbia Broadcasting System. Both Packer & a CBS spokesperson confirmed Sunday night that Billy wasn’t coming back. The 68-year-old Packer had offered his interesting and/or inane insights for 34 straight Final Fours, starting ...
CBS Replacing Billy Packer with Clark Kellogg
Larry Brown Sports —
... Now all we need is ESPN to do the same with Joe Morgan and the Angels with Rex Hudler. Though Clark Kellogg wouldn’t be the replacement of choice. Anyway, the Miami Herald reports that CBS is letting Billy Packer go after 28 years with the network. This decision means that Packer won’t be providing commentary for his 35th straight Final Four, most likely. It doesn’t take me saying it for you to know that Billy Packer is an old and crotchety dude who’s expressed an ...
Our Long National Nightmare Is Over
Tar Heel Fan —
... According to the Miami Herald, CBS is set to announce that Billy Packer aka [UNNAMED ANALYST] here at THF has called his last college basketball game on CBS. Somewhere I have to think Tyler Hansbrough is laughing. ...
Daily Dump: USA WAGs Vs. The World, Home Run Derby Drinking Game, Packer Is History And Brooke Hogan Naked?
Busted Coverage: Booze, Ladies And Football —
... we are, “One of the sites I frequent when my wife is passed out.”
Today’s Dump:
Finally! US WAGs vs. Euro WAGs: Who Is Hotter [The Spoiler]
2008 Home Run Derby Drinking Game [Home Run Derby]
Athletes and boxing gloves equal bad idea [Angry T]
Stephen A. Smith out of his friggin’ mind [Awful Announcing]
There is a God….Billy Packer gets the boot at CBS [Miami Herald]
Cooley to wear the “Zorn Star” shirt [Mister ...
The Roundup: CBS Drops Billy Packer
The Big Lead —
... Great scoop for Barry Jackson: Billy Packer has called his last Final Four with CBS, and Clark Kellog will replace him. We’ll save our reaction for a bit later. (Miami Herald) ...
Deep Outs 7/14
Iowa Sports Guy —
Peter King on the continuing Brett Favre Saga. NE Patriots Draft on why a former MVP SUCKED last year. Awful Announcing on some great NCAA news. Trust us, it's great. A Stern Warning on some 2009 NBA Live developments.
Good Riddance Billy Packer
George Mason Basketball —
... I don't think I have ever been so happy to see a sports commentator go than I am to see Billy Packer leave CBS. Thank you CBS for finally bringing in a new era of accurate commentating and actually getting with the times. There can't be a basketball mid-major fan out there not happy to see him go after his comments about the 2006 NCAA Tournament, ...
Shanoff's Wake-Up Call: Favre, MLB Stars, More
The Sporting Blog —
Today's Calls: Brett Favre vs. Aaron Rodgers, Rays vs. Mets, CC Sabathia vs. Rich Harden, Chase Utley vs. Josh Hamilton, O.J. Mayo vs. Eric Gordon and More. The Opening Pitch: There is only one option for the Packers. They must absolutely embrace Brett Favre's return to the NFL. And absolutely can NOT let him play for another team. This is a no-brainer, if only because any other option is no-win for the Packers: What, like they should let the most popular player in franchise history play for another team? Like they should trade Mr. Packer for, what, a third-round pick? Is a third-rounder worth that epic grief from fans ...
Mini Pony of the Day 7-14-08
Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies - Pittsburgh Sports Videos, Humor and Crack Analysis. And Ridiculously Small Horses —
[image] For some reason, I thought I used this image before. I searched, but found nothing. Its from Wisconsin Sportsblog Chuckie Hacks . Many thanks to Doug for sending that my way. Crack open a cold one and browse the following links: It isn't safe to be an MLB mascot in the Bronx. [ Busted Coverage ] Billy Packer is gone. Prayers are finally answered. [ Miami Herald ] I can't do this headline any justice. Its beautiful in its own self. [ Larry Brown Sports ] Naked rock climbing. Possibly NSFW? [ Deuce of Davenport ] Bon Jovi took in no money from the 50,000+ in Central Park over the ...
Monday Morning Reading
Three Idiots on Sports —
... And finally, in news that will make every basketball fan who isn't deaf happy, Billy Packer is done at CBS - we'll have more on this a little later, right now I'm bracing for all the "he was a great broadcaster" BS that comes with a move like this. People love revisionist history. ...
While-I-was-gone linkage
The Blog —
... And for one more off the wall link, this morning's Miami Herald reports that Billy Packer is out as Jim Nantz' sidekick on CBS college basketball broadcasts. ...
Billy Packer is out as CBS' lead college hoops analyst
Sports stories from Newsday —
The Miami Herald is reporting - complete with confirmation from CBS - that Billy Packer is out as the network's lead college basketball analyst.
Here is Barry Jackson's story.
Packer has analyzed 34 consecutive Final Fours on NBC and CBS, an extraordinary run. But he regularly has been embroiled in controversies, and he was not at his best in the most recent Final Four.
He failed to discuss Memphis' strategy in the waning seconds of regulation time and lapsed into historic references at crucial times late in a tight championship ...
CBS to dump Packer, add Greg Anthony.
Sports Media Watch —
CBS college basketball coverage is undergoing a major overhaul. Analyst Billy Packer , who has called 34 straight Final Fours and has been with CBS for 27 years, will not be retained for the upcoming season. Packer will be replaced by longtime studio analyst Clark Kellogg . According to the Miami Herald , CBS " believed the time was right " to replace the often controversial Packer. Former ESPN NBA analyst Greg Anthony will likely replace Kellogg in the studio, " ...
Miami Herald: Billy Packer Out At CBS
StateFans Nation —
The rumors about Billy Packer that we originally posted on 4/22 have come to pass: Billy Packer is out at CBS:
CBS has decided to replace Packer, 68, with studio analyst Clark Kellogg on its lead announcing team.
An announcement is expected Monday, but CBS representative Leslie Anne Wade confirmed the story Sunday night.
CBS believed the time was right for a change and that Kellogg deserved a chance to work with Jim Nantz on the lead team.
Goodbye, Billy Packer!
SLAM Online —
by Lang Whitaker
He was always such a tough little monkey. Now he’s unemployed. ...
Report: Billy Packer is Out at CBS
FanHouse —
Filed under: March Madness, NCAA Basketball Fans, NCAA Basketball Media Watch Many basketball fans of the world are set to rejoice. The Miami Herald is reporting that CBS is replacing Billy Packer with Clark Kellogg on the top college basketball broadcast team.
CBS believed the time was right for a change and that Kellogg deserved a chance to work with Jim Nantz on the lead team. Packer, who had been going year to year with his contract, confirmed through a CBS official Sunday that he no longer will ...
NCAA Final Four Broadcaster, Archangel of Death, Billy Packer Axed from CBS After 34 Years [Billy Packer]
Deadspin —
... Now maybe everybody's least favorite grandpa will age. Jim Nantz will be paired with Clark Kellogg at the Final Four according to the Miami Herald This rumor had been floating around for quite some time and supposedly the final straw was Packer calling the North Carolina-Kansas regional final game over midway through the first half. Advertisers kind of hate when announcers do that. Especially when North Carolina storms back and almost wins the game. ...
Billy Packer replaced; 2009 Final Four to be 74% less grumpy
The Dagger —
There
has not been a Final Four in my lifetime that wasn't called by Billy Packer. For
as long as I've known of hardwood floors, orange basketballs, and 10-foot rims,
I've known of Billy Packer. That's been my life as a college basketball fan.
But that comes to an end in 2009, as the legendarily grumpy Packer has
been removed from CBS's NCAA tournament coverage. I don't know if they simply
notified him with a phone call, or if it took a team of 14 angry lumberjacks to
actually chisel his crusty old buttocks out of the chair, but he's out.
From the Miami
Herald:
CBS has decided to ...
Adios, Billy Packer!
Rush The Court —
... In a move that we are certain will generate a ton of praise around the college basketball world (and the blogosphere), CBS has decided to not renew everyone’s least favorite curmudgeon Billy Packer (h/t to The Big Lead for pointing this out). After 27 years at CBS and having called the national championship game every year since 1977, CBS has “decided to move into another direction” (a phrase I’m sure many of our readers have heard before). ...
CBS dumps Billy Packer after 28 years.
Clubhouse Cancer —
... Billy Packer, 68, lead color analyst for CBS’ coverage of NCAA basketball will leave the network after 28 years to pursue “other projects in basketball,” according to The Miami Herald. ...
CBS UnPacks, Veteran Curmudgeon Kicked To The Curb
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
... The Miami Herald’s Barry Jackson reported late Sunday evening that college basketball’s true Mr. Sunshine, the mid-major hating Billy Packer, will toil for someone other than the former Tiffany Network next season. ...
Billy Packer - It’s Over
Intentional Foul —
... In this case, it’s Packer’s career of calling college basketball for CBS. In today’s Miami Herald (this article will probably be one of the most referenced today), it was revealed CBS is replacing Packer after 34 years — some would say 34 years too long — with Clark Kellogg, CBS’s in-studio (and sometimes in-game color announcer) personality. ...
A Packer Is Officially On His Way Out
RealClearSports - Blog —
According to a report in the Miami Herald, longtime CBS NCAA basketball announcer, Billy Packer, has called his last game. Packer, who has been breaking down Final Four games for the past 34 seasons, will be replaced by Clark Kellogg beginning this year. ...
EMBITTERED OLD CODGER FINALLY SACKED
With Leather - Sports news and gossip, panda sex, and the occasional Toonces the driving cat Photoshop —
... Vinegary old fossil Billy Packer, hater of mid-majors and master of being crusty, is being let go by CBS after 34 years of Final Four cantankerousness. That and pronouncing games as over in the first half, as he did this year with North Carolina and Kansas. ...
Best Wishes, Billy Packer. You Don't Have To Go Home, But You Can't Stay On CBS
Sports Bastards —
... I hate to be that guy, but I absolutely cannot stand Billy Packer so I won't be terribly sad to see him not cluttering up my screen during March Madness. With his ACC suck-off tendencies, his dismissal of legitimate mid-major teams like George Mason, and his blatant old-fartism, his knowledge of the game was second only to his ability to piss me off and take the fun out of sports. That said, it is going to be weird watching CBS hoops without Billly Packer. ...
A Long Overdue Move By CBS
Bruins Nation —
eesia39 already blogged the news about Packer and CBS. Barry Jackson from the Miami Herald broke the story earlier today. CBS is making a move, which they should have made sometime last decade:
College basketball commentator Billy Packer, who has announced 34 consecutive Final Fours on network television and created a few controversies along the way, will not be returning to CBS for a 28th season, The Miami Herald has learned.
CBS has decided to replace Packer, 68, with studio analyst Clark Kellogg on its lead announcing ...
