newsday.com - 7/15/2008
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"It just isn't," he said from his home in North Carolina. "I've never looked upon stuff like that." Um, how about a favorite game or other memory? No dice. And there will be no book, either. "I have things I want to do that are more productive than writing books, " he said. Packer, 68, would not say what those things are, but he is working on "some business projects involving basketball" and ...
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ESPN Should Have Boundaries? Billy Packer’s Getting into the Internet Game? What Planet is This?
The Big Lead —
Not sure which we got a bigger kick out of this morning: ESPN’s ombudsman, Le Anne Schreiber, suggesting that ESPN perhaps get some written standards (and boundaries) in place for all of their writers and talking heads, or Billy Packer, the man who doesn’t use email or own a computer, considering getting into the website game. Are you laughing, too?
Other interesting takes on Packer’s departure: Newsday and USA Today, mostly because they got the old man on the phone.
Christmas in July: No More Billy Packer
Mac Gs World —
Last night while I was watching Rangers OF Josh Hamilton puncture a baseball like a strung out junkie smacks a needle,(too low?) this awesome sports update came across the ESPN ticker: Billy Packer will not be returning to CBS as their number one college basketball announcer. ...
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testudotimes.com 7/15/2008 — Stephen Smalls and Brian Whitmore Transfer It's never a good thing to see players transfer. Unfortunately, both of these transfers make perfect sense, as sad as that is to say. Both play at a position where there are a lot of players. Neither looked ...
Panthers get some bite —
Hoops on Hoops - NY Daily News Blogs 7/15/2008
Pitt got a huge boost today when 6-9 power forward/center Dante Taylor (National Christian Academy, Ft. Washington) verbally committed to the Panthers. Taylor - a Top 25 prospect - said he chose Pitt over Kansas, Syracuse, UConn and Memphis.
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PACKER OUT AT CBS —
NY Post: Sports 7/15/2008
CBS yesterday confirmed a report that Billy Packer, synonymous with college basketball on CBS the last 28 years, is no longer with the network. Clark Kellogg will replace Packer as Jim Nantz's courtside partner, this season. Packer, 68 and who...
