usatoday.com - 7/15/2008
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Days before last season's Final Four, I asked Billy Packer if they'd be his last CBS games. His answer: "Who knows?" He knew. ...
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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.
Billy Packer's Tyranny Has Ended. That Should Be the Story.
Straight Bangin' —
... the "occasionally controversial" Packer's missteps and focused on the transactional nature of the news: Packer out, Kellogg in, Anthony waiting. USA Today was more in-depth, though I learned more about Packer's absolutely insane personal life than his legacy as a broadcaster. (A Psychic? No typing or interwebs? Is this Billy Packer or John McCain?) Only Diane Pucin of the LA Times ...
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Billy Packer Sucks
talleywhackers.wordpress.com 7/15/2008 — Billy Packer was an institution, but that doesn't mean we're sad to see him go. Homophobia, cantankerous comments and blatant bias against the underdog are all reasons this guy should have been gone years ago. Also, anyone who makes us recall perestoika needs to go.
CBS Replacing Billy Packer with Clark Kellogg
larrybrownsports.com 7/15/2008 — 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 ...
No emotional farewell for stubborn Packer -
newsday.com 7/15/2008 — "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 ...
Billy Packer Is Ejected
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com 7/15/2008 — The announcer who rankled N.C.A.A. hoops fans for years has been fired.
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...
