blogs.usatoday.com - 7/14/2008
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The Miami Herald is reporting that veteran college basketball commentator Billy Packer is out at CBS, and will be replaced by studio analyst Clark Kellogg. Packer has announced 34 consecutive Final Fours, and has been with CBS for 28 consecutive...
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Goodnight, Sweet Prince
Thirtyfive Seconds —
... Sure, it’s easy to think that Packer wrote his own pink slip earlier this year when he announced that the KU-UNC national semifinal game was “over”, encouraging viewers to change the channel with seven minutes to go until halftime. ...
Report: Billy Packer out at CBS
Card Chronicle —
Ladies and gentlemen, our long national nightmare might be over.
I don't even care that Kellogg is the replacement.
Billy Packer's streak of Final Fours is over after 34 years, The Miami Herald reported Monday.
Packer, a color commentator, will be replaced in CBS' coverage by studio analyst Clark Kellogg, network representative Leslie Anne Wade confirmed to the newspaper. Jim Nantz will continue in his Final Four play-by-play role.
Packer, 68, will leave CBS after 28 years to pursue "other projects in basketball," ...
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awfulannouncing.blogspot.com 7/14/2008 — Since I've started this site many people have 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 ...
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miamiherald.com 7/14/2008 — 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.
Good Riddance Billy Packer
georgemasonbasketball.blogspot.com 7/14/2008 — 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, where he bashed not only George Mason but Wichita S
Goodbye, Billy. Hello … Clark? Aw, F*ck.
brahsome.com 7/14/2008 —
Billy Packer has called his last Final Four, folks. That’s right. The bastion of CBS gerontological stubbornness is stepping down from his post as the nation’s top analyst in college basketball [by virtue of default].
This would be ...
