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Retirement Hasn't Quieted Billy Packer

CHARLOTTE -- Those old, iconic CBS Sports jackets are long gone from Billy Packer's closet. The premier college basketball television analyst for three decades doesn't own a video or DVD of any of his games, either. And that Emmy Award Packer won in 1993? "He's probably using it as a doorstop,'' cracked his son,...

Will Comment Lead to Tim McCarver Being Airbrushed at FOX?

Update: Tim McCarver apologizes, will not be punished for World War II analogy. A mild earthquake rocked the Washington D.C. area last week, but you have to wonder if the ground beneath Tim McCarver's status as FOX's lead baseball analyst is a little less stable after he delivered a rather indelicate analogy during...

Billy Packer Would Have Loved the Upcoming NCAA Tournament

One of the biggest gripes against former CBS basketball analyst Billy Packer was that he didn't respect the mid-majors. He famously complained that there were too many mid-majors in the 2006 NCAA Tournament. That was the year that George Mason upset Michigan State, North Carolina and UConn to get to the Final Four.This...

Jim Nantz Believes That Billy Packer Should Have Been In Hall Before Dickie V

ESPN's college basketball analyst Dick Vitale was enshrined in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame this past September. According to CBS's Jim Nantz, broadcast partner Billy Packer deserved to be there first.When it was put forth to Nantz that the opinion of his former partner among sports fans, blogs and radio types...

Will ABC Give Musberger the 'Billy Packer Treatment'? Doesn't Seem Likely

With about 10 seconds remaining in the third quarter of the Alabama - Clemson "game" (if you can call it that) Brent Musberger said that, to paraphrase, the "good thing about this loss" is that the can still win the ACC Championship, which was their ultimate goal.He and Kirk Herbstreit went on to debate whether or not that...