The guy’s been broadcasting college hoops since well before John Wooden quit coaching it. I don’t hate Packer, which evidently makes me a cult of one. Deadspin, in its’ understated fashion, today referred to him as ”The Archangel of Death.”
We can assume Phil Martelli and Dick Jerardi shared a long, tearful, celebratory hug. Maybe still are. And they aren’t […]
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Billy Packer, you can’t say we hardly knew ye
July 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: broadcasting · college basketball · TV
Baron, Nellie, Tiger, etc.
April 15th, 2008 · No Comments
I have never seen what others seem to in Don Nelson, the longtime NBA coach regarded by many basketball people as an eccentric near-genius. When Nelson took over the Golden State Warriors last season and oversaw a modest turnaround and then an impressive defeat of Dallas in the first round of the playoffs, I thought […]
Tags: broadcasting · Tiger · TV · media · NBA · basketball
Dicky V
April 9th, 2008 · No Comments
I know what you’re wondering, Avid Reader: Tell us, wise and benevolent one, what you think of Dick Vitale being voted into the Basketball Hall of Fame?
Glad you asked, AR. I’m torn, actually. For me, Dick Vitale’s career has always seemed like a Saturday Night Live sketch about a deliberately annoying sports broadcaster. That anyone […]
Tags: pointless yelling · broadcasting · Vitaleness · dumbness
