Billy Packer, an Emmy award-winning college basketball broadcaster who covered 34 Final Fours for NBC and CBS, died Thursday.
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He joined NBC in 1974 and called his first Final Four in 1975. UCLA defeated Kentucky in the final that year in what wasPacker was also part of the announce crew in 1979 with Dick Enberg and Al McGuire when Magic Johnson’s Michigan State team defeated Larry Bird’s Indiana State squad in the title game. That game remains highest-rated game in basketball history with a 21.1 Nielsen rating, which is an estimated 35.1 million viewers.
Sean McManus, the chairman of CBS Sports, said Packer was “synonymous with college basketball for more than three decades and set the standard of excellence as the voice of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.”Pelé was a disrupter in the way that mattered most to him: He expanded the limits of the possible. But what did he really think about what soccer had become?
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