Joe Posnanski

Billy Packer and Dick Vitale gave college basketball its voice

College basketball has a different energy from the other sports on television. It doesn’t stop and start like football or move leisurely through the evening like baseball or gradually build up to the big moments like soccer. It isn’t violent chaos coming at you in shifts like hockey. It isn’t tactical like golf or savage like boxing or a geometry lesson like tennis. College basketball is not even like professional basketball, which is, you know, professional, with all...

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