Mark Packer is the co-host of Packer and Durham – ACC Network’s weekday morning show from 7-10 a.m. Monday – Friday. The show originates out of Packer’s basement in Charlotte, N.C.
Is Mark Packer related to Billy Packer?
He was married to Barbara, and they had three children. Two of his children (Brandt and Mark) work in sports media, Brandt works as a producer for Golf Channel and Mark is a sports radio host based in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1988, Billy Packer was inducted into the National Polish American Sports Hall of Fame.
Billy Packer, the sharp-eyed, opinionated lead college basketball analyst for NBC and CBS whose commentary was heard during every Final Four game of the N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament from 1975 to 2008, died on Thursday in Charlotte, N.C. He was 82. His son Brandt said the cause was kidney failure.
Packer died of kidney failure on January 26, 2023, at the age of 82.