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The curse of Billy Packer

By Bill Simmons
Page 2

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Editor's note: This column appears in the March 26 issue of ESPN The Magazine. Please sit down before you read the next paragraph. I mentioned its contents to a bunch of friends, and everyone had the same reaction. First they laughed and said, "No, that's not true." When I spelled out the facts, there was dead silence, followed by the words "No, no, no, no … " Finally, they either passed out from shock or tumbled backward into a chair, where they remained for a few minutes muttering to the ...

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