Billy Packer's next move: The Internet machine

Whatever the specifics -- and we fear some sort of gambling element is involved -- former CBS college basketball analyst Billy Packer is going to appear at the Wynn Race & Sports Book in Las Vegas on Monday to announce his next project.

Packer, Bob Knight and Wynn Race & Sports book executive director Johnny Avello will be there to make the news conference, a rep for the hotel said in an email sent to media folks this afternoon.

Packer (read his current Dickipedia entry here) left CBS last July after broadcasting 34 consecutive Final Four events on TV (for that network and NBC), saying he knew a year earlier that CBS was not going to renew his contract and was set on replacing him with Clark Kellogg.

"They had to move in a direction for their future," said the 68-year-old Packer, who claimed he would devote more time to his business ventures.

USA Today's Michael Hiestand reported last month (linked here) that Packer and Knight, the former Indiana and Texas Tech coach current working at ESPN, were involved in a new website called FantasyPlayers.com, that offers a bracket game, plus analysis, during the 2009 March Madness.