Media
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Bulls expert Mark Schanowski cutting back at NBC Sports ChicagoAug 16, 2019 1:00 am - Mark Schanowski, the affable and authoritative Chicago Bulls basketball analyst who's been a prominent player on the local sports media scene for three decades, is cutti...
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Feder: WBEZ CEO Goli Sheikholeslami resigns in surprise moveAug 14, 2019 1:00 am - The most powerful woman in Chicago journalism is leaving town after five years for a new job in New York. In a surprise announcement today, Goli Sheikholeslami said she ...
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O'Donnell: When Ben Zobrist finally speaks, what's he supposed to say?Aug 14, 2019 1:00 am - THERE IS A GROWING CLAMOR among some segments of baseball media for Ben Zobrist to speak. He is the Eureka!-to-riches Cubs hero who was apparently blindsided early this ...
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O'Donnell: Could Iowa legal action block Sox-Yankees 'Field of Dreams' game?Aug 09, 2019 1:00 am - THEY MOWED PARADISE and put up a "Field of Dreams." And now they're going to further disrupt some bucolic lifestyles by bringing an MLB game between the White Sox and th...
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O'Donnell: CDI, gaming puzzles in Illinois much more interesting than Arlington MillionAug 07, 2019 1:00 am - WHEN THEY RAN the first Arlington Million in 1981, it was a grand international event. NBC Sports sent an A-list crew headed by Dick Enberg and the chase-fevered Pete Ax...
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Feder: The Score's Parkins, Ostrowski to lead fantasy sports podcastAug 07, 2019 1:00 am - Entercom Communications has enlisted a couple of hosts from sports/talk WSCR 670-AM as regular contributors to a new four-hour nightly podcast on sports betting and fant...
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O'Donnell: Palatine's Mayor Schwantz hoping his multi-tasking includes a Bears Super BowlAug 02, 2019 1:00 am - JIM SCHWANTZ HAS AMPLE REASON to wish there were 48 hours in each day. Consider the man's public resume: Mayor of Palatine; Super Bowl champ; Moving company executive; F...
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Rozner: Whatever happened to Peggy Kusinski?Jul 29, 2019 1:00 am - Peggy Kusinski was driving through a fog so thick even the fog couldn't see where it was going. Still, she turned the key, tapped the gas and sped forward. It's dangerou...
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O'Donnell: Will 'The Curse of the Honey Bears' sideline Matt Nagy and karmic blue?Jul 26, 2019 1:00 am - THE CUBS FINALLY broke "The Curse of 'The Goat.' " The Bulls may live on into perpetuity with "The Curse of 'The Breakup.' " And the Bears are showing no inclination to ...
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O'Donnell: 'Duck, dodge and hide' the apparent new passwords at AM-1000Jul 25, 2019 1:00 am - THEY OFFER TWO TYPES of programming at ESPN AM-1000: The unlistenable and the not listened to. And in the corporate vertical from the local disaster signal on up to ESPN...