Sports Columns
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Lincicome: Out of sync with the times, technology, baseball is most certainly doomedOct 08, 2022 1:00 am - Baseball has brackets. Honest. Byes, too. Yes. I saw this on ESPN with optics and icons, cluttered with all the paraphernalia of significance. A dozen teams are paired o...
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Jim O'Donnell: Place blame on White Sox flop where it belongs: Jerry ReinsdorfOct 07, 2022 1:00 am - MAYBE IT'S NOT COMPLETELY fair to call all of the current Chicago sports media "mousey." But if a block of cheese was thrown into any media room or sports talk show arou...
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O'Donnell: Jerry Vainisi - GM of the Super Bowl champion Bears - was 'a Halas guy' to the endOct 06, 2022 1:00 am - WHEN JERRY VAINISI WAS abruptly ousted as general manager of the Bears in 1987 - less than 14 months after the team's iconic victory in Super Bowl 20 - Mike Ditka cried....
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St. Charles pro Carroll wins Illinois PGA Player of the YearOct 04, 2022 1:00 am - Brian Carroll, head professional at The Hawk Country Club in St. Charles, is the Illinois PGA Player of the Year. Carroll, who led the Bernardi point standings most of t...
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Jim O'Donnell: Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder - will sports gaming media ever generate another one like him?Oct 01, 2022 1:00 am - JIMMY "THE GREEK" SNYDER has been betting with fellow spirits in the sky since his death in 1996. He exited network TV even earlier than that. In January 1988, CBS Sport...
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Lincicome: When Judge homer chase fails to excite, what does that say for baseball?Sep 30, 2022 1:00 am - Irony is not baseball's friend yet when New York Yankee Aaron Judge's 61st home run of the season sailed over an outfield sign promoting gambling, it seemed the right de...
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Jim O'Donnell: Eberflus inaugural Bears at 3-1 in October? Who would have dreamed it?Sep 28, 2022 1:00 am - THREE WEEKS AGO, anyone who called the Bears hitting the opening strides of October at 3-1 can now report to Marc Trestman Pavilion at Arlington Park to claim your used ...
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Lincicome: Advice to Justin Fields, best to get to know Bears Fan while he is still on your sideSep 24, 2022 1:00 am - Bears Fan, meet Justin Fields. Justin Fields, meet Bears Fan. You will know each other on sight. Bears Fan is the one wearing the jersey with the No. 1 and the name "Fie...
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Jim O'Donnell: Adam Amin aiming to call more Aaron Judge history on Fox Thursday nightSep 21, 2022 1:00 am - HISTORY CAN FREQUENTLY be in the prejudiced sports brain. South of The Brat Stop, a Bears win in Green Bay is always big. A non-implosive decision by the current hierarc...
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Lincicome: LIV golf is for the greedy, the ungrateful and the inadequateSep 16, 2022 1:00 am - To the surprise of some, mostly me, the Hybrid Greed Golf Tour, has made it here, reasonably sturdy and irritatingly ominous; that is to say, it has not gone away as I p...