Jim O'Donnell
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O’Donnell: Gone too soon, Teinowitz leaves a colorful legacy on Chicago sports sceneJul 19, 2025 10:48 am - THEY WILL BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY for Harry Teinowitz in Wilmette Monday. The 64-year-old cross-quipper will be celebrated at a service scheduled for the Weinstein & Piser F...
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O’Donnell: Hollow ’05 White Sox reunion merely an elegy for the agedJul 15, 2025 11:01 am - WAS IT RICK NELSON OR FORMER WHITE SOX GM KENNY WILLIAMS who sang, “If memories are all I have, I'd rather drive a truck?” The answer is “A.” But the sentiment was totall...
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O’Donnell: Bob Costas advocating change to reenergize MLB All-Star GameJul 12, 2025 9:28 am - MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL'S ALL-STAR GAME is withering between the lines. If the Cubs land the fading exhibition for 2027, that status will be amended to merely withering bet...
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O’Donnell: D-Rose softens New York kookiness in praising ThibodeauJul 08, 2025 3:13 pm - Jim O’Donnell: Derrick Rose continues to praise his former coach, Tom Thibodeau.
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O’Donnell: A happy Fourth to the Cubs, and anybody else?Jul 05, 2025 10:29 am - FOURTH OF JULY, Fifth of July, Sixth of July — does the calendar really matter all that much in The Captive Sports City? Pick a month, any month, and underachievement is ...
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O’Donnell: Farewell to a wonder — ‘Captain’ Tom Morgan will be rememberedJul 01, 2025 2:16 pm - If first impressions were the only thing that mattered, Tom Morgan may not have made it on to the press box staff at Arlington Park way back in 1976.
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O’Donnell: Grant Hill to NBC recalls a night he called Tim WeigelJun 28, 2025 10:00 am - THERE WAS NOTHING INEVITABLE about Grant Hill signing on with the growing roster that will broadcast NBA games on NBC Universal next season. But he will. The extraordinar...
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O’Donnell: Sunny reign in OKC, more trawling tedium for Bulls fansJun 24, 2025 6:30 pm - While Oklahoma City celebrates an NBA championship, the Bulls appear to be going nowhere.
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O’Donnell: PCA has Cubs fans walking on Wrigley Field sunshineJun 21, 2025 8:36 pm - OH TO BE 23 YEARS OLD, commanding, charismatic and able to flip Major League Baseball games in a single bound. That would be Pete Crow-Armstrong — the Fresh Prince of Wri...
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O’Donnell: Could New Orleans spirit have saved Arlington Park?Jun 17, 2025 1:56 pm - Jim O’Donnell: Could the current Battle of New Orleans spirit have saved Arlington Park?