Jim O'Donnell
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O’Donnell: Grant Hill keeping it nice with extension at TNTApr 05, 2025 10:15 am - A FEW WINTERS AGO, BILL RAFTERY SAT in a downtown Milwaukee pub, skirting midnight with one old chum and two relatively new ones. The main event that evening had been a B...
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O’Donnell: Celebrating the 2004-05 Fighting IlliniApr 01, 2025 9:20 pm - Jim O’Donnell: It’s a good time to celebrate the anniversary of the 2004-05 Fighting Illini team that reached the NCAA championship game.
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O’Donnell: Cleansed, hungry roster enabling Donovan to coach the Bulls againMar 29, 2025 4:48 pm - SURE THE NCAA TOURNAMENTS are picking up more championship speed this week, and Major League Baseball's opening weekend is nudging the attention frame. But around Chicago...
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O’Donnell: Breaking down a Sweet and Sour SixteenMar 25, 2025 6:25 pm - Jim O’Donnell: Breaking down a Sweet and Sour Sixteen for the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments.
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Jim O’Donnell: Bernstein prompts his own catch-and-release by ‘The Score’Mar 22, 2025 4:36 pm - Chicago media veteran Dan Bernstein was fired Friday by management at WSCR, 670-AM. Bernstein's function-delete transgression at “The Score” was to get into a thoroughly pointless social media crossfire with a face in the crowd who questioned a recent photo of the 54-year-old North Shore native hoisting a fish he had caught at Northerly Island. Following baited public lure, management patience regarding Dan Bernstein caught and released Friday.
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O’Donnell: Moving money matters during March MadnessMar 18, 2025 9:11 pm - Jim O’Donnell: It's moving money that now matters in the madness of March.
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Jim O’Donnell: In search of grace — and the perfect NCAA bracketMar 15, 2025 10:00 am - THE GREATEST CERTAINTY IN AMERICAN SPORTS makes its annual popout beginning right around dusk Sunday. And that's that no one on planet Earth or its neighbors will pick a ...
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O’Donnell: Song of media choir, Bears ‘won’ offseasonMar 11, 2025 7:39 pm - Jim O’Donnell: Despite last season’s humiliations, the media are already calling the Bears’ offseason a victory.
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O’Donnell: Lamb’s end — too much sports on TV in MarchMar 08, 2025 10:22 am - THE WHOLE NEW TRUTH IS that March comes in like a lion's 72-inch HD screen with far too many sports and games on TV. No human being constrained by a conventional 168-hour...
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O’Donnell: Harness any March thoughts of champ from IllinoisMar 04, 2025 6:42 pm - Jim O’Donnell: As Chicago’s pro sports team continue to struggle, it doesn’t look much better for the state’s NCAA Division I men’s basketball teams.