Jim O'Donnell
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Jim O’Donnell: Holiday fantasies include Troy Aikman as new high czar of Halas HallDec 21, 2024 1:29 pm - Chicago, Illinois — gateway city to sports futility. A town where championship teams get broken up, inept executives remain employed and four primary franchise titans operate with all the impunity of Vlad Putin on a local school board in suburban Moscow. But against that cheery backdrop, some Yuletide Ins and Outs to warm a pointless Bears Sunday:
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O’Donnell: Bears’ bold new era can begin by firing Warren, trading WilliamsDec 18, 2024 5:50 am - Jim O’Donnell says the Bears can begin a bold new era by firing team president and CEO Kevin Warren and trading rookie quarterback Caleb Williams.
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Jim O’Donnell: Are Thayer and Joniak about to be forced to walk the Bears’ radio plank?Dec 14, 2024 10:00 am - ANY DAY NOW, THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY may be called in to assess the toxic fumes emanating from Halas Hall. On both the football and business sides, the Chicag...
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O’Donnell: When ‘Go, Cubs, Go’ was nearly lost to the Beach BoysDec 11, 2024 6:00 am - Jim O’Donnell: Remembering when ‘Go, Cubs, Go’ was almost lost at sea by the Beach Boys.
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Jim O’Donnell: Now with an Ivy League finish, Zbikowski still dreams of sweet home ChicagoDec 07, 2024 10:47 am - FINDING TOMMY ZBIKOWSKI WASN'T all that hard. It was the routing that surprised a bit — head east from the Chicago Fire Department and pull over at the Ivy League. That's...
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O’Donnell: Bears’ Poles looks like a beaten manDec 04, 2024 6:00 am - Jim O’Donnell: At Monday’s news conference, Bears General Manager Ryan Poles looked like a beaten man.
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Jim O’Donnell: Even with Eberflus gone, new book attempts to detail ‘McCaskeyism’Nov 30, 2024 10:00 am - IT'S A GREAT TIME to be a Bears fan in much the same way it's a marvelous weekend to still have a Harris/Walz campaign sign on the front lawn. An incomplete head coach no...
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O’Donnell: Fans bear the burden as all sides fail at Halas HallNov 27, 2024 6:00 am - Jim O'Donnell: Fans are bearing the burden as the business and football sides of Halas Hall fail.
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Jim O’Donnell: Vikings won the GM wheel of fortune in ‘22 and it showsNov 23, 2024 10:00 am - A SCANT 34 MONTHS AGO, both the Bears and Vikings were looking for general managers. In the space of 12 days in January 2022, the teams essentially whittled the cosmos of...
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O’Donnell: How quickly would Ryans have Bears at Arlington Park?Nov 20, 2024 6:00 am - Jim O’Donnell: How quickly would the Ryan family have the Bears at Arlington Park?