Jim O'Donnell
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Jim O'Donnell: Poles, Harbaugh, Getsy, Kimmel, Rodgers — NFL dominates the media weekJan 11, 2024 6:00 am - AT LEAST A SLUMBERING SPORTS AMERICA knows how to stay cocooned. Two significant foreign conflicts, disruptive winter weather and the final days until the 2024 Iowa p...
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Jim O'Donnell: Nantz and Romo are nice Lambeau dressing for Bears' low-impact bowl gameJan 07, 2024 6:00 am - THE NEW YEAR FOR THE BEARS officially begins when the scoreboard clock strikes a final 00:00 at Lambeau Field this afternoon. All else has been New Year's Eve. The ga...
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Jim O'Donnell: Once Luke Getsy is gone from the Bears, here's five for the loadJan 04, 2024 6:00 am - THE BEARS CAN BEAT GREEN BAY 73-0 Sunday afternoon and the No. 1 survey answer outside of Halas Hall Monday morning will be that Luke Getsy has got to go. The man is ...
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Jim O'Donnell: Caitlin Clark and women's volleyball can't save a tedious year in sportsDec 31, 2023 6:00 am - SHOULD AULD ACQUAINTANCE BE FORGOT, 2023 – the year in sports media – isn't very far behind. The passwords were: “banalities” and “redundant.” Rights fees have never ...
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Jim O'Donnell: Sean McDonough's on-air candor cut through Northwestern's bowl winDec 28, 2023 6:00 am - BEHIND THE PLAY-BY-PLAY VENEER of Sean McDonough are the heart and instincts of a quality journalist. Part of that is pedigree: For more than four decades, his father...
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Jim O'Donnell: The truth could set Justin Fields freeDec 21, 2023 6:00 am - IN A PERFECT SPORTS MEDIA WORLD, Justin Fields would shed his muzzle, step up to the microphones at Halas Hall and let loose an unabridged summary of his three season...
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Jim O’Donnell: Sports talk radio in Chicago – is it still there?Dec 17, 2023 6:00 am - THERE ARE AT LEAST TWO THINGS more boring than listening to sports talk radio in Chicago. One is writing about it. A second is reading about it. So let’s get this obl...
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O’Donnell: Doctor, doctor, give me the score – NFL ‘23 on quite a roll with house callsDec 13, 2023 4:13 pm - BY NOW, ANYONE WHO CARES realizes that NFL games can easily be doctored. Under existing federal law, according to author Brian Tuohy, that’s all perfectly legal regar...
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Jim O'Donnell: If Reinsdorf's team is going, please leave a fresh AL franchise on the South SideDec 10, 2023 7:00 am - ALMOST ALL OF THE BEST PLOTS involving Jerry Reinsdorf only grow thicker and thicker. The man could have been a conceptual adviser to spy novelist John le Carre'. The Wh...
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Jim O'Donnell: From Vegas overnight, former Daily Herald contributor sharpens sports gaming columnDec 06, 2023 12:00 am - WITH LEGAL SPORTS BETTING now serving as the gateway social morphine for segments of America, the land has never been as littered with so many worthless touts. As the la...