Jim O'Donnell
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O'Donnell: Boo Ricketts, pity frosted Bears season-ticket holders - December Ins and OutsDec 18, 2022 5:00 am - WAY UP NORTH where the air gets cold or way down south where Willy B. Hills currently rolls, a postcard Sunday for the December edition of Ins and Outs. So, the sometime...
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O'Donnell: Is misuse of Fields a bad sign of things to come for the Bears and Arlington Park?Dec 14, 2022 12:00 am - WHEN THE SUPER BOWL-BOUND EAGLES visit Soldier Field Sunday, Justin Fields could score 7 TDs in a 55-27 Bears victory. On-site fans would "ooh." Stay-at-homes would be c...
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Jim O'Donnell: Pat Hughes always the good guy in Cubs broadcast worldDec 11, 2022 6:00 am - WHEN PAT HUGHES ACCEPTS the Ford C. Frick Award at Cooperstown next summer, in intent it will be for "broadcast excellence." Full truth, for those who have tracked the m...
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Jim O'Donnell: Bears are as thick as a brick if Fields plays vs. Green BayDec 04, 2022 5:00 am - THERE IS DUMB, there is inept and then there is Chicago Bears-style thickheadedness. If Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull could still play a halftime show, they would call it...
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Jim O'Donnell: Keith Reinhard selected for media wing of prep basketball Hall of FameNov 30, 2022 12:00 am - KEITH REINHARD WAS ONCE one of the most energizing, intellectually eclectic members of the Chicago sports media community. He loved life, adventure and the possibilities...
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Jim O'Donnell: The beat goes on - a holiday weekend to look back with gratitudeNov 27, 2022 5:00 am - TIM WEIGEL ALWAYS SAID that he thought his No. 1 professional "skill" was recognizing when a window of opportunity was opening. Too many years ago, a window for a sports...
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O'Donnell: Kmet heads the November “In” crowd but why don't Bears shut Fields down?Nov 20, 2022 4:00 am - CLOWNS TO THE LEFT, turkeys to the right, stuck in the middle of a frosty November weekend with the latest monthly installment of Ins and Outs: • In — Cole Kmet — Way in...
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Jim O'Donnell: Jon Stewart reaches for new insight into Kyrie, Kanye and Dave ChappelleNov 16, 2022 12:00 am - JON STEWART IS AN ACQUIRED TASTE who will never play well in the William Henry Harrison Room at the VFW in Osceola, Indiana. But Tuesday night on "Colbert," the comic-p...
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Jim O'Donnell: 20 years later, Arlington's 'Fix Six" Breeders' Cup scandal still resonatesNov 13, 2022 5:30 am - THEY HELD THE 2022 BREEDERS' CUP last weekend at churchly Keeneland in the once-bucolic countryside of Lexington, Kentucky. On NBC, the crescendoing races of the floral-...
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O'Donnell: Forget about Bobby Douglass, Justin Fields' new best friend is the safety slideNov 09, 2022 12:00 am - IF THE BEARS GET LUCKY, Justin Fields will never again rush for 178 yards as he did last Sunday at Soldier Field. He won't even come close. The Bears lost to Miami, 35-3...