Jim O'Donnell
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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...
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Jim O'Donnell: If the Bears abandon Arlington, what about the Cubs and an alternative Wrigley Field?Dec 02, 2023 12:00 am - THE SPECULATION IS MERELY "in the wind." But the longer the Bears allow the land that once housed Arlington Park to lie barren, the more rumors will ripple that Tom Rick...
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Jim O'Donnell: Too much ragged history for the Bears to have a shot at Jim HarbaughNov 29, 2023 12:00 am - HERE'S A BOLD STATEMENT that's hard to pick apart: Jim Harbaugh is the most talked about unbeaten football coach in America. Love him or diss 'im, "My Way James" is show...
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Jim O'Donnell: Searching for gratuitous gratitude on a hollow sports Thanksgiving in ChicagoNov 23, 2023 6:00 am - IF THANKSGIVING WAS BASED on the current successes of the five major professional teams in Chicago, the holiday wouldn't be observed. Since "Passover" has already been t...
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Jim O'Donnell: Long football line just said "no" before Northwestern settled on David BraunNov 19, 2023 6:00 am - ONE WEEKEND AGO, David Braun and Northwestern stunned Wisconsin 24-10 at Camp Randall Stadium to move to 5-5 in 2023. On The Enchanted Lakefront, the sighs of relief cou...