Jim O'Donnell
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Jim O'Donnell: Calabrese's exit from racing another sign Arlington has faded to memoryJan 25, 2024 6:00 am - AS LONG AS THEY TELL TALES of Arlington Park, they will tell stories about Frank C. Calabrese. The two most dominant personalities of the track's final two decades we...
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Jim O'Donnell: Maybe Ted Nugent could help Reinsdorf freshen the art of the leakJan 21, 2024 6:00 am - WITH HIS 88TH BIRTHDAY a little more than a month away, Jerry Reinsdorf says that he has no hobbies. He doesn't play bridge. He's never really golfed. All of his old ...
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Jim O’Donnell: Would Harbaugh’s Falcons fix the Fields dilemma at Halas Hall?Jan 18, 2024 6:00 am - THEY'RE STARTING TO GET a little twitchy down in Atlanta, and the vibrations could help quickly flip the muddled QB Etch-a-Sketch to “clean” in Lake Forest. Jim H...
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Jim O'Donnell: Reinsdorf's haunted Bulls can't even properly stage a ‘night of happy’Jan 14, 2024 6:00 am - NO ONE AT THE UNITED CENTER Friday night was booing Thelma Krause. It'd be nice if the media simpletons attempting to report on the unveiling of the Bulls' new “Ring ...
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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...