Jim O'Donnell
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O’Donnell: Fantasy football players are ‘in’ as NFL ’25 approachesAug 09, 2025 10:00 am - Columnist Jim O’Donnell has some thoughts on Sports news so far in August.
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O’Donnell: Kane mum on whether he’ll retire with BlackhawksAug 05, 2025 2:39 pm - Jim O’Donnell: Patrick Kane, who now plays for Detroit, isn’t commenting on whether he’ll retire with the Blackhawks.
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Jim O'Donnell: Could the Cubs have waded through a worse week?Aug 03, 2025 6:00 am - IN FIVE QUEASY PIECES, the happy blue helium began to seep out of the big beautiful balloon that's been hovering over Wrigley Field this season.
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Jim O’Donnell: Forty years later, an odd memory of the Arlington Park fireJul 26, 2025 11:58 am - There has never been any question that the igniting event of the Arlington Park fire altered a whole lot of paddock trajectories.
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O’Donnell: Listing only some of the ways this Bears season could get weirdJul 22, 2025 2:39 pm - Jim O’Donnell: Ten things that will juice the Bears’ season.
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O’Donnell: Gone too soon, Teinowitz leaves a colorful legacy on Chicago sports sceneJul 19, 2025 10:48 am - THEY WILL BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY for Harry Teinowitz in Wilmette Monday. The 64-year-old cross-quipper will be celebrated at a service scheduled for the Weinstein & Piser F...
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O’Donnell: Hollow ’05 White Sox reunion merely an elegy for the agedJul 15, 2025 11:01 am - WAS IT RICK NELSON OR FORMER WHITE SOX GM KENNY WILLIAMS who sang, “If memories are all I have, I'd rather drive a truck?” The answer is “A.” But the sentiment was totall...
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O’Donnell: Bob Costas advocating change to reenergize MLB All-Star GameJul 12, 2025 9:28 am - MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL'S ALL-STAR GAME is withering between the lines. If the Cubs land the fading exhibition for 2027, that status will be amended to merely withering bet...
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O’Donnell: D-Rose softens New York kookiness in praising ThibodeauJul 08, 2025 3:13 pm - Jim O’Donnell: Derrick Rose continues to praise his former coach, Tom Thibodeau.
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O’Donnell: A happy Fourth to the Cubs, and anybody else?Jul 05, 2025 10:29 am - FOURTH OF JULY, Fifth of July, Sixth of July — does the calendar really matter all that much in The Captive Sports City? Pick a month, any month, and underachievement is ...