Jim O'Donnell
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Jim O'Donnell: "Last Dance," last chance at predicting a perfect Michael Jordan endingMay 28, 2023 1:00 am - THERE WAS A STRONG SENSE that it was instant sports history - a place in time that might endure forever. There were more subtle underpinnings that it would be a singular...
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Jim O'Donnell: Once upon a time in Cleveland, Jim Brown was the NFL's perfect gentlemanMay 24, 2023 1:00 am - THE FIRST PROFESSIONAL SPORTS EVENT that a wee Irishman from suburban Cleveland ever attended was a long ago NFL game between the Browns and visiting Washington. Jim Bro...
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O'Donnell: Rainy week spells nothing but downpour at 'The Score'May 17, 2023 1:00 am - A FEW FLANNEL SHIRTS AGO, robust country ace Luke Combs released one of the more clever music videos of the new millennium with his hit "When It Rains It Pours." That co...
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Jim O'Donnell: Game-by-game point spreads say the '23 Bears should finish … betterMay 14, 2023 5:30 am - IN AN ERA WITH A MORE AND MORE SOPHISTICATED "MADDEN" and legal sports gambling on just about every facet of the NFL, why even bother playing the regular season? Have li...
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O'Donnell: Arlington Park fans can take some comfort in so-so TV ratings of the '23 Kentucky DerbyMay 10, 2023 1:00 am - TO THE REMAINING FANS of racing at Arlington Park, there could have been a dandy fantasy daily double on Kentucky Derby Day last weekend. First leg, Larry Rivelli's Chic...
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Jim O'Donnell: Rivelli says that the Preakness is a 'no go' for Two Phil'sMay 08, 2023 1:00 am - PLEASE HOLD ALL Maryland crabcakes. Two days after his Two Phil's took a lead in the stretch of the Kentucky Derby before finishing a game second, trainer Larry Rive...
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Jim O'Donnell: Like Duchossois, will Reinsdorf try and take his playground with him?May 07, 2023 5:30 am - SOMETIME AROUND 1992, retired Arlington Park COO Sheldon Robbins - a brilliant businessman - predicted that if Dick Duchossois could one day take his regal racetrack wit...
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Jim O'Donnell: Jagged little third railer costs ESPN reporter her jobApr 30, 2023 5:30 am - SNIPS AND SNAILS AND PUPPY-DOG TAILS were once supposed to reside only on the male side of major sports media. All of that changed in an epithet recently when Marly Rive...
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O'Donnell: Northwestern's Skoronski will skip live draft night. Will the Bears dare to skip him?Apr 26, 2023 1:00 am - IF THEY MEASURED HUMILITY in all of the 2023 NFL draft sciences, Peter Skoronski of Northwestern would be way above the chart. In that respect, he's just carrying on...
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Jim O'Donnell: Slim pickings for Bears at new radio home AM-1000Apr 19, 2023 1:00 am - WHEN A WAVERING NFL FRANCHISE enters into a play-by-play rights deal with a radio gulag, good things happening are less likely than FOX's Rupert Murdoch and Tucker Carls...