Jim O'Donnell
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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...
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Jim O'Donnell: Michael Jordan and Julius Erving would be steering Kyrie Irving far differentlyNov 06, 2022 5:00 am - IT'S TOO BAD THAT KYRIE IRVING couldn't have been privy to an off-court conversation that Michael Jordan and Julius Erving once had. The topic was "image management." Dr...
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Jim O'Donnell: One very public bump later, Rafer Weigel is set for a TV news comebackNov 02, 2022 1:00 am - THREE YEARS AGO, Rafer Weigel got caught in a wicked crossfire on Love Street. The talented Chicago TV journalist was scarlet-lettered by two ferociously battling women ...
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Jim O'Donnell: Even after ditching March Madness, Jim Nantz still has many CBS telecasts to goOct 30, 2022 6:30 am - SINCE JIM NANTZ CONFIRMED that the 2023 Men's Final Four will be his last for CBS / Turner, speculation has been swirling about when he's going to walk away from the Mas...
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Jim O'Donnell: Are the Bears and Arlington Heights on a road to nowhere?Oct 26, 2022 1:00 am - AS WORLD WAR I wound down, the former German chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg was asked how such a catastrophic event could have happened. His reply: “Ah, if onl...
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Jim O'Donnell: Olczyk's bittersweet return to the United Center all about unstated valuesOct 23, 2022 6:00 am - EDDIE OLCZYK WILL RETURN to the United Center Sunday afternoon. If he can stand the stink. After 16 seasons in the Blackhawks broadcast booth, the distinctive Chicago na...
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Jim O'Donnell: Will ESPN's "GameDay" continue to ignore the Bielema renaissance at Illinois?Oct 19, 2022 1:00 am - FOR THE FIRST TIME in a long time, University of Illinois football fans don't have to flip Big Ten-West standings upside down to see how their team is doing. The No. 18 ...