Jim O'Donnell
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Jim O'Donnell: Dan Roan has stayed likable during his long run at WGNApr 12, 2022 1:00 am - ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHICAGO, nightly TV sportscasts mattered. Johnny Morris and Tim Weigel were the intensely combative kings. Chet Coppock was the first to fall on his ...
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Jim O'Donnell: Sox, Cubs, Lightfoot, Bears - a guide to 'ins' and 'outs' of the transiting sports terrainApr 08, 2022 1:00 am - ON A SPORTS WEEKEND brimming with action from tee to shining "C," a fleeting step back to categorize what's what and who's snoozy. An Incomplete Insouciant's Guide to cu...
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Jim O'Donnell: Betting The Masters? All Illini sentimentality says go with young 'Willie Z'Apr 06, 2022 1:00 am - GENERALLY, BETTING A PGA TOURNAMENT can be as excruciating as being forced to sit through a four-day Nicolas Cage film festival. And then there is the matter of young Wi...
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Jim O'Donnell: National title is great for Kansas, not so good for bettors who backed JayhawksApr 05, 2022 1:00 am - WAS IT BOB DYLAN or Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder who wrote: "You don't need a bunch of gambling touts to tell you which way your bet is blowing?" In the closing seconds of K...
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Jim O'Donnell: MLB Opening Day '22 - game is for Grandpa, drone racing is for dwindling knothole gangApr 02, 2022 9:00 am - THERE ARE POCKETS OF EXCITEMENT sprinkled throughout the Chicago area over the fact the 2022 Major League Baseball season begins later this week. There are also pockets ...
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Jim O'Donnell: Fighting Illini's extension of Underwood comes with predictable risk to programMar 30, 2022 1:00 am - FIRST, BEGIN WITH a clear acknowledgment: Few "Fan Nation" bases in America - students, alumni, former co-op record store owners still living in Champaign - deserve an N...
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Jim O'Donnell: Consequences of Will Smith's 'slap shot moment' extend beyond any sports movieMar 29, 2022 1:00 am - FOR EVERYDAY PEOPLE who like Will Smith, generally good things have happened every time he's touched a movie steeped in some aspect of sports or athleticism. That horizo...
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Jim O'Donnell: How the assassination of JFK changed Krzyzewski coaching careerMar 25, 2022 1:00 am - ON NOV. 19, 1963, two days before he left for his planned five-city tour of Texas, President John F. Kennedy sat in the Oval Office chatting with Evelyn Lincoln, his lon...
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Jim O'Donnell: 8 winners no waiting! Navigating the men's Sweet 16Mar 23, 2022 1:00 am - TAKE A NEW TRANSFER PORTAL CULTURE, add in some odd officiating and boom, zappo: Presenting the improbable Sweet 16 of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Five of the ...
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Jim O'Donnell: For local college hoops, March tourneys are uncertain and the end always nearMar 18, 2022 11:00 pm - WHEN BIDDING ADIEU, the great Phil Georgeff was fond of borrowing from Shakespeare to puckishly say, “Parting is such sweet sorrow.” But then, “The Voice” would always a...