Jim O'Donnell
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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...
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Jim O'Donnell: Elegant memories of Duchossois, Million too much for CDI to leave aloneMar 16, 2022 1:00 am - NEWS THAT THAT SOME KNOCKOFF of the Arlington Million will be held in August at Churchill Downs is like hearing the Bears are being forced to relocate to south central L...
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Jim O'Donnell: Courting March winners - hidden keys to bracketing a perfect Final FourMar 11, 2022 12:00 am - THE GRAND WINDSOCKS of the American sports spring once were the Masters, Major League Baseball's Opening Day and the Kentucky Derby. Now, a greed-driven lockout and some...
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Jim O'Donnell: Homestretch outlook on Collins, Stubblefield, Underwood and ValentineMar 09, 2022 12:00 am - WHEN PORTER MOSER LED Loyola to the Sweet Sixteen last March and then bolted for Oklahoma, the earth didn't exactly begin to quake under all premier regional men's D-I p...