Jim O'Donnell
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Jim O'Donnell: Lessons from Hitler's Olympics apparently mean nothing to the profits of NBCFeb 09, 2022 12:00 am - THE PARALLELS ARE imprecise at this point in time but nonetheless discomforting. How much greater imaging loft would Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich have gotten out of ...
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Jim O'Donnell: Is Rocky Wirtz battling to cleanse his conscience?Feb 05, 2022 8:00 am - SO ROCKY WIRTZ PLAYED to pedigree this week. And now elements of the Chicago sports media are all lathered up in some kind of Fort Courage victory dance. A very wealthy ...
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O'Donnell: Is Garoppolo headed anywhere where his winning ways could plague the Bears?Feb 02, 2022 12:00 am - SOMETIMES IT'S HARD TO BE an unfettered member of the Jimmy Garoppolo Fan Club. But any dip into melancholia can be tempered when Jimmy G's team - in this case, the San ...
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Jim O'Donnell: Saying goodbye to an era - the amazing race of Dick DuchossoisJan 29, 2022 12:00 am - VOLTAIRE ONCE SUGGESTED that there is birth, there is death and in between are starts of fancied follies and true miseries. Dick Duchossois spent a lifetime trying to ou...
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Jim O'Donnell: Lesson No. 1 for Ryan Poles - always stay ahead of the posse at Halas HallJan 26, 2022 12:00 am - IN A PERFECT BEARS UNIVERSE - hah! - Ryan Poles would receive appropriate sports & media counseling before assuming office as general manager. He would be told to never ...
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O'Donnell: Bears could juice big job hunts by adding Belichick, Dungy to rumored mixJan 22, 2022 7:45 am - DON'T BLAME THE FANBOY MEDIA for the glacialness of the Bears' muskrat ramble to find a new general manager and head coach. George McCaskey and his black-and-blue clue c...
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Jim O'Donnell: Even when Grobstein had no other place to go, Chicago sports radio had to take him inJan 19, 2022 12:00 am - THE LAUDATORY FAREWELLS to Les Grobstein are beginning to slow. All that have been broadcast and written have been well-deserved. A handful have touched magnificence in ...
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O'Donnell: Vegas odds say Flores, but Bill Polian's back pages circle much closer to Super Bowl XXJan 15, 2022 6:00 am - MAYBE IT'S ONLY FOR fans of Wayne Newton, but some odds gods in Las Vegas are indicating that the favorite to be the next head coach of the Bears is Brian Flores. Bettin...
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Jim O'Donnell: George McCaskey's knack for fanning football futility has deep rootsJan 12, 2022 12:00 am - WHEN GEORGE McCASKEY WAS A LAD at St. Emily's school in Mount Prospect, he quarterbacked his team to the championship game of the eighth-grade touch football league. In ...
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Jim O'Donnell: 30 years of "The Score" - from daring phenom to homogenized horizontalingJan 08, 2022 12:00 am - THE CHICAGO RADIO STATION known as "The Score" went on the air 30 years ago this week. If there is any anniversary celebration for WSCR-AM (670) - and station management...