Jim O'Donnell
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O'Donnell: Masur hoping to bring Peoria magic to Sox radiocastsJul 08, 2020 1:00 am - THERE APPARENTLY STILL IS a tree with magical broadcast limbs that grows in Peoria. Andy Masur - the new voice of the White Sox on WGN-AM (720) - knows all about it. The...
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O'Donnell: Fourth-and-folly — Who's going to watch all of these summer games?Jul 03, 2020 1:00 am - WHERE WOULD AMERICA BE without summer's whiff of spectacle? Fireworks. Pennant races. NFL training camps. Where would American TV be without the profitable lure of fresh...
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O'Donnell: Determined Thomas trying to keep hope alive at AM-1000Jul 01, 2020 1:00 am - THERE ONCE WAS A TIME when sports talk radio in Chicago was fresh. That would have been when Bill Clinton was in the White House, "The Lion King" was about to happen and...
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O'Donnell: Georgeff never called any rocketing doctors over ArlingtonJun 26, 2020 1:00 am - NO FIREWORKS AT ARLINGTON PARK next weekend reminds of a great holiday-themed local TV racing tale: Gerry Gallitano was a fair-to-middlin' jockey on the Chicago-Florida ...
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O'Donnell: Arlington 2020 more about melancholy than horse race meetJun 24, 2020 1:00 am - WILLIE NELSON ONCE SANG, "Love is like a dying ember." Maybe the Redheaded Stranger could summon up some fresh melancholia for the boned round of swill to be known as "A...
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O'Donnell: Jeannie Morris grateful for aftermath of Brian Piccolo's short seasonJun 19, 2020 1:00 am - JEANNIE MORRIS WAS trying to link into a Zoom conference this week and her computer wasn't cooperating. It was frustrating - even though her background knowledge of the ...
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O'Donnell: Arlington Park, horsemen have tentative deal, with July opening targetedJun 17, 2020 1:00 am - SOME WILL CALL IT thoroughbred racing. As far away from the grandeur of Million I as Dutch marble racing is from Royal Ascot, Arlington Park will apparently conduct an a...
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O'Donnell: Would LeBron lead an iconic 'George Floyd Statement'?Jun 10, 2020 1:00 am - IN A PANDEMIC-FREE WORLD, the 2020 NBA Finals would have started last Thursday. Now, there are vague guarantees they might be over by Halloween, with Mickey, Minnie and ...
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O'Donnell: Decision day appears to be June 18 for Arlington ParkJun 08, 2020 1:00 am - THE CHARADE HAS DEVOLVED into numbingly repetitive bad theater. Bill Carstanjen and Churchill Downs Inc. have no contract with the Illinois Thoroughbred Horseman's Assoc...
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O'Donnell: Cavalry arriving at Arlington? Emergency Racing Board meeting FridayJun 03, 2020 1:00 am - ARE THOSE SKELETONS rattling at Northwest Highway and Wilke a renewed possibility of some sort of live thoroughbred racing at Arlington Park this summer? Or is it merely...