Jim O'Donnell
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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...
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O'Donnell: Adam Amin is Bulls next TV play-by-play voiceJun 01, 2020 1:00 am - "Local boy makes good" will be the theme of the next segment of Bulls broadcast history. President Michael Reinsdorf confirmed Monday that Adam Amin - a native of West s...
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O'Donnell: Kaepernick protest takes on new meaning this weekMay 29, 2020 1:00 am - FOUR YEARS AGO, two young Americans of color protested police brutality in very different ways. Colin Kaepernick was the more famous and visually enduring. And his sidel...
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O'Donnell: Arlington mouses behind as Pritzker OKs resumption of racingMay 29, 2020 1:00 am - LIVE HORSE RACING in Illinois is being given the green light to resume next week. But not a creature will be stirring at Arlington Park. Not even an out-of-state corpora...
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O'Donnell: Fate of summer at Arlington Park still unknownMay 22, 2020 1:00 am - "THE LITTLE RASCALS" always seemed to have one surefire plan: Spanky, Alfalfa and Darla would put on a show - and the whole gang would come. Apparently, that's how manag...
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O'Donnell: Another Bob Frisk staple was the 'Imaginary Door' memoMay 20, 2020 1:00 am - THE EARLY MORNINGS belonged to Bob Frisk. It was the only part of his workday when he could be assured of reasonable degrees of solitude and focus. During the decades wh...