Jim O'Donnell
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O'Donnell: End of Arlington Park could be accelerated due to contract stalemate with horsemenDec 18, 2019 12:00 am - THE END COULD BE COMING on much faster for Arlington Park than many people think. While Bill Carstanjen - the CEO of Churchill Downs Inc. - has publicly stated the local...
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O'Donnell: Wow - Fox Sports and Ch. 32 will actually air the correct NFL game SundayDec 13, 2019 12:00 am - WHAT'S THE OLD FARMER'S adage? Even the most feeble man can find a blind squirrel in the rain? Or was that Booger McFarland? Whatever, that robo-lite channeling from Fox...
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O'Donnell: Costas, Halberstam have their say on Harrelson as Frick winnerDec 11, 2019 12:00 am - HAWK HARRELSON HAS ALWAYS had a hustler's charm. And guile. Throw in some major league hand-eye coordination and a knack for embracing windows of opportunity and that su...
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O'Donnell: DePaul's dream of going unbeaten dies hard in 74-69 lossDec 08, 2019 12:00 am - If Frederick Nietzsche covered DePaul men's basketball, he'd probably write it off to the eternal recurrence of the same. If the Grateful Dead had played halftime of the...
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O'Donnell: Four decades later, Dick Vitale is still keeping an eye on DePaulDec 06, 2019 12:00 am - FORTY YEARS AGO this week, an unemployed basketball coach walked into DePaul's Alumni Hall to call his first game on a three month-old cable TV sports network. "I though...
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O'Donnell: Pitchforks and pillories for fans who want a 6-10 finish by the BearsDec 04, 2019 12:00 am - MANY WOULD CALL IT civic blasphemy. It is the love that dare not speak its name. But more history-wearied Bears fans are calling it "intuitively intelligent." And they'r...
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O'Donnell: Could 'The Irishman' help make Netflix a platform player with the NFL?Nov 29, 2019 12:00 am - FORGET ABOUT A HOLIDAY with the Bears, Lions, Cowboys, Bills, Saints and Falcons. If purely unscientific monitoring this Thanksgiving week has been any indicator, a prim...
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O'Donnell: Giving thanks for the DVR and other holiday options on the sports media spray listNov 27, 2019 12:00 am - IF THE PRIMARY LURE of the first Thanksgiving had been a Bears-Lions watch party, there's a very good chance the Wampanoags would have been no-shows. Then there might no...
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O'Donnell: Renewed Olczyk set to float above Macy's Thanksgiving Day ParadeNov 22, 2019 12:00 am - ON THURSDAY, EDDIE OLCZYK WILL BE riding on an NBC float in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. He might as well be floating. It will mark the first time that "Ed...
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O'Donnell: Slumping NASCAR couldn't buy Michael Jordan's energized endorsement on NBCNov 20, 2019 12:00 am - MICHAEL JORDAN LONG AGO confirmed why he frequently had his tongue hanging out when he played basketball: "My dad used to do that when he was working on cars out in our ...