Jim O'Donnell
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O'Donnell: Aikman knew that yellow pixies - not the Bears - beat Tampa BayOct 14, 2020 1:00 am - TROY AIKMAN WAS working very hard to hold his tongue last Thursday night. And he almost succeeded. The Hall of Famer is far too facile an NFL broadcaster to go overboard...
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Jim O'Donnell: Tom Brady visits Bears in prime time ThursdayOct 07, 2020 1:00 am - CONSIDER THE POTENTIAL FOR INSTANT HISTORY at Soldier Field Thursday night: For the first time since George Halas sat on a running board in that Hupmobile showroom in Ca...
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Jim O'Donnell: Touché of grades is in for Sox, Cubs broadcastersSep 30, 2020 1:00 am - THE SOX ARE ALREADY teetering on the brink and the Cubs stumbled out of the gate. But in a week when much of America wishes it was one, two interruptions and you're out,...
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Jim O'Donnell: Nothing but first class for Gale SayersSep 23, 2020 1:00 am - THE PASSING OF GALE SAYERS recalled a long ago summer Sunday morning at O'Hare. The teenaged United Airlines seasonal hireling - later appropriately deemed "The worst ga...
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O'Donnell: Sox-Cubs finale in Texas would be 'Snubway Series'Sep 18, 2020 1:00 am - PRESUMPTIVENESS IN 2020 would simply seem to be part of The Expanding American Charade. But, with both the White Sox and Cubs knockin' on heaven's door, thoughts of an a...
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Jim O'Donnell: Dan McNeil just 'did his business' and got firedSep 16, 2020 1:00 am - IF THE 16-YEAR-OLD SHEEPDOG - glassy-eyed, halting of gait, incontinent - suddenly shuffles into the living room and "does his business," does the family fire faithful o...
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Jim O'Donnell: NFL's honeymoon with legal gambling all about 'Confidence'Sep 09, 2020 1:00 am - WAY BACK WHEN THE NFL first began to harvest some real TV money, Pete Rozelle and CBS commissioned a vibrant theme song called “Confidence.” It was rousing. It quickly b...
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Jim O'Donnell: 'Amazing' growth for The Mike Spellman Scholarship FundSep 02, 2020 1:00 am - THE HEARTENING, ORGANIC GROWTH of The Mike Spellman Scholarship Fund continues. Despite no formal organization or annual fundraising event behind it, the core endowment ...
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Jim O'Donnell: Memories come flooding back on a visit to French Lick, IndianaAug 28, 2020 1:00 am - FRENCH LICK, Ind. - Socially, the hamlet is miles from nowhere. That includes the bloodstained streets of Kenosha. It's roughly an hour west-northwest of Louisville, ver...
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Jim O'Donnell: Brennaman up against business and brand maintenanceAug 21, 2020 1:00 am - THE CUBS AND THE REDS are two of the oldest franchises in Major League Baseball. Either could have had President Ulysses S. Grant or the inimitable Horace Greeley throw ...