Jim O'Donnell
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O'Donnell: NBA, MLB and NFL all going down a rough midwinter chuteFeb 14, 2020 12:00 am - WHEN ONE OF THE MOST PATHETIC WEEKENDS in the new-mill history of sports is hitting America in the schnozz, what is there to do but call it what it is? And that would be...
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O'Donnell: Droopy NBA All-Star Weekend in Chicago will be must-flee TVFeb 12, 2020 12:00 am - WHAT IF THE NBA held an All-Star Weekend and no one cared? Would that be like major American cinema finding out it has to look to South Korea for its sharpest dark comed...
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O'Donnell: No place to go but up for revamping AM-1000Feb 07, 2020 12:00 am - TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO, full-time sports talk radio in Chicago began with modest expectations. They long ago were met. Modestly. Now, the brain-numbing niche is generall...
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O'Donnell: J-Lo and Shakira — was the halftime show #MeToo racy or a bumpy Ice Capades?Feb 05, 2020 12:00 am - JONATHAN SWIFT WROTE in an age when he had neither the benefit or curse of the internet, the DVR and Uber Eats. In “Gulliver's Travels,” he did note: “What some invent, ...
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O'Donnell: Shanahan, Shanahan and Belichick - Could Jimmy G possibly be more prepared for SB 54?Jan 31, 2020 12:00 am - WITHOUT SPECULATION, where would the Super Bowl be? A major national gaming association has estimated that at least 26 million Americans will have some sort of direct be...
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'It makes anything I do seem easy': The connect between Jimmy Garoppolo and his dadJan 30, 2020 12:00 am - If landing the labor vote is a key to winning Super Bowl 54, Jimmy Garoppolo and the Forty-Niners win. Father Tony Garoppolo of Arlington Heights was a card-carrying mem...
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O'Donnell: TNT 'wake,' fresh Super Bowl helping America mourn KobeJan 29, 2020 12:00 am - SPORTS MASS AMERICA has never needed a fresher, more distracting Super Bowl than it does this week. And Sports Mass America has seldom needed a very public video wake as...
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O'Donnell: Kobe and Michael — Two images who should stay forever youngJan 27, 2020 12:00 am - When Michael Jordan entered the NBA, he was laden with tempered expectations. He wasn't going to be the next Bill Russell. Nor the next Wilt Chamberlain or Kareem Abdul-...
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O'Donnell: More spin around Arlington Park - Track may open earlier than ever for 'leased' trainingJan 24, 2020 12:00 am - NO WORDS HAD TO BE SPOKEN for it to be understood at last Tuesday's monthly meeting of the flaccid Illinois Racing Board: When it comes to any aspect about the operation...
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O'Donnell: The Cubs, Sinclair Broadcasting and Comcast - did Ricketts have a PR death wish?Jan 22, 2020 12:00 am - LESS THAN A YEAR AGO, the Cubs had imaging problems with the specters of Joe Ricketts' emails and the return of Addison Russell from domestic entrails hovering over the ...