Jim O'Donnell
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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...
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O'Donnell: If only Michael would end the 'Dance' with full honestyMay 15, 2020 1:00 am - SO FOUR WEEKS and millions of words after it began, "The Last Dance" ends Sunday night. As a sports imaging venture, it will be considered a success. As deep examination...
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O'Donnell: LeBron goes high, Michael goes 'bye' as legacies airMay 13, 2020 1:00 am - TWO BASKETBALL IMAGES passing in the air continue their very real duel of legacies this weekend. In portals disposed to the back bounces of Chicago, the most prominent w...
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O'Donnell: 'Secret Sox' - Sunday's 'Last Dance' episodes have it allMay 08, 2020 1:00 am - WITH ITS END NIGHT of May 17 approaching, ESPN's "The Last Dance" finally goes full throttle Sunday night. In Episodes 7 and 8, the Michael Jordan imaging venture uses s...
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O'Donnell: Opening boom of 'The Last Dance' becoming snap, crackle, what?May 06, 2020 1:00 am - THE ICING ON THE CAKE continues to slowly melt away from ESPN's "The Last Dance." For the third straight week, the Michael Jordan imaging venture continued to lose audie...