Jim O'Donnell
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O'Donnell: David Stern's handling of 'The Michael Jordan Crisis of 1993' might have been his greatest featJan 03, 2020 11:30 pm - IF NOTHING ELSE, David Stern departed to join celestial company. When the longtime commissioner of the NBA died Wednesday, he was immediately hailed as a peer of the mos...
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O'Donnell: Don Imus and Larry Lujack both touched sports, but from very different baselinesJan 01, 2020 12:00 am - NEW YORK HAD Don Imus, Chicago had Larry Lujack. With the passing of Imus at age 79 last week, the question is inbounds as holiday games: Who ruled? Both hit the nationa...
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O'Donnell: Too hard not to be lookin' back at 2019, peekin' ahead to 2020Dec 27, 2019 12:00 am - WAY BACK WHEN BOB SEGER was still singing hungry, he noted: "Too many people lookin' back." Nonetheless, at the end of a calendar year, that's what media does. So, purel...
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O'Donnell: A wail of two cities - Trubisky's Cleveland bears much resemblance to Trubisky's ChicagoDec 25, 2019 12:00 am - MENTOR, Ohio - The temptation was too great. By holiday timing and family ties, a visit to a city where its NFL team: • Has grossly underperformed in 2019; • Was directe...
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O'Donnell: Hey high schools! An enduring honor for Bob Frisk is long overdueDec 20, 2019 12:00 am - FOR 50 YEARS - dat's right Jack, 50 years - Bob Frisk was as relentlessly prominent an advocate of the young athlete as any journalist at any newspaper in America. He re...
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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...