Jim O'Donnell
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O'Donnell: Garoppolo in Halloween lights sure to haunt Bears fansOct 30, 2019 1:00 am - IT WILL BE QUITE a Halloween treat for the hierarchy of the Bears Thursday night. The last team that George McCaskey and Ryan Pace want to see showcased to a fan base di...
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Pat of No Returns: O'Donnell keeping the faith as Bears try to dig back inOct 26, 2019 1:00 am - Normally, being tall, Irish, handsome and extraordinarily personable can give a fellow a head start on a lot of days. But last Sunday wasn't one of those for Bears punte...
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O'Donnell: Anniversary of Jordan's debut a reminder of when Bulls were savedOct 25, 2019 1:00 am - EVERYBODY'S A DREAMER and everybody's a star. And 35 years ago this weekend at Chicago Stadium, the dreams and the stars all teasingly aligned when Michael Jordan made h...
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O'Donnell: Jay Mariotti is monitoring changing tides of Chicago sports talkOct 23, 2019 1:00 am - JAY MARIOTTI HAS BEEN LOATHED, Jay Mariotti has been respected. There has been no more polarizing individual on the Chicago sports media terrain in the past half century...
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O'Donnell: Ditka is feisty, feeling blessed and grateful on his 80th birthdayOct 18, 2019 1:00 am - MIKE DITKA CELEBRATED his 80th birthday Friday. He played some golf in the morning at The Olde Florida Club in Naples, which he owns a piece of near his winter home. Lat...
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O'Donnell: Bob Costas not interested in Marquee of Cubs new TV networkOct 16, 2019 1:00 am - THE QUESTION HAS BEEN swirling around the Cubs cosmos almost as long as the team's search for an effective leadoff man. So during a Yankees-Astros ALCS game this week, T...
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O'Donnell: NBA coaches and players can craft a compelling response to current China crisisOct 11, 2019 1:00 am - FREE SPEECH AND EXPANDING CAPITALISM have collided at the intersection of NBA Highway and China Grove. All because goofball Houston general manager Daryl Morey apparentl...
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O'Donnell: AM 1000 shocks the market with hiring of Boston's 'Hub happening' ThomasOct 09, 2019 1:00 am - FROM MUNDANE to pandering to unlistenable trash, few can argue sports talk radio in Chicago doesn't have it all. As a point of civic pride, the numbing genre checks in s...
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O'Donnell: Theo rambles, Bears amble and surrealism rules the week in Chicago sportsOct 04, 2019 1:00 am - SOME ARE NOW CLEVERLY calling Theo Epstein's Monday news conference "an 81-minute filibuster." They're not wrong. The acrobatic linguist could have held podium for 81 da...
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O'Donnell: Announcement of Neil Funk's retirement only recalls sad tale of Jim Durham and the BullsOct 02, 2019 1:00 am - NEIL FUNK IS RETIRING after 28 years of play-by-play with the Bulls. The announcement was released Wednesday afternoon and wasn't unexpected. He will call regular-season...