Jim O'Donnell
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O'Donnell: Dan Jiggetts on how Chet Coppock assisted in the rise of Oprah WinfreyJul 10, 2019 1:00 am - A GREAT DAN JIGGETTS TALE prepping for "The Life and Times of Chet Coppock" Wednesday night at Mike Taffe's Eddie's Lounge in Arlington Heights: It's about how Chet play...
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O'Donnell: Fireworking on The Fourth, an incomplete guide to the mid-year in Chicago sportsJul 03, 2019 1:00 am - AS A FOURTH OF JULY SPECIAL - to be mounted right alongside images of Samuel Adams, James Cagney and Sally Hemings - a holiday update on the state of Chicago's major tea...
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O'Donnell: Mike Spellman Scholarship Fund continues to growJun 28, 2019 1:00 am - MIKE SPELLMAN WAS one of the all-time great people associated with The Daily Herald sports department. He touched many with his journalistic vigor and his enormous capac...
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O'Donnell: Draft daze 2019 — Bulls flatline; does clock continue to tick on Stan Bowman?Jun 26, 2019 1:00 am - THEY NEED TWO MORE statues outside of the United Center. One can be called “Hope.” The other could be named “Rebuild.” In the wake of the NBA and NHL drafts last week, t...
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O'Donnell: Will Cubs' Kasper and Deshaies be together next season?Jun 21, 2019 1:00 am - THE MOST EARTHSHAKING CHANGE ever in the Cubs TV booth began as a whisper. With the Cubs' dicey Marquee Network set to launch next winter, the same kind of whistling win...
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O'Donnell: Michael Jordan to Eloy Jimenez - tales behind two mammoth arrivalsJun 19, 2019 1:00 am - THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Thursday - June 20, 1984 - Chicago awoke to the somewhat hopeful clarion, "Bulls Draft Michael Jordan." Now long forgotten was a Chicago Tribune he...
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O'Donnell: Resilient Mike Leiderman set to leave Chicago an unquestioned victorJun 14, 2019 1:00 am - MIKE LEIDERMAN IS finally leaving this town. More than four decades after a resolute young man from Great Neck, N.Y., set out to conquer Chicago sportscasting, he and wi...
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O'Donnell: Vegas Stats and Info aiming to cash in on Chicago TVJun 13, 2019 1:00 am - What happens in Vegas continues to further impact that growing media intersection of Sports and Gaming. And with segments of Illinois business and leisure anxiously awai...
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O'Donnell: American women bend into ugly during 13-0 overkill of ThailandJun 12, 2019 1:00 am - "THE UGLY AMERICAN" isn't anything new. From the USS Maine to Allen Dulles to now, it's a global virus that only gets more virulent. There was no missing the ugly when t...
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O'Donnell: New sports gaming bill means absolutely nothing to currently credible bookiesJun 07, 2019 1:00 am - So Illinois has a new sports gaming bill-plus. Translated in "Combine" - John Kass's clever description of the bipartisan sneak oilers who manipulate some affairs of the...