Ian O’Connor thinks Billy Donovan will head back to college to coach (Hour 3)

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In the third hour, Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes were joined by Ian O'Connor of The Athletic to discuss the NCAA Tournament, Bulls coach Billy Donovan's future and more. After that, Spiegel and Holmes discussed how it was a big weekend for Chicago baseball cast-offs.

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0:00.0	This is the official radio home of the Chicago Cubs.
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0:19.6	The score!
0:28.2	This hour is being brought to you by Bucce Bank, building business growing well since 1868.
0:31.4	Spiegel and Holmes, afternoons on the score.
0:36.8	Ian O'Connor, who's a big-time author, I mean, he doesn't even like look at us off the air.
0:55.5	He's that big. Pleased to welcome Ian O'Connor to this show. You're familiar with his work with ESPN and his books as well. With what happened over the weekend, we figured we'd call up a guy who knows a thing or two about this subject. He's none other than Ian O'Connor back here on the program. Ian O'Connor, sports writer, New York Times bestselling author. Well, he's written six books for New York Times bestseller. My friend Ian O'Connor, one of the best columnists in this country for a long time, and a world-class reporter. He goes a mile deep on this stuff. There's a lot of layers to the onion to peel back, and you do a great job Ian as always, thank you so much. I was telling the folks that Ian O'Connor and Stugats was telling the folks that it's good
1:13.7	to see that there's still a journalist out there wandering the earth in interest of finding
1:18.8	the truth, of getting to the bottom of the truth.
1:23.6	We love when we get an opportunity to talk with Ian O'Connor, because like everything that he's done in his career is right there available.
1:33.2	So if we want to talk football, we can.
1:36.0	If we want to talk baseball, we can.
1:38.3	If we want to talk college basketball, we can.
1:41.4	It's all available to us.
1:43.7	Ian, thanks so much for joining us. We appreciate it.
1:47.1	Very kind of you to open with that intro and much appreciate it. Yeah, I mean, that's quite a
1:52.8	cavalcade of radio royalty introducing you. And now you've been introduced by us a couple of
1:59.5	times. So I add that. Congrats on having us as part of your radio life.
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