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Story behind Connor Onion's rise from La Grange to Fox Sports is sweet

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His name is Connor Onion, but he won’t make you cry. If you’ve heard him broadcast games for Fox Sports, you already know that. What you might not know is that he could’ve been Connor O’Onion — pronounced O’Own-yun. “It was O’Onion when my family was in Ireland,” Onion told the Sun-Times. “They came to the United States and dropped the ‘O’ to try to assimilate and naturally became farmers. “An agriculture family with the last name Onion, I was told it was good for business. And they were also growing onions.” Decades later, Onion was courtside with the man who turned the vegetable into a catchword. In 2023, Onion called a game with renowned college basketball analyst Bill Raftery — “Onions!” — and gifted him onions from his family on the air. The story is so sweet, it actually might make you cry. But enough onion jokes. The point is, Onion, a La Grange native and Lyons graduate, has made a name for himself in broadcasting. This summer, after Jason Benetti left for NBC, Fox promoted Oni