by Mitch Albom | Nov 23, 2025 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
His grandfather was a quarterback, his father was a quarterback, his two older brothers dreamed of being quarterbacks. Young Chad Carr, who liked music and puzzles and animals, seemed the only male in his family who wasn’t interested in throwing a football....
by Mitch Albom | Nov 16, 2025 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Last week, President Donald Trump threatened to sue the British Broadcasting Corporation for splicing together two of his sound bites to make it sound like one. He could have blamed the French. After all, it was a French magician, George Méliès, who,...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 10, 2025 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
The first clue was the glasses. Seeing Dan Campbell wear reading glasses is a little like seeing Superman wearing support hose. But he had them on for a reason. And when does a head coach have to read during a game? When he’s calling the plays. “I just...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 9, 2025 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
There’s a wonderful scene in the movie “American Graffiti” where a confused high school grad seeks out the radio legend Wolfman Jack to make a request. He climbs a remote broadcast tower where he finds a bearded man working by himself. “Are you the...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 3, 2025 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
J.J. McCarthy stepped to the microphone wearing a blue-collar shirt and a winner’s smile. The shirt was old; he got it playing for Michigan football under Jim Harbaugh. The smile was new. “I’m a Michigan Man, through and through,” he said of his throwback...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 2, 2025 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
I am writing this on a plane between New York City and Detroit, which is fitting, because I have lived in both places. Each of them will elect a new mayor this week, and traditionally if Americans assumed which one...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 26, 2025 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
When I was 5 years old, I wore a Halloween costume made of toilet paper. I’m not kidding. We weren’t poor. It just made sense. I wanted to be the Mummy and we only had so many rags in the house. So, my mother supplemented...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 21, 2025 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Any gambler will tell you, just because you have a huge pile of chips doesn’t mean you’re going home with money. It only counts when you cash them in. Here were the Detroit Lions on Monday, Oct. 20, before a raucous, thunderous, but nervous Ford Field...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 13, 2025 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
There are many NFL games that surprise you. This wasn’t one of them. This showdown between the Detroit Lions and the Chiefs, on a warm humid Sunday night before a raucous Arrowhead Stadium crowd, went pretty much the way anyone who didn’t have a dog in the hunt would...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 11, 2025 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
You brush the dirt from your glove and put it back on the shelf. You take your Detroit Tigers cap, wipe the sweat from the brim, then hang it on the hook. Done? Done. The season is over. And yet suddenly a moment flashes across your brain, a moment...
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