by Mitch Albom | Feb 21, 2021 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Last week, the most powerful celebrity couple in the world announced they were divorcing. For once, America didn’t quiver. Why is that? Two years ago, the news of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian calling it quits would have been water cooler topic No. 1. He’s...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 15, 2021 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Matthew Stafford goes all out. If he plays football, he plays to the dying breath. If he’s with his kids, he’s totally with his kids. If he vacations, he truly vacations. And if he talks, — really talks — he’ll talk about everything. We had one of those talks last...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 11, 2021 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
As Matthew Stafford headed into the meeting that would change his life, he texted his wife, Kelly, and wrote, “Well, here we go.” The Detroit Lions president, Rod Wood, was waiting in the room. The Lions owner, Sheila Ford Hamp, was on speaker phone....
by Mitch Albom | Feb 8, 2021 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Youth will be served — but not this year. With a 43-year-old quarterback, a 68-year-old coach, and a tight end who came out of retirement, Super Bowl 55 could have been brought to you by AARP. And that’s the winning team. You read that right. The Tampa Bay...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 7, 2021 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
It was one year ago today that a man named Li Wenliang died. Maybe you remember him. Maybe you don’t. But today we all should. Because he wasn’t the first person in China to die of COVID-19, but he was possibly the first to try and warn people about it. And he...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 1, 2021 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Everybody’s motivated. That’s what makes this Matthew Stafford-Jared Goff deal a good one. Sometimes when a star player seeks a trade, it begins with disgruntlement and ends in disgruntlement, players unhappy, fans unhappy, front office ducking. Not so this...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 31, 2021 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Here is the history of American desire. First we wanted to be free. Then we wanted to be rich. Then we wanted to be famous. And now we want power. All of that was on display in last week’s GameStop stock market drama. The internet gang of traders who drove the price...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 24, 2021 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
I knew Larry King. Not well, but I knew him. I’d been on his show. He’d been on mine. I first encountered him at an awards ceremony, where, sitting with my wife in the middle of the theater, I looked up to see him ushered to the row in front of us. I felt somewhat...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 24, 2021 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Matthew Stafford is the best player the Detroit Lions have. And the most dedicated. So when your best and most dedicated player comes to and you and suggests maybe parting company would be the best thing, you ought to be worried about your team. So much for...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 21, 2021 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
But when you hire men who are down the depth chart on their current teams, men who have never done the job you’re hiring them to do on a permanent basis, men who few other teams in the NFL were courting, you can’t expect fans to jump up and down. Simply put, this is...
