by Mitch Albom | Mar 24, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
This is a story about the streets of Detroit, and their empty, abandoned, overgrown lots, and by this point you’re thinking crime, violence, heartbreak. And I’m thinking … honey. It’s the first week of spring, so why not, instead of the same old negative talk, focus...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 18, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
There’s a famous scene in “Casablanca” where the corrupt police chief played by Claude Rains shuts down Humphrey Bogart’s casino. “I’m shocked — shocked — to find that gambling is going on in here!” Rains deadpans. A croupier then hands him a wad of cash. “Your...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 12, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports |
Send in the beans. Start changing your accent. It’s Faaahd Field. It’s the Blue and Silvah. The Detroit Lions hit free agency Monday like a battering ram hits a piñata, and what fell loose were many intriguing pieces, most of them with one phrase in common: “Former...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 5, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports |
At the end of the season, if you’re the best player in the NHL, the trophy they give you is named after Ted Lindsay. That’s all you really need to know. He won four Stanley Cups and once led the league in scoring, was a Red Wings general manager and briefly their...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 3, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
In 1941, the year America entered World War II, Ernie and Lulu Harwell entered the world of matrimony. Thankfully, the latter engagement far outlasted the former. But then, the latter was based on love, real, unbreakable love, the love borne of respect and honor and...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 25, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports |
All game long, the ball was in his hands, a Greenergizer Bunny in a sea of yellow jerseys. Dribbling, driving, dishing, laying it in. He never came out. Never took a breather. Finally, after all that action forged a sizable lead, Michigan had no choice but to foul...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 24, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
Tonight is the Academy Awards, so perhaps it’s fitting that last week’s biggest story was an actor’s excellent performance — in an accused hoax. Jussie Smollett from the TV show “Empire,” a name relatively few Americans knew last month and a great number know now (and...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 17, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
You’re in the shower. The phone rings. Your husband is out of town and you’ve been waiting for his call. You push through the curtain, your hair full of shampoo, you grab the phone and blurt out, “Hello?” “Hello,” a voice answers, “this is Cindy with card...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 4, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports |
ATLANTA — They were coming, the Rams, like kids running down a hill, giddy with their speed, going faster in the fourth quarter than they had all night. Jared Goff, who’d been terribly out of sync, was momentarily sharp, Clark Kent in a phone booth, and he moved his...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 3, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports |
Don’t ask us. That’s my stock answer to The Tom Brady Question. True, he played college ball right down the road at Michigan. And true, when someone becomes the greatest NFL quarterback of all time — and if Brady leads the New England Patriots to a sixth Super Bowl...
