by Mitch Albom | Nov 5, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sports |
When you’re facing a good quarterback, the one thing you can’t do is make it easy for him. Russell Wilson is good. And the Detroit Lions made it easy. That was the story Sunday afternoon in a 28-14 lossthat was more one-sided than the score suggests. Yes, the Lions...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 4, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
This weekend, American Jews gathered in synagogues for Sabbath services, more fearful than they’d been the weekend before. They wondered if some murderous madman might now enter their sanctuaries. For them, it was hard to imagine an issue more critical. But elsewhere...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 29, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sports |
When you’re facing a good quarterback, the one thing you can’t do is make it easy for him. Russell Wilson is good. And the Detroit Lions made it easy. That was the story Sunday afternoon in a 28-14 lossthat was more one-sided than the score suggests. Yes, the Lions...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 28, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sports |
Four cups of coffee. A No-Doz. Go out in the cold air and slap your face five times. You might think I’m talking about how truck drivers get through a run. Or how college students cram to get a major paper done by morning. I wish. I’m talking about how you get through...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 28, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
The word sanctuary conjures a place of safety. A place where you will not be harmed. In religious terms, it is a place on Earth where you are closest to God. It was none of that Saturday morning. Not in Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue, which reportedly housed a...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 21, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sports |
EAST LANSING — The game hadn’t even started, and Devin Bush Jr. was trying to dig up the Spartan logo with his cleats. The Michigan linebacker hoofed at the midfield grass so aggressively, I thought he was going to get down on all fours and charge at a green cape. It...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 14, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
Last time I checked, the only squirrel that could fly on his own was in “Rocky and Bullwinkle.” Others would presumably need an airplane. But in today’s world, that’s not a problem. You never know what furry creature might be scurrying up the aisles. And...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 8, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sports |
Romeo Okwara was still sweating in the locker room, even after he’d showered and dressed. The Detroit Lions defensive end had spent the whole game running after Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers. Someone asked him if, when he finally sacked Rodgers, he allowed himself a...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 7, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
It was the early 1980s, just after Dave Anderson won a Pulitzer Prize for his sports writing in the New York Times. Dave, in his early 50s, was a major voice at the most important newspaper in the city. And I was a struggling young musician, needing money. I found...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 30, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
Do you remember “Animal House?” At the end of that movie, about a wild fraternity in the 1960s, the frat brothers are frozen, one by one, above a sentence that shows where each ends up. The last character, everybody’s favorite, is John Belushi’s perpetually...
