What if my Tuesdays with Morrie happened during COVID-19?
Morrie Schwartz died 25 years ago this month, ending Mitch Albom’s weekly Tuesday visits. Would those visits have happened in the age of COVID-19
Three games in, Michigan football’s horse has yet to leave the post
There’s an old song that describes the blahs as feeling “like a horse that never left the post.” So it goes for Michigan football in 2020. Fans keep waiting for the thoroughbred to run. Meanwhile, in most significant ways, this year’s race is already over....
Election will be meaningless if we don’t change our ways
My editors asked if I planned to write about the election this Sunday and I said yes. Perhaps they hoped I would pen something about the need to vote, a topic I’ve tackled before. But that seems unnecessary. Look at how many people have already voted. We all know the...
It took Michigan State’s Mel Tucker all of one game to revel in rivalry glory
Now that’s how you enter a rivalry. Ride into the other guy’s town, kick the doors in, and yell, “Howdy!” New coach Mel Tucker had exactly one performance under his belt at Michigan State, a forgettable seven-turnover loss to lowly Rutgers, before...
I’m convinced Mel Tucker is right man for Michigan State football
Mel Tucker used to drive Nick Saban around. This was 23 years ago, when Saban was the head football coach at Michigan State and Tucker was a first-year graduate assistant. He would marvel at how Saban, sitting next to him, could wedge a briefcase beneath his...
In a nasty nation, there’s an oasis of nice in one Michigan city
To the outside world, it looks like Michigan had a bad week. When 13 of our fellow Americans are arrested for plotting to kidnap our governor, well, that’s not an image we want exported to the rest of the world. The fact that some of those men were...
Detroit Lions, now 1-3, have no defense for their defense
It’s probably a good thing the Lions didn’t have fans inside Ford Field on Sunday. The fewer witnesses, the better. This was sad, lifeless, sometimes cringeworthy defensive football, bad tackling, no tackling, low resistance, no resistance. Please don’t...
The power that governs us has been punctured. What we do next will define us.
Now everyone knows someone who has coronavirus. When President Trump sent a simple tweet at 1 a.m. Friday morning — “Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19” — it was akin to trumpets bringing down the walls of Jericho. There was no more denying the enemy...
Breaking bread with police to break down barriers
On Wednesday, at the same time a Kentucky attorney general was announcing findings in the Breonna Taylor case, a small group of men and women gathered on Detroit’s east side to eat some barbecue they had cooked outside together. And as cities across America saw...The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
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