by Mitch Albom | Dec 8, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment
DUBLIN, IRELAND — I am writing this from a Dublin hotel room. The weather is dark and dreary, thick clouds with a misty rain. It shouldn’t surprise me. Margaret Daly is no longer here to brighten the Irish sky. I’ve been coming to Ireland to promote my books since the...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 1, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
This is the hardest column to read if you are a Michigan football fan, and the hardest to write if you like to be the bearer of good news. But we all saw it. And to deny it is folly. The Buckeyes are better. Say it and get it over with. Say it and spit...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 24, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment
“I’d like to welcome everyone to our Thanksgiving meal. We’re so glad you all flew in from around the country. Uncle Jack. Aunt Sally. Cousin Duane. Our daughter Polly and her Russian husband, Vlad, and their new baby, Bennie. Welcome, one and all.” “Thanks,...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 17, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Just before the final snap of what he called “the state championship,” Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh pulled aside his quarterback, Shea Patterson, and said, “This year, after you kneel down, keep the ball. Don’t throw it up in the air.” “I’ve got...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 12, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
He fell off the map and resurfaced in an obituary. The short, sad saga of Charles Rogers reached its final frame Monday, when news broke that he had died at 38, reportedly due to cancer and liver issues. Few fans who once cheered him had any idea where he was....
by Mitch Albom | Nov 3, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, News, Sunday Comment
Published today in the Detroit Free Press! In 2013, author and Free Press columnist Mitch Albom admitted a young girl named Chika Jeune into the orphanage he operates in Port Au Prince, Haiti. Little Chika was born three days before the massive earthquake of...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 3, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports, Sunday Comment
There were two days in Juwan Howard’s life that he chose Michigan. Both ended in tears. The first was almost exactly 29 years ago, when he rose and got dressed in his grandmother’s place on the south side of Chicago. She told him to wear something nice,...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 28, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
It’s a play you draw up in the dirt as kids. You go out, I’ll throw it to you, you throw it back, and I’ll throw it to someone else. Over the years it has acquired various names, the most popular being the flea flicker, coined by a high school coach a...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 27, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment
This happened every Halloween when I was a kid. The doorbell would ring, usually at night, when my siblings and I were already home from our candy walks. We’d open the door, all excited, and some teenager would be standing on the porch in jeans and a sweatshirt....
by Mitch Albom | Oct 21, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Dalvin Cook, who runs like a truck without brakes, bounced off of one Lion, ducked between two others and scooted into the end zone for the 41st point of the Minnesota Vikings’ afternoon. Detroit fans headed for the exit. Enough. A day that began with deafening...
