by Mitch Albom | Jan 8, 2024 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
The last four plays of the Detroit Lions’ regular season were four straight passes to receiver Josh Reynolds. In most ways, since the game was already won, the plays were insignificant. Except that Reynolds needed 36 yards on the day to earn a chunky incentive...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 7, 2024 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
It’s not too late for a New Year’s resolution, is it? I am making one that you may want to adopt. This year, I will not — NOT — search the internet for medical information. I will no longer visit Dr. Google. I will break up with WebMD. I will cancel all appointments...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 25, 2023 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
How’s this for a Christmas morning stocking stuffer? The Detroit Lions will win their division. The Lions will host a playoff game. Manna will fall from heaven. OK, maybe not the last one. But the occasion calls for hyperbole, right? In a game that went...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 17, 2023 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Amon-Ra St. Brown darted across the middle, split the defenders, took a perfect pass from Jared Goff and zoomed to the end zone, flipping over an opposing player and landing with a boink, as if putting the dot on an “i.” An “i” as in “winning again.”...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 17, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the nation America was fighting And filled with frustration Left against right, You versus me Old against young Fox versus MSNBC Gas! No, electric! Open borders! No, closed! Woke! No, tradition! Donald! No, Joe!...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 10, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
You need a good vocabulary to get into college, and an even better vocabulary to run one. So how did college presidents last week suddenly have so much trouble saying a single word? During a hearing on antisemitism, in front of Congress and TV cameras, the presidents...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 3, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
In their hysterical comedy routine from many years ago, Carl Reiner asks Mel Brooks — who is playing the part of a 2,000-year-old man — the secret to his long life. “Will to live,” Brooks answers. “Ah, yes,” Reiner replies. “The will to live —” “Not THE will to live,”...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 26, 2023 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Thrillers aren’t thrillers until the hero gets in trouble. And everything that happened until the third quarter in the Big House thriller Saturday, when Zak Zinter went down with a knee injury so gruesome Fox wouldn’t show it on TV, was just buildup. After...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 12, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press, News
Mitch Albom’s new novel, “The Little Liar” is inspired by true events. It begins with an 11-year-old boy named Nico Krispis who has never told a lie in his life. When the Nazis invade his city, they take him from his family and trick him into telling the biggest...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 12, 2023 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — They announced the attendance for Saturday’s game as 110,856, the second largest crowd in the history of Beaver Stadium. No surprise. Everyone wants to see an execution. And that’s what critics were hoping for, wasn’t it? Jim Harbaugh,...
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