by Mitch Albom | Jun 20, 2010 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Kobe Bryant finally answered the questions.1) Who would you rather have – him or LeBron James? 2) If you reached a Game 7, which guy would get you home?3) If you needed one shot to win it all, which guy would you have take it?And the answer is Â
Neither.You...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 17, 2010 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Tom Izzo, his athletic director and his school president all said they wanted to build a world-class program at Michigan State. That’s good. They can start by not fretting so much over the media.In an otherwise warm affirmation of Midwestern values Tuesday...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 16, 2010 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
And so he stays. The most hotly debated topic in basketball ends with Tom Izzo going nowhere. He is “here for life” he now declares.But he is not the same.What Izzo went through the past 10 days will shadow him for months if not years. It was nothing less...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 13, 2010 | Detroit Free Press
Most parents worry if teenagers are an hour late. Just imagine if they were lost at sea.For several tense hours Thursday, that was the case for a 16-year-old Californian named Abby Sunderland. She was in stormy waters on a yacht somewhere in the Indian Ocean, about...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 11, 2010 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
When I was a kid – and dinosaurs roamed the earth – your team being “in a conference” meant you could drive to the away games. Our high school was in a conference. No rival was more than 20 minutes by car. My college was in a conference; no...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 6, 2010 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
I sit. I sigh. I crane my neck and scan the windshield. All I see is a horizon full of stuck cars and the most hated color of summer.Orange. As in barrels.Every year it is the same thing. The weather gets warm. We finally leave our driveways without a snowplow. We...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 6, 2010 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
I once was asked if I’d be interested in writing a movie about John Wooden. I flew to L.A., had a few meetings, but I already knew my answer. Of course. Who wouldn’t want to be connected -in any way – to Wooden’s story? The greatest coach ever?...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 6, 2010 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Years ago, a sportswriter wrote, “The imperfect man pitched the perfect game.”Today, it would read, “The imperfect ump blew the perfect game.”And it never should have happened. Armando Galarraga should have his perfect game today. Jim Joyce,...
by Mitch Albom | May 30, 2010 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Henry David Thoreau famously said that if a government imprisons people unjustly, the place for a just man is in prison.So you figure if a government imprisons people justly, the place for an unjust man is also in prison.Either way, it’s hard to argue that Kwame...
by Mitch Albom | May 23, 2010 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
We still don’t know what happened the night 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones was shot, but if a certain TV show had its way, 2 million people might have witnessed the whole thing.That’s the audience for a hot episode of “The First 48,” a reality...
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