by Mitch Albom | Apr 9, 2010 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
We come to see how the new ones look. Is he taller than you thought? How defined are his arms? Is he chunkier than he seems on TV? Does that face look funny beneath a Tigers cap?More and more in baseball, the annual rite of Opening Day feels like New Car Day at the...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 6, 2010 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
The word "sex" was never uttered. Neither were the words "affair,""cheating" nor even "women." For a news conference in which the world’s most famous athlete was to address his dirty demons, it was remarkably sanitized....
by Mitch Albom | Apr 4, 2010 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
In my Detroit, a decade from now, there are no blocks with one burned-out house. Those eyesores have been leveled. Grass and trees have taken their place.In my Detroit, people leave work and walk home, because they live in the city, they don’t just enter and...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 4, 2010 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
INDIANAPOLIS – Draymond Green had the ball, the game, the whole thing in his hands. He also had Gordon Hayward defending him. He leaned in, went up and in this collision was the story of the night. Butler’s defense against Michigan State’s offense....
by Mitch Albom | Apr 2, 2010 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
A scene from Durrell Summers’ life:Last year. Final Four. Michigan State taking on powerhouse Connecticut. Under 6 minutes left. Summers gets the ball on a fast break and cuts down the middle, rises like a plane and thunder-slams over Stanley Robinson in a dunk...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 1, 2010 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
The winds howled. The sky was purple-black. A young Tom Izzo pulled his car off the highway, got out and did what they had told him to do: He crawled under the car for safety. There, beneath the chassis, pressed against the earth, he prayed, “Dear Lord,...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 1, 2010 | Detroit Free Press
The winds howled. The sky was purple-black. A young Tom Izzo pulled his car off the highway, got out and did what they had told him to do: He crawled under the car for safety. There, beneath the chassis, pressed against the earth, he prayed, “Dear Lord,...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 28, 2010 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
“Baby killer.”If there were two words Bart Stupak never expected to hear, those were the two. Shouted at him. In front of Congress. In front of the world. “Baby killer.”Bart Stupak had been an Eagle Scout from the Upper Peninsula, a law school...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 26, 2010 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
He gets the news before everybody. He sees it. He touches it. For a fleeting moment, he is ahead of the entire sports world. The information in his hands, literally, could change the game, heck, even change the course of the NCAA tournament. You’d think he might...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 21, 2010 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
First, there were hammers banging. Then paint brushes. Then carpet. Soon, we had a new room above the garage.And my grandmother moved in.It was the late 1960s, I was 10 years old, and I had no idea that we were going against the grain, that the trend back then was for...
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