by Mitch Albom | Oct 2, 2009 | Detroit Free Press
In the fifth inning, with no outs, a victory still thinkable and Magglio Ordoñez on first base, Miguel Cabrera swung, grounded to short and was thrown out for a double play. He stood there, staring, hands on his hips, as if to say, “What do we have to do to get...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 28, 2009 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
You should have seen it. After 644 losing days, 21 losing months, 18 losing Sundays, one losing Thursday, four starting quarterbacks, one fired coach, one tar-and-feathered team president and a million bad jokes about Detroit futility – after all that, the gun...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 27, 2009 | Parade Magazine
Rain falls on the church roof. It pours through a gaping hole and splashes onto the pews. Against the plop, plop, plop of gathering water, a pastor urges nearly 100 weary men to believe in the future. They wear old jackets or sweatshirts. They line up for chili and...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 27, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
The video featured two attractive women. It was shot by an onlooker. It hit YouTube by storm. You’re no doubt thinking "sex," but let me assure you the women kept their clothes on. Unfortunately, that was the only ladylike thing about them. On the...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 22, 2009 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
By the end, he was just another Detroit quarterback being chased by Minnesota linemen, and there have been so many of those they start to blend together. The stands were emptying. Boos were heard. When the gun sounded, Matthew Stafford walked off the field alone,...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 20, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free Press, Sports
It was a late summer night, and in downtown Detroit the Tigers were playing. Miles away, sitting in his chair, Ernie Harwell wanted some ice cream.”How about you?” he asked me. I said sure, and he turned to his beautiful wife of 68 years and said,...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 18, 2009 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
I say hello. He says, "How you doin’?" I say that was some weekend. He says, "Yeah, it was crazy." This is how it goes, the older talking to the younger. The old stand in awe of the pressure and noise – the young shrug and say, "It...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 18, 2009 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
I say hello. He says, "How you doin’?" I say that was some weekend. He says, "Yeah, it was crazy." This is how it goes, the older talking to the younger. The old stand in awe of the pressure and noise – the young shrug and say, "It...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 14, 2009 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
NEW ORLEANS – It was a new season and a new roster and a new coach and a new start, but for Lions fans, it was a new quarterback. Let’s face it, that’s what they wanted to see. We get them a lot in Detroit, but there is still something about the...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 13, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
It was just two words.”You lie!”Two words. Not even curse words. But the where and the when made those two words significant.”You lie!” It was screamed from the floor of Congress, by an elected official of the state of South Carolina, and aimed...
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