by Mitch Albom | Sep 11, 2009 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
And he seems like such a nice guy.Does he know what he’s getting into? Does he know the pirate’s plank he is walking – sharks below, a sword blade behind, a bunch of laughing, drunken men pointing from above?Before we kick a single ball in this 2009...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 30, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
What shocked you most about Jaycee Lee Dugard’s story? Was it the fact that she was abducted in plain sight, walking to a bus stop when she was 11 years old? Or the fact that she was still alive when discovered last week, 18 years later? Was it the fact that for...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 23, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Trisha Babcock was twice the age of the person who allegedly shot and killed her.And she was only 24.Which makes the gunman only 12.So here comes another hand-wringing debate over whether children are still children when they kill like adults.Try this sentence on for...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 9, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
I have no illusions about protesters at the recent town hall meetings on health care. Some are fueled by angry conservative groups. Some are hopped up on radio hosts’ rants and ravings. Some are Barack Obama haters. Some use one piece of wrong information to...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 2, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Two years ago, members of the Pearl High School cheerleading squad in Pearl, Miss., allegedly were told by their coach to give her their Facebook passwords.They did. And then most of them, reportedly, erased their accounts.But at least one girl did not. And as a...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 26, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
In explaining why it was OK to sock a new 5.4% tax on the highest earners in this country – to pay for health care reform – President Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said this: “The president believes that the richest 1% of this country...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 21, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Frank McCourt played the harmonica. I don’t know where or how he learned – maybe as a scrawny kid running the streets of Limerick, Ireland – but he played the thing, or so he said, in stating his credentials to join a novelty band of writers of which...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 19, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
The counselors woke us from our bunks and led us down the hill to the mess hall. It wasn’t that late, maybe 10 at night, but we were kids and they sacked you in pretty early back in 1969.We yawned as we took our places around the dining tables. Someone handed...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 12, 2009 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
NEWS ITEM: A young Spanish man was gored to death last week in the traditional running of the bulls in Pamplona. I ran with the bulls once. Just over 20 years ago. I was younger and faster back then. I was also drunk. Everyone was. What most people don’t realize...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 1, 2009 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Things change. Sometimes this is true in a slow way and sometimes true in a fast way, and right now in Pistons Land it’s true in an avalanche way, and Michael Curry just got buried underneath it.”The fact is, we’re going through this transition right...
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