by Mitch Albom | Apr 27, 2009 | Detroit Free Press
When it’s over, it’s over. This is true of relationships and clunker cars, and it is true of sports eras. This Pistons era, to be honest, was over long before Sunday’s debacle, a humiliating sweep by the surging Cavaliers. But this was the good-bye...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 27, 2009 | Detroit Free Press
When it’s over, it’s over. This is true of relationships and clunker cars, and it is true of sports eras. This Pistons era, to be honest, was over long before Sunday’s debacle, a humiliating sweep by the surging Cavaliers. But this was the good-bye...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 26, 2009 | Detroit Free Press
If you want to feel nostalgic, go back to college. Not your college. Any college. In the last nine months, I have taken four campus tours of major universities in an effort to find the best spot for one of my nephews. We traveled to Stanford, Dartmouth, Tulane and...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 26, 2009 | Detroit Free Press
NEW YORK – He’s 21. Let’s start with that. How finished a product were you at 21? Matthew Stafford is now the future of the Lions, he has been guaranteed more money than any NFL player ever, and he just reached the drinking age.That alone should tell...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 19, 2009 | Detroit Free Press
She walked onto the stage in a frumpy dress, with unwieldy hair and a stout figure, looking very much like a middle-aged Scottish woman who lives alone with her cat.Which she was.And then she began to sing. And she brought the house down.By now, you’ve probably...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 17, 2009 | Detroit Free Press
Let’s face it. The guy is a tree. I mean, who makes goalies this big? Steve Mason standing by the net looks like a giraffe standing by a Volkswagen. Honestly, when the game’s over, you expect him to carry the thing home under his arm.So how do you solve a...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 16, 2009 | Detroit Free Press
Hockey players are rarely loud. But even by the NHL’s humble/mumble standards, Pavel Datsyuk has, for years, been silent. Like most Red Wings watchers, I noticed the guy the minute he showed up. You couldn’t help it. From his first season – in...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 12, 2009 | Detroit Free Press
“This is not fun for me,” Michael Jordan told reporters.He was not being arrested. He was not being publicly humiliated. He was not being forced to fox-trot on “Dancing With the Stars.”He had been selected for the Basketball Hall of Fame. The...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 7, 2009 | Detroit Free Press
The beautiful run turned to a stumble, and like an oncoming hurricane, North Carolina caught the Spartans, blew through them, and left them flattened, so fast, so devastating, you almost expected to see ambulances at halftime. Heeled. This was not how Tom...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 6, 2009 | Detroit Free Press
It will not save us. No basketball game can do that. No matter who wins tonight, Tuesday morning the jobs still will be gone, the factories still silent and empty, the houses still for sale or abandoned altogether. The out-of-town media who see a national championship...
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