by Mitch Albom | Apr 8, 2007 | Detroit Free Press
The word was “hoodlum” or, depending on when you grew up, “mobster” or “gangster” or “crook.” It was uttered in anger by your mother (“Don’t talk like a gangster”) or your father (“Do that again...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 4, 2007 | Detroit Free Press
Most of us get into this business because of someone else. We interview at a newspaper with an older, wiser employee, someone who seems honest, sincere, fair, a little sloppy maybe, with a temper, but trustworthy, and a bit of a rascal. We say yes. We’re taken...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 3, 2007 | Detroit Free Press
It was lunchtime in Detroit when the fireworks ignited. They shot into the air and, in their explosive shower, against a cloudless April sky, a flag was raised at Comerica Park. It rose slowly through the smoke like some Iwo Jima moment, rose above the centerfield...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 1, 2007 | Detroit Free Press
The place was Santiago, Chile, the hour was 10 a.m., and the sun already was burning high over the city skyline. I had asked for a car and a driver who spoke English in a place where I had never been and did not know the language.”Good morning, sir,” the...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 1, 2007 | Detroit Free Press
And here you are again, like a Weight Watcher salivating at chocolate, like an ex-smoker unwrapping a brand new pack. “Everyone got their tickets?” you ask your family. “Oh. And the glove! Did we pack the glove? We gotta have the glove in case...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 4, 2007 | Detroit Free Press
There is a dog show in Detroit this weekend, and 60,000 people are expected to attend, and 3,000 dogs, and 163 breeds, and we won’t even count the plastic bags and scoopers.And at some point during the show, as thousands of spectators cheer, the prized pooches...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 28, 2007 | Detroit Free Press
Everyone casts a shadow. Some are bigger than others. Todd Bertuzzi, like it or not, throws one thick and dark as the frontiersman beard he once sported, back in the days when his roughhouse tactics and ready fists were admired, even envied.You remember those days,...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 26, 2007 | Detroit Free Press
Ears don’t lie. Before his name was even announced Sunday, Ben Wallace was booed. The first time he touched the ball? Booed. His first dribble? Booed. His first miss? Cheered. His first and second clanking free throws? Cheered and cheered again.If Wallace was...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 25, 2007 | Detroit Free Press
I don’t really care where Anna Nicole Smith is buried or who gets her money, and I don’t think it matters which deadbeat gold digger is the father of her baby, because, no matter what, that poor kid will need years of therapy.But I do want to say something...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 18, 2007 | Detroit Free Press
This may come as news to Tim Hardaway, but just because a man is gay doesn’t mean he wants to jump you.On a Miami radio station last week, Hardaway said: “I hate gay people. … I don’t like to be around gay people. I’m...
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