by Mitch Albom | Jan 14, 2007 | Detroit Free Press
When are certain people involved with this Duke lacrosse team case going to use the word they seem to be consciously avoiding?
Liar.
It’s a word for someone who tells lies. And so far, the only thing certain in this case is that the accuser has told many of them. The biggest, of course, may be that she was raped. Now she says she can’t be sure. As a result, rape charges against the three players were dropped, charges that have damaged their lives forever.
Yet no one calls her a liar.
by Mitch Albom | Jan 12, 2007 | Detroit Free Press
And what if Chris Webber became a Piston? It could happen. The Pistons would like it to happen. Hey, any team that could pick up a guy of Webber’s talent – or what’s left of it – for the price of chewing gum by NBA standards would be crazy not to.
And so the Pistons might.
And wouldn’t that be something?
by Mitch Albom | Jan 7, 2007 | Detroit Free Press
When I was a kid, I shoveled snow to make a few dollars. One time, a friend and I did a driveway for a grumpy old neighbor. We pooped out before all the snow was gone, and when we asked to be paid, the old man refused.
“You don’t finish, I don’t pay,” he said.
We skulked off. But those were the rules of the marketplace. You wanna get paid, you gotta do the job. Simple enough, right?
by Mitch Albom | Jan 2, 2007 | Detroit Free Press
PASADENA, Calif. – Here came a linebacker. Here came a nose tackle. Here came a cornerback. Here came another linebacker.
It’s supposed to be the ocean that smacks up against you in these parts, but on Monday it was the Southern Cal defense that crashed like waves against Michigan quarterback Chad Henne, over and over, chasing him, knocking him down, until you half expected some “Baywatch” lifeguard to come flying out of the stands to save him.
No such luck.
by Mitch Albom | Jan 2, 2007 | Detroit Free Press
PASADENA, Calif. – Here came a linebacker. Here came a nose tackle. Here came a cornerback. Here came another linebacker. It’s supposed to be the ocean that smacks against you in these parts, but on Monday it was the Southern California defense that crashed like waves against Michigan quarterback Chad Henne, over and over, chasing him, knocking him down, stuffing him into the turf, until you half-expected some “Baywatch” lifeguard to come flying out of the stands to save him.
As Kid Rock might say, where’s Pamela Anderson when you need her?
by Mitch Albom | Jan 1, 2007 | Detroit Free Press
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U-M If I believed Michigan was the second-best team in the nation in November, they still should be so in January. And the second-best team in the nation should be able to do whatever UCLA and Oregon State did.
Who’s your Wolverine? Mike Hart. You run, you control. You control, you limit Southern Cal’s offense and tire its defense. You do that, you win.
Who’s your Trojan? John David Booty. The quarterback will be looking to make people forget Matt Leinart, and if he wins this game, he might.
MVP: Mike Hart.
Final score: U-M, 23-13.
by Mitch Albom | Dec 31, 2006 | Detroit Free Press
One elephant, OK. Two elephants, maybe. But when the room is so full of elephants all you see are tusks, you have to speak up.I’m talking about college bowl games. They are absurd. They are overhyped and now overabundant. They are Emerald, Orange, Rose, Sugar,...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 29, 2006 | Detroit Free Press
Sports writers Mitch Albom, Nicholas J. Cotsonika and Drew Sharp take their best shots each week at predicting the NFL’s winners and losers. Their choices are made against the Glantz-Culver line. (Home teams capitalized.)THE GAMES TIME/DAY TV ALBOM COTSONIKA...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 24, 2006 | Detroit Free Press
Let’s be honest. It starts at the top. If you don’t pick good people, you don’t get good people. William Clay Ford is a fine man, but his football judgment is flawed and questionable. For more than two decades, he left one man in charge, Russ Thomas,...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 24, 2006 | Detroit Free Press
The last time Robbie Doughty saw his legs, he was riding in a Humvee on a lonely road in Iraq. There had been problems in that area before, and his unit was on the lookout for problems now. Sometimes you get lucky and can spot something suspicious. An old tire. An...
