by Mitch Albom | May 16, 2004 | Detroit Free Press
How outraged should an outraged American be?
This became a question last week thanks to Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe. When he took the microphone at the hearings on Abu Ghraib prison, he did not begin with a question for the military man seated at the table — which is what he was there to do.
Instead, like too many senators — Democrat and Republican — he began with a speech.
And in his speech, he said he was “more outraged by the outrage” than by the treatment depicted in photographs from Abu Ghraib.
by Mitch Albom | May 15, 2004 | Detroit Free Press
He should have been the hero. Chauncey Billups should be doing interviews about the miracle shot, how he knew all along that it was going in, how he practiced that shot when he was a kid, how he dreamed it just the way it happened in the final second of regulation...
by Mitch Albom | May 14, 2004 | Detroit Free Press
Rasheed Wallace took a big gulp of Gatorade as reporters ran to encircle him after practice. Someone began by asking, “How you feeling, chief?”Rasheed swallowed and grinned.”I guess that’s the million-dollar question, huh?”Actually, if...
by Mitch Albom | May 12, 2004 | Detroit Free Press
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Before anyone jumps off a bridge — and let’s face it, the water is pretty filled with Red Wings fans these days — remember there is a reason these are seven-game series, and all that has really happened is that the...
by Mitch Albom | May 9, 2004 | Detroit Free Press
I’m going to tell a story; see if you can finish it before I do.A kid goes to school. A bully picks on him. The bully hits him. The kid comes home crying. His father pulls him close and says, “Son, I’m gonna teach you something. If someone hits you ....
by Mitch Albom | May 8, 2004 | Detroit Free Press
In case you didn’t recognize this game in the first half, the Pistons lost four of them last May. Four in a row. To this same team. The same way. With New Jersey racing downcourt and stuffing it in their face. With a search party out for a reliable Detroit...
by Mitch Albom | May 7, 2004 | Detroit Free Press
Tayshaun Prince got married. Bought a house. Had a baby. Chauncey Billups opened a mortgage company, made a fortune. Ben Wallace, bored with the same two haircuts, tried shaving his head, didn’t like it and let it all grow back. It’s an Afro again.At least...
by Mitch Albom | May 5, 2004 | Detroit Free Press
CALGARY, Alberta — What is it about hockey losses that melts the hardened heart? Here was Brendan Shanahan, head slumped, sitting in a visitors’ dressing room that looked as if a hurricane had just blown through it, gloves and socks and tape strewn across the floor. It was noticeably devoid of players, most of them preferring not to discuss what had just happened out there on the Saddledome ice, a stunning 1-0 overtime loss that ended the Red Wings’ top-ranked season and in all likelihood, their roster as we know it.
by Mitch Albom | May 4, 2004 | Detroit Free Press
CALGARY, Alberta — The red light came on, and for Detroit, the rest of the lights went out. The Flames had scored, one goal, after 79 minutes of choking, desperate, zero sum hockey, and the series, the season, and a slice of Detroit history was finished.Paradise...
by Mitch Albom | May 3, 2004 | Detroit Free Press
It’s cold, it’s hard, it’s dangerous and it flies. And when a puck hits an unprotected hockey player, it takes no prisoners, it simply destroys, a tooth, a jaw, a cheekbone, a piece of the skull.An eye.Brendan Shanahan saw the puck that hit his...
