by Mitch Albom | Oct 2, 2025 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
CLEVELAND – The game was like a bus station during a transit strike. Stranded riders everywhere. The Detroit Tigers left two men on base in the first inning, another in the third, a pair in the fourth, two more in the fifth, two more in the sixth, two more in...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 1, 2025 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
During the fourth inning of Game 1 of the Detroit Tigers-Cleveland Guardians wild-card series, an ESPN reporter asked Tigers manager A.J. Hinch when he might consider taking Tarik Skubal out of the game. “I hope never,” Hinch said. Why would he? The way Skubal pitched...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 30, 2025 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
I find you in the basement, hiding under a blue and orange blanket. “Is it over?” you whisper. The floor is covered with hot dog wrappers and empty Cracker Jack boxes. A Detroit Tigers cap is buried under newspapers. “How long have...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 28, 2025 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Sometimes it’s your quarterback, sometimes it’s your All-Pro running back, sometimes it’s your sack specialist. Once in a while, when you really need it, it’s your punt returner, the guy you take for granted on all those fair catches and 3-yard dives into a pile of...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 28, 2025 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
CAP-HAITIEN, HAITI – Over the years, I’ve been asked to name my favorite possession. My answer seems to surprise people. It’s not a car. It’s not a house. It’s not a piece of memorabilia, like a signed baseball bat, nor a work of art or a family heirloom. It’s...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 23, 2025 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
“They all count the same, but there are some that feel a little bit different. And this is one of those.” − Troy Aikman, on ESPN, after the Lions’ 38-30 win over Baltimore You live long enough, you get to write a sentence like this: ...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 21, 2025 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
When we were kids, we used to talk about life in “scary” places like Russia. “You can’t even say anything critical there,” we’d exclaim, “or the government will throw you in jail!” It seemed like such a frightening, faraway idea, a country where merely...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 14, 2025 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
We can be certain of only one thing in the assassination of Charlie Kirk. It won’t be the last of its kind. It won’t be the last, because it wasn’t the first. Not in this century. Not in this decade. Not even in this year. It was only three months earlier...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 14, 2025 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Jameson Williams gathered in a wobbly ball and took off downfield, eluding tacklers like a video game character in the hands of a teenager. Amon-Ra St. Brown captured a pass and straight-armed his defenders downfield, all but dragging them to the goal line. Isaac...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 8, 2025 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
There’s a reason that game tape from Week 1 in the NFL should be labeled “for educational purposes only.” It’s often ugly, frequently inaccurate, and very quickly worthy only of being thrown away. In the case of the Detroit Lions-Green Bay season opener, very far...
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