by Mitch Albom | Jan 10, 2023 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
I’m putting the Detroit Lions in the playoffs. Bleep it. If the NFL won’t, I will. I’ve watched every minute of every Lions game this season, and while they stunk up the joint early, from November onward, they’ve been a formidable team, one that grew...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 8, 2023 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
How’s this for a New Year? Matthew Stafford is definitely not going to the playoffs, but his old team might. Or this: By the stroke of midnight, the Detroit Lions could send Aaron Rodgers home for the winter, while they continue into the postseason. Or this: A team...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 25, 2022 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
‘Twas the day before Christmas And all through the house Not a creature was stirring They were all on the couch The children were nestled In front of the screen Their parents and relatives Squeezed in between As snow filled the air And winds blew by gusting...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 12, 2022 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
On his final third down pass of the day, Jared Goff threw to a 335-pound lineman named Penei Sewell, who rumbled and stumbled for a first down that sealed the game. Sewell was one of nine receivers that Goff completed a pass to Sunday, because, quite frankly, the way...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 11, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Every Sunday at noon, when many are eating brunch or getting ready for a football game, a room full of chairs awaits in the Zekelman Holocaust Center on Orchard Lake Road. Maybe a few dozen people show up, sometimes more, sometimes less. They come to listen to an old...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 5, 2022 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Self-help experts will say how others see you is not as important as how you see yourself. They never voted in a college football poll. Michigan football finished its Big Ten campaign with a perfect record and a championship, a perfect record overall, and a No. 2...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 4, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
What’s a mountain, what’s a molehill? It’s getting pretty hard to tell in American media. On Friday, Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, promised a bombshell report concerning Twitter’s involvement in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story. And since Twitter is...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 2, 2022 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Not a good look. Admit that much. Even if you are a Maize and Blue maniac, your star football co-captain being arrested on a gun possession felony in early October, being allowed to play for Michigan football the very next day, not being charged for the next...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 27, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
A new Chick-fil-A recently went up a mile from my home. We knew it was coming — by the size of the parking lot. In case you’ve been living under a bun lately, Chick-fil-A is a fast food chain that has been around since the 1940s, but feels as if it was just discovered...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 20, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
PORT-au-PRINCE, Haiti − I am standing in the sink. Well. Where the sink is supposed to go one day. “We need to put in drainage lines,” the construction man says. “Uh-huh,” I say. I move over a few feet. Now I am standing in the refrigerator. Well. Where the...
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