by Mitch Albom | Jul 19, 2003 | Detroit Free Press
Don’t look now, but cable TV news just wet its pants. The story it prays for every programming day tumbled from the lips of a clean-cut young district attorney Friday afternoon, against a backdrop of the gorgeous Colorado Rockies.
“After much deliberation, charges were filed today against Kobe Bean Bryant,” said Mark Hurlbert, the DA in Eagle County, Colo. “The defendant is charged with one count of sexual assault, a class three felony. . . .
“Penalties are (if convicted) prison terms: four years to life imprisonment.”
by Mitch Albom | Jul 16, 2003 | Detroit Free Press
Aw, shucks. Now that Chris Webber has called another last-minute time-out — to cut a deal with prosecutors over felony charges — there goes my chance to be a star witness. Not that I think of myself that way.
But Webber’s lawyer did.
That lawyer, Steve Fishman, told anyone who would listen that I had important information that would prove his client’s innocence. He drew up a subpoena. He went to court to get me to testify.
He even accused me of hiding from responsibility, as if saving his client’s butt was a civic duty.
by Mitch Albom | Jul 13, 2003 | Detroit Free Press
Well, I don’t like sausages, either. But I never hit one with a baseball bat.
Then again, most of my sausages just sit on a plate, next to the hash browns. I never saw one chugging around third base, racing a bratwurst, a hot dog and a kielbasa. There’s no telling what a man might do in those circumstances.
by Mitch Albom | Jul 9, 2003 | Detroit Free Press
He took off the mask nearly 13 months ago — the same night he hoisted the Stanley Cup — and he hasn’t worn it since. The only hockey he’s played has been the kind your kids play, with roller wheels. He sleeps at home. No hotels. The...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 23, 2003 | Detroit Free Press
Doug Zyskowski finally felt the last five years were all worthwhile when a 9-year-old boy threw a tantrum and had to be dragged out of his building screaming the whole way.
“I don’t want to leave!” the kid bellowed as a frustrated mom pulled him out the door to the parking lot.
Is this a new video arcade, you think? Maybe a movie?
by Mitch Albom | Jun 20, 2003 | Detroit Free Press
From this tech columnist’s mailbag . . .
I’m a regular reader. I had to stop and drop a note. Wish I had the e-mail(s) you sent to me when the iPod first came out. You wrote a Freep column saying it was cool, but doubted if it would be a success due to the price. I sent an e-mail pointing out what I thought was wrong with your opinion, you shot back with “it won’t fly.” My, how times have changed!
Brian Bukantis
by Mitch Albom | Jun 15, 2003 | Detroit Free Press
Why, Daddy, why?”Because it’s bedtime.”Why, Daddy, Why?”Because it’s good for you.” Why, Daddy, why?”Because you have to share with your sister.”Why, Daddy, why?”Because we don’t use words like...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 8, 2003 | Detroit Free Press
Ihave been trying to come up with an allegory about fame, one which captures America’s love/hate relationship with it. Here is what I’ve come up with. Balloons.Think about it. When we are children and we get a balloon, all we want to do is make it bigger,...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 3, 2003 | Detroit Free Press
Helloooo, Larry.Sorry. I always wanted to say that.Anyhow, as your friendly, new-neighborhood columnist, I want to welcome you, Mr. Brown, to the city of brotherly sports, where we never boo Santa Claus and where our players actually — get this — show up...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 2, 2003 | Detroit Free Press
The man who got rid of Rick Carlisle woke up this morning in his pajamas and had his breakfast. His hair is white and he stands slightly stooped and he moves around as well as an 80-year-old man can. Perhaps he read the newspapers. Perhaps he didn’t bother. He...
