by Mitch Albom | Feb 27, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Most columnists this weekend are writing about one man, an evil, power-hungry leader who is dragging the world to the brink of war. I am not. I am choosing instead to write about another man, who’s about as far from Vladimir Putin as one can get. His name...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 14, 2022 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — He began the day as a climber, but he finished it on the mountaintop. After 12 years in the NFL with a bumbling franchise that never sniffed greatness, Matthew Stafford went west, as young men in America used to do when pursuing their dreams. And...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 13, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
My first bicycle had training wheels. My second was a Sting-Ray. Remember those? With the banana seats? My third was a Schwinn. It seems all bikes were Schwinns back then. It was light blue and had thin tires and three gears, and I was in high school and rode it to my...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 6, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press, Sports
I attended my first Winter Olympics nearly 40 years ago in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, a city about the size of Wichita. I drove a rental car and parked it outside the journalists’ village. I never used that car during the Games. There were buses to take you everywhere. Or...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 4, 2022 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
On the first night of the rest of his life, Jim Harbaugh got snowed in. So he kicked back in a Minnesota hotel room, ate a hamburger and french fries from room service, and made phone calls to the important people in his life, telling them his decision was...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 2, 2022 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
We always knew we’d be summing up Tom Brady’s career one day when he finally — finally — called it quits. On Tuesday, when the 44-year old Brady made it official, writers across the nation plopped down to put the most stellar career in NFL history into words....
by Mitch Albom | Jan 30, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
It was 80 years ago this month that 15 high-ranking Nazi officials met in a villa on the outskirts of Berlin. Among them were names like Adolph Eichmann and Heinrich Muller. They gathered over snacks and alcohol to address a single issue desired by their leader,...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 23, 2022 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Let’s say you and your ex broke up. It was amicable. You both knew it wasn’t working. Then you heard your ex had a new partner. You’re glad. Hey, if it wasn’t going to happen with you, why shouldn’t the other person find happiness? Then you learned your ex’s new...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 16, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Two years ago this weekend, a 35-year-old man traveling home from Wuhan, China, became the first American diagnosed with COVID-19. What if someone from today could have greeted him BEFORE he got on that plane? “Whoa! Hold up! You can’t board!” “What? Who are you?...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 10, 2022 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
It would be easy to get excited about the Detroit Lions beating the mighty Packers on Sunday, and maybe some of you feel that way. You must be new to Detroit. The rest of us have seen this movie too many times to be fooled by the ending. It’s like Humphrey...
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