by Mitch Albom | Mar 14, 1999 | Detroit Free Press
File this under “be careful what you wish for.”
Last week, Monica Lewinsky took her act to London. She went hawking her new book, her new makeover, her new staff of publicists and managers and, she hoped, her newly swelling pocketbook, which stands to grow by millions if she is a success.
She longs for that, of course. Success. Even more, she longs to be a successful victim. It beats working for a living, which, at last glance, Monica was having a hard time doing. When the president can’t help you get a job, you know your marketability is low.
by Mitch Albom | Mar 13, 1999 | Detroit Free Press
MILWAUKEE — The ball came loose and several players reached for it, bending at the knee. Michigan State coach Tom Izzo flew off the bench, cursing through clenched teeth. He looked as if he’d just popped a blood vessel.”YOU X#@$#!! DIVE for that...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 12, 1999 | Detroit Free Press
In the lower bunk slept a 3-year-old boy. He wore pajamas. He kept his miniature cars nearby. This was his room, and he had a toy chest and a closet for his baby clothes. In the upper bed slept his roommate. A grown man.
A guy named Tom Izzo.
by Mitch Albom | Mar 11, 1999 | Detroit Free Press
Michigan State and Detroit Titans fans can rest easier. Elvis the Dog picks them to win their first-round NCAA tournament games. On Wednesday’s “Albom in the Afternoon” on WJR-AM (760), the 11-year-old pooch belonging to Mitch Albom, above, battled...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 9, 1999 | Detroit Free Press
He’ll live in baseball’s Hall of Fame, He got there blow-by-blow. Our kids will tell their kids his name, Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio.– From the songI remember asking a publishing executive once to name the biggest sports book still unwritten. This...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 5, 1999 | Detroit Free Press
There are days when I wouldn’t wish my job on anybody. Getting a bucket of ice water dumped on your head, for example. Or interviewing naked linemen in a losers’ locker room. Not fun. Trust me.
But there are some days when this job is a delight. And there are days when, no matter how delicately I craft my words, I still can’t fully convey the experience.
by Mitch Albom | Feb 1, 1999 | Detroit Free Press
MIAMI– I was awakened Super Bowl morning by a phone call from a radio program that wanted to know if I was shocked.
No. The only thing that shocks me is that a radio program, a TV network, a newspaper reporter or anyone in this tangential business of covering sports thinks they really know what “kind of guy” a player is.
by Mitch Albom | Feb 1, 1999 | Detroit Free Press
MIAMI– Last year, it was a dive to keep his team in the game. This time, as John Elway belly-flopped into the end zone, it was a dive that said, “Game’s over. Let the party begin.”You live long enough, you see almost everything. So here, under...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 30, 1999 | Detroit Free Press
In defense of my friend and colleague Curt Sylvester — who I understand is actually picking the Falcons (heh-heh) to win this Super Bowl — now hear this: That was not Curt on South Beach Thursday night, with his shirt unbuttoned to his navel, gold chains around his neck, a red rose in his thinning gray hair, doing the lambada and yelling at the bouncer, “LET ME IN! I KNOW DENNIS RODMAN! I REALLY DO!”
It just looked like Curt.
by Mitch Albom | Jan 29, 1999 | Detroit Free Press
MIAMI– “When he arrived here, we’re all like, ‘We traded for him? He’s going to be our quarterback?’ ”
— Jamal Anderson, Falcons running back
Football will forgive you many things. Fragility is not one of them.
You can have a big mouth. You can oversleep. You can have a police record. But if you break too easily, they start looking elsewhere.
