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Detroit Lions start with a thud, end with a bang, still lose season opener

Detroit Lions start with a thud, end with a bang, still lose season opener

by Mitch Albom | Sep 13, 2021 | Detroit Free Press, Sports

And they’re off! And they’re… off. The work in progress that is the new Detroit Lions was, well, a work in progress in Sunday’s opener, falling into a four-touchdown hole, whiffing frequently on offense and defense, bobbling passes, overthrowing receivers, taking...
Detroit Lions start with a thud, end with a bang, still lose season opener

Chris Webber finally gets the gold star, but remains a mercurial figure

by Mitch Albom | Sep 10, 2021 | Detroit Free Press, Sports

The Basketball Hall of Fame waited eight years to admit Chris Webber. Can you blame them? Even those who have watched him forever aren’t sure what to make of him. Here is a 15-year NBA veteran who is still best known as a college player, an athlete with...
Detroit Lions start with a thud, end with a bang, still lose season opener

As death tightens around us, don’t hesitate to tell loved one how you feel

by Mitch Albom | Aug 29, 2021 | Comment, Detroit Free Press

As he lay dying, slowly, from ALS, I once asked my old college professor, Morrie Schwartz, what he thought about people wanting to leave the world with famous last words. “I think,” he said, his voice raspy and weak, “you need really good timing.” He was right. None...
Detroit Lions start with a thud, end with a bang, still lose season opener

Girls with guitars silenced in Afghanistan; their teacher can’t help them

by Mitch Albom | Aug 22, 2021 | Comment, Detroit Free Press

Many American men have entered Afghanistan with a weapon. Lanny Cordola entered with a guitar. A self-described “studio guy,” Lanny had several of his own bands and also played with Slash, Ransom, the Beach Boys and even Nancy Sinatra, Cordola eventually grew...
Detroit Lions start with a thud, end with a bang, still lose season opener

Young Haitians get a chance to change their disaster-ravaged world with college degrees

by Mitch Albom | Aug 15, 2021 | Comment, Detroit Free Press

It began on the airplane. The two young men stared out the windows as the island slowly disappeared from view. Neither one had ever left Haiti. Neither had ever slept a night away from home. One of the them, a slender, serious soul named Jhonas, had spent years in a...
Detroit Lions start with a thud, end with a bang, still lose season opener

Calvin Johnson’s Hall of Fame shine shouldn’t be clouded by Detroit Lions spat

by Mitch Albom | Aug 8, 2021 | Detroit Free Press, Sports

Calvin Johnson heads into the sunset like other great players who toiled for the Detroit Lions. Unsatisfied. On the morning of his induction to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, he still hasn’t committed to even mentioning the team he played for his entire...
Detroit Lions start with a thud, end with a bang, still lose season opener

Only Simone Biles knows what made her step aside at Tokyo Olympics

by Mitch Albom | Jul 29, 2021 | Comment, Detroit Free Press

I knew Simone Biles was done when she said, “There’s more to life than gymnastics.” That is a true sentence. Maybe, under certain circumstances, a noble one. But it’s not something an athlete says in the middle of a competition — in the middle of the Olympic...
Detroit Lions start with a thud, end with a bang, still lose season opener

COVID-19 vaccination hesitation won’t be fixed with anger or insults

by Mitch Albom | Jul 25, 2021 | Comment, Detroit Free Press

You’re in line at the bank. The person ahead of you is talking to the cashier. Minutes pass. “What’s taking so long?” you wonder. You’re in traffic. You switch to the left lane. The person in front of you is going under the speed limit. “Why so slow?” you grouse....
Detroit Lions start with a thud, end with a bang, still lose season opener

There’s nothing wrong with the Olympics, but hosting them now is a bad idea

by Mitch Albom | Jul 23, 2021 | Detroit Free Press, Sports

The first Olympic Games I covered were in an alpine village in a country that no longer exists. Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, was a cheery place in 1984, despite limited resources, a town where you drank with the locals late at night and where, during the opening...
Detroit Lions start with a thud, end with a bang, still lose season opener

The new Space Race: Boldly going where no ego has gone before

by Mitch Albom | Jul 18, 2021 | Comment, Detroit Free Press

You can walk past an empty building every single day. Then one day you see a line of people outside, and even though nothing has changed on the inside, you stop and say, “Hmm, I wonder what’s going on in there?” That’s what’s happening now with space....
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