by Mitch Albom | Oct 11, 1992 | Detroit Free Press
News Item:
The first of several presidential debates will be tonight in St. Louis. George Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot are promising to concentrate on the issues.
. . .
MODERATOR: Welcome to the presidential debates. Gentlemen, please introduce yourselves.
CLINTON: Hello, George.
BUSH: Hello, Comrade.
PEROT: Be nice, boys, or I’ll fire ya.
MODERATOR: Ahem. Now then. Let’s begin with a question on the economy. Gentlemen, what is wrong with the U.S. economy and what will you do about it if elected president?
by Mitch Albom | Oct 10, 1992 | Detroit Free Press
* NY GIANTS 20, PHOENIX 17: So Lawrence Taylor says he’ll retire at the end of the season? The way the Giants were playing, I thought he retired last year.
* MIAMI 23, ATLANTA 13: The only undefeated team in the AFC against the only team that has to wonder if its kick returner will get a hit in the baseball playoffs on Sunday.
by Mitch Albom | Oct 5, 1992 | Detroit Free Press
So when does hockey season start?
If that was the last best playoff chance for our football team — and some people think it was — we might as well get real, grab our coats, shut the photo album. Not that Sunday afternoon’s finish was much to remember: Rodney Peete, chased like a criminal, sacked like potatoes. Willie Green, diving in the turf for a ball that was 10 feet away. The crowd leaving, booing, as Scott Conover, an offensive lineman, is called for yet another Detroit false start . . .
False start?
by Mitch Albom | Oct 5, 1992 | Detroit Free Press
So when does hockey season start?If that was the last best playoff chance for our football team — and some people think it was — we might as well get real, grab our coats, shut the photo album. Not that Sunday afternoon’s finish was much to remember:...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 4, 1992 | Detroit Free Press
If you wanted help with your love life, would you ask an ex-homeless person who had once been a drug user and, in between, spent time in transcendental meditation, celibacy, and a marriage that collapsed after two years?
Of course you would. At least, many of us are. Check out the book sales for
“Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus.” People are gobbling it up in a frenzied rush, hoping to solve their relationship woes.
This, by the way, is a very American thing to do. When in doubt, buy a book.
by Mitch Albom | Oct 4, 1992 | Detroit Free Press
I find them in the basement, right were I left them, on a dusty shelf, squeezed together, like cold cuts in a sandwich. Janis Joplin. The Beach Boys. The King and I. Did I always have this many?
“Long time, no see,” I say.
My albums say nothing.
Are they mad? It has been a while. Ever since that birthday, seven years ago, when the CD player arrived. It was black and shiny, with cool new gadgets and a little drawer that opened and closed.
by Mitch Albom | Oct 3, 1992 | Detroit Free Press
* DETROIT 20, NEW ORLEANS 17: Gotta have it. Gotta win it. And I believe they will. Does that make me . . . naive?* MINNESOTA 30, CHICAGO 28: The good news is, at least one team in the NFC Central has to lose in this one.* BUFFALO 30, MIAMI 23: If you added Jim...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 1, 1992 | Detroit Free Press
I don’t want to be a wet noodle, but we shouldn’t throw a party just because the Pistons signed Terry Mills. I know Terry. I like Terry. But facts are facts. He’s a question-mark NBA player with a history of weight problems and only a half-...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 28, 1992 | Detroit Free Press
The room was full of shoulda-been heroes. Mel Gray, who took a kickoff and burst like a gazelle through the guts of the Tampa Bay defense, an out-of-your-seat touchdown that had teammates on hands and knees thanking God for his presence. Gray shoulda been the hero. But now he tucked in his shirt and pulled on his belt. “It would’ve been nice,” was all he would say.
by Mitch Albom | Sep 27, 1992 | Detroit Free Press
Raise your hand if you ever felt like running away from home.
Raise your hand if you ever felt your parents ignored you.
Raise your hand if you ever felt you’d rather live with another family, one that had more fun and more money.
Hmm. A lot of hands. Now consider what happened in a Florida courtroom last week: 12-year-old Gregory Kingsley was officially “divorced” from his natural parents and awarded to foster parents — one of whom happens to be a lawyer who helped represent the boy in court.
