by Mitch Albom | Nov 12, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
He fell off the map and resurfaced in an obituary. The short, sad saga of Charles Rogers reached its final frame Monday, when news broke that he had died at 38, reportedly due to cancer and liver issues. Few fans who once cheered him had any idea where he was....
by Mitch Albom | Nov 3, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment, News
Published today in the Detroit Free Press! In 2013, author and Free Press columnist Mitch Albom admitted a young girl named Chika Jeune into the orphanage he operates in Port Au Prince, Haiti. Little Chika was born three days before the massive earthquake of...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 3, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment, Sports
There were two days in Juwan Howard’s life that he chose Michigan. Both ended in tears. The first was almost exactly 29 years ago, when he rose and got dressed in his grandmother’s place on the south side of Chicago. She told him to wear something nice,...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 28, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
It’s a play you draw up in the dirt as kids. You go out, I’ll throw it to you, you throw it back, and I’ll throw it to someone else. Over the years it has acquired various names, the most popular being the flea flicker, coined by a high school coach a...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 27, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
This happened every Halloween when I was a kid. The doorbell would ring, usually at night, when my siblings and I were already home from our candy walks. We’d open the door, all excited, and some teenager would be standing on the porch in jeans and a sweatshirt....
by Mitch Albom | Oct 21, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Dalvin Cook, who runs like a truck without brakes, bounced off of one Lion, ducked between two others and scooted into the end zone for the 41st point of the Minnesota Vikings’ afternoon. Detroit fans headed for the exit. Enough. A day that began with deafening...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 16, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
As I got off an airplane Tuesday morning, a man leaned in and said, “Monday night was the first time I let my 9-year-old son stay up and watch a Detroit Lions game.” I cracked that he should treat his children better. He laughed. Some folks around us...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 13, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
It was a short tweet. Only seven words. But it ripped the façade off of two giant forces, the Chinese government and the National Basketball Association, and exposed their hypocrisies in a sobering light. If you’ve ever doubted the power of free speech, and the perils...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 6, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment, Sports
One of the great things college teaches us is that it’s not always simple. Answers can be complex and nuanced. When it comes to sharing the wealth in college sports, it’s not that simple either. California passed a “fair pay to play” law last...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 30, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
A giant fist hangs in our downtown. It suggests a city that knows the value of a wallop. And for most of the slugfest that was the Lions-Chiefs epic Sunday afternoon, a bloodied Detroit football team was giving as good as it was taking. Justin Coleman punched a...
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