by Mitch Albom | Jul 21, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment, Sports
It was the fax heard around the world. Barry Sanders, for the first and only time in his career, mailed it in. Through a piece of paper in a Wichita newspaper office, one of the greatest running backs in the history of football called it quits. Twenty years later,...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 23, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
When the story broke last week about a group of Colorado parents fighting each other at their children’s baseball game — and by fighting, I mean real punches, haymakers, bodies thrown to the ground — many people were shocked. I wasn’t. One thing any veteran...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 16, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
Most folks over 35 will agree, high school today isn’t the way they remember it. Here’s an example: two weeks ago, in what’s becoming a national trend, a California valedictorian named Nataly Buhr used parts of her speech to trash her school. “To my counselor, thank...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 9, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
This time, it’s not a hole in the roof. It’s a gap in the community. Ten years ago, I wrote about a church on Brainard and Trumbull, not far from old Tiger Stadium. It was holding services in the rain and snow — literally, in the rain and snow — because a large roof...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 2, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
When Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proudly signed the new auto no-fault insurance reform bill last week, she did so in broad daylight with the power elite on Mackinac Island. Too bad the bill itself was whipped together in the wee hours, hidden from any serious public debate,...
by Mitch Albom | May 23, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
People make this mistake about the Fab Five. They were not all the same guy. Not even close. Chris Webber and Jalen Rose, inseparable back then, were, personality wise, miles apart. Jimmy King and Ray Jackson were both from Texas, but the sameness ended there. And...
by Mitch Albom | May 19, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
Tonight is the final episode of “Game of Thrones.” This means nothing on a how-does-it-change-the-world scale, unless you are one of millions who have watched this show from the beginning, which I believe was the Paleolithic Era. In which case, it feels like it’s the...
by Mitch Albom | May 14, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
A dream is a wish your heart makes. That’s how the old Disney song goes. So let’s take the high road and say the dream of coaching an NBA team was just too strong a wish for John Beilein’s heart to turn down. Better to think that. Better to think Beilein, at age 66,...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 29, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
ZIMBABWE — I was in a hotel room here, minutes away from one of the seven natural wonders of the world, when I got the phone call that Judge Damon Keith had died. Only hours earlier, I had stood in the glorious spray of Victoria Falls, the largest waterfall on the...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 21, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Admit it. You were smiling. Steve Yzerman was back. Storm clouds parted. Rainbows appeared. The Stanley Cup posters in your basement were vibrating. Somewhere, the band who did “Hey, Hey, Hockeytown!” was tuning up. Steve Yzerman will run the Detroit Red Wings. It’s...
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