by Mitch Albom | Feb 25, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
All game long, the ball was in his hands, a Greenergizer Bunny in a sea of yellow jerseys. Dribbling, driving, dishing, laying it in. He never came out. Never took a breather. Finally, after all that action forged a sizable lead, Michigan had no choice but to foul...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 24, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
Tonight is the Academy Awards, so perhaps it’s fitting that last week’s biggest story was an actor’s excellent performance — in an accused hoax. Jussie Smollett from the TV show “Empire,” a name relatively few Americans knew last month and a great number know now (and...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 17, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
You’re in the shower. The phone rings. Your husband is out of town and you’ve been waiting for his call. You push through the curtain, your hair full of shampoo, you grab the phone and blurt out, “Hello?” “Hello,” a voice answers, “this is Cindy with card...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 4, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
ATLANTA — They were coming, the Rams, like kids running down a hill, giddy with their speed, going faster in the fourth quarter than they had all night. Jared Goff, who’d been terribly out of sync, was momentarily sharp, Clark Kent in a phone booth, and he moved his...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 3, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Don’t ask us. That’s my stock answer to The Tom Brady Question. True, he played college ball right down the road at Michigan. And true, when someone becomes the greatest NFL quarterback of all time — and if Brady leads the New England Patriots to a sixth Super Bowl...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 27, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
Some things you never forget, no matter how much you might want to. Guy Stern, of West Bloomfield, cannot forget the day he left Germany, in 1937, because he was the only member of his family allowed to go. He had an uncle in America who could sponsor one person, and...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 20, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
This happens a lot. I’m visiting with someone, or having a meeting, and for some reason I need to make a call, and I reach in my pocket and take out my phone … And the person breaks out laughing. “No way,” they chortle. Or, “Oh, please.” This is because I use a flip...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 13, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
I think the tipping point came last week, near the end of the NBC broadcast of the Bears-Eagles game, when Golden Tate caught a touchdown to propel Philadelphia into the second round of the playoffs. “The trade…was officially…worth it!” exclaimed Cris Collinsworth....
by Mitch Albom | Jan 6, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
I made a New Year’s resolution to stay away from angry politics. It took less than a week to blow it. The dynamite to my best-laid plans came off the lips of newly minted Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who, shortly after being sworn in last week — before she took a...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 23, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
Three weeks. That’s how long he had gone without eating. His water intake had been minimal, small sips, whatever he could keep down, and he couldn’t keep much down. Something was wrong with Gaelson, a 7-year-old orphan — at least we think he’s 7, as there...
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