by Mitch Albom | Oct 28, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
The word sanctuary conjures a place of safety. A place where you will not be harmed. In religious terms, it is a place on Earth where you are closest to God. It was none of that Saturday morning. Not in Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue, which reportedly housed a...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 21, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
EAST LANSING — The game hadn’t even started, and Devin Bush Jr. was trying to dig up the Spartan logo with his cleats. The Michigan linebacker hoofed at the midfield grass so aggressively, I thought he was going to get down on all fours and charge at a green cape. It...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 14, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
Last time I checked, the only squirrel that could fly on his own was in “Rocky and Bullwinkle.” Others would presumably need an airplane. But in today’s world, that’s not a problem. You never know what furry creature might be scurrying up the aisles. And...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 8, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Romeo Okwara was still sweating in the locker room, even after he’d showered and dressed. The Detroit Lions defensive end had spent the whole game running after Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers. Someone asked him if, when he finally sacked Rodgers, he allowed himself a...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 7, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
It was the early 1980s, just after Dave Anderson won a Pulitzer Prize for his sports writing in the New York Times. Dave, in his early 50s, was a major voice at the most important newspaper in the city. And I was a struggling young musician, needing money. I found...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 30, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
Do you remember “Animal House?” At the end of that movie, about a wild fraternity in the 1960s, the frat brothers are frozen, one by one, above a sentence that shows where each ends up. The last character, everybody’s favorite, is John Belushi’s perpetually...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 24, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Who were those aliens in blue, and what did they do with our Detroit Lions? The team that played at Ford Field Sunday night had as much relation to the one that played there two weeks earlier as I have to Brad Pitt. Oh they wore the same numbers. There was No. 9,...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 23, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
The request was simple. Happens all the time. A University of Michigan student who planned to study a semester abroad asked one of her professors for a recommendation letter. He was willing to do it. And then he changed his mind. Not because she wasn’t a good student....
by Mitch Albom | Sep 16, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
That was no accident Friday. Hank Zetterberg said goodbye to an amazing hockey career exactly where he wanted to do it: Where it began. “Having a little media scrum in the corner, in a practice rink, in Traverse City, during training camp,” he admitted Saturday via...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 16, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI – As I finish this, I am in a vehicle about to pull up to our orphanage. I will likely be greeted by a happy rush of children, whom I haven’t seen in a month, jumping and squealing and asking if I brought them anything. It is the best way to...
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