by Mitch Albom | Sep 11, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Before the game, his first as an NFL head coach, Matt Patricia bounced excitedly between his husky players, slapping their helmets and shoulder pads, as if he might join them in the field of battle. Bearded, stocky and dressed in all black, he looked like a guy who...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 9, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
It was called a “feel good” story, but it was all about feeling bad. A 50-year-old woman was shopping with her 40-year-old wife at a Trader Joe’s in New Jersey. At the checkout counter, they noticed a slightly heavyset cashier with a graying beard. He was...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 9, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Mark this down. History was made — and stopped — Saturday afternoon at the Big House. First the stop. Facing Western Michigan, under a milky white sky, Shea Patterson dropped back in the second quarter and heaved the ball 44 yards to the end zone, where it was caught...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 26, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Comment, Sports
When Urban Meyer stood to read his “apology” at a news conference last week, he looked like the bully who was forced to say he’s sorry to the skinny schoolkid. He raced through it and sat back down, as if to say, “OK? Satisfied?” It is the behavior of someone who only...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 19, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
Death has no ears. A journalist wrote that more than 100 years ago, on the passing of a beloved Spanish guitarist named Francisco Tárrega. Only a force incapable of hearing, the writer claimed, could ever erase such music from the world. When Aretha Louise Franklin...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 5, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
“(The people) have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right, to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers.” — John Adams, 1765 President Donald Trump last week called many media...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 29, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Comment, Sports
Pitchers and shortstops. The cornerstones of a baseball defense. One strikes ‘em out. The other throws ‘em out. In Little League, the pitcher and shortstop can be the same kid (usually the best player on the team). But come the majors, pitchers and shortstops couldn’t...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 22, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who hear “brand” and think marketing, and those who hear “brand” and think a hot poker stuck into a cow. I admit to being one of the latter. I’m slow to the whole “brand” dialogue. I get it for soda, cars and...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 15, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
They were blue and yellow and you could see their signs from far away. At their peak, they averaged nearly 100 per state, and it felt as if there was one on every corner. We joined their ranks. We had their membership cards. We knew their hours. They were called...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 1, 2018 | Detroit Free Press
I’m not sure I ever wore a dunce cap. But I remember them. They came to a point, like a Conehead, and teachers made you wear them if you did something stupid. I also remember “Go stand in the corner,” another form of student punishment. You could sense the eyes of...
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