by Mitch Albom | Apr 11, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
If you live long enough, movies start to look familiar. They call them “historical documentaries.” I call them memories. Tonight, the film “The Russian Five” debuts at the Freep Film Festival. It’s a sold-out event, befitting the subject, because the five hockey...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 9, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
It was exactly five years ago that I lost my job… Today marks three years since we got divorced… On this date, 30 years earlier, the stock market collapsed… One year ago, our little girl died. April 7th. That date has sat on our calendar like a grim reaper lurking...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 29, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
This is a story about coming a long way, and it begins with garlic. Lots of garlic. That’s what Axel Wagner, Moe’s father, used on the lamb he cooked the night Michigan basketball coach John Beilein traveled 4,200 miles from Ann Arbor to Berlin to meet his son....
by Mitch Albom | Mar 28, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Well, this just isn’t fair. After beating Montana, Houston, Texas A&M and Florida State, the Michigan Wolverines now have to defeat God. OK, maybe not God, His or Herself. But one of God’s more dedicated servants. A nun. And not just a nun. A 98-year-old nun. And...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 25, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
What have you done so far with your day? Even if you’re reading this early in the morning you’ve likely brushed your teeth, dressed, brewed a cup of coffee. The more ambitious may have already worked out, showered, cooked breakfast. At the very least, you’ve used the...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 18, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
During the two years we were blessed to raise our little girl from Haiti, there was no bigger adventure than a trip to Toys ‘R’ Us. To adults, it might have been a megastore, big and boxy, but to a 5-year-old, it was Shangri-La. All those toys in one...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 4, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Comment, Sports
As we grapple with the evils of money and college sports, we might want to remember Jodie Foster. The actress, who enrolled at Yale University when she was 17, had already been nominated for an Oscar, been paid for many Disney movies, and even hosted “Saturday Night...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 18, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
I’ve held a dying child in my arms. I can tell you, as will others who have done it — in war, in a hospital, after a tragic accident or a random shooting — that the only thing you think about is saving the child’s life. You would go anywhere. Do anything. Give up...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 11, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
Anyone who flies these days knows the last thing the airline industry needs is more favors. You already can’t fit in a seat, can’t get a meal, and can’t take bags, change your ticket, sit where you want or even speak to a human being without incurring a fee. Yet...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 8, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
The Beard has landed. Matt Patricia arrived in Detroit on Wednesday to take over the Lions after spending weeks as the worst-kept hiring secret in the NFL. At first blush, the former Patriots defensive coordinator — fresh off Sunday’s Super Bowl — seemed intelligent,...
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