by Mitch Albom | Nov 12, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
Recently, at the University of Kentucky, a student named Lexi Baskin came out of the library to find her car covered in fliers. “Shame on you,” they read. Although her vehicle was legally parked in a handicapped spot, and displayed a handicapped tag, the fliers on her...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 5, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
What makes a terrorist? Can anyone really say? There are generalities about poverty, but well-to-do men have gone on killing sprees. There are accusations about being raised in certain countries, but terrorists pledge fealty to groups halfway around the world....
by Mitch Albom | Oct 29, 2017 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
I’m confused. I either live in the worst city in America, or the second-best place on Earth to visit. The “worst” classification comes from Wallethub, a finance website. The “second best” comes fromLonely Planet, the largest travel guide publisher in the world. Both...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 15, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
What would you take if your life depended on it? Five minutes. Two minutes. A fire is sweeping toward your home, and whatever you can carry may be all you get to keep. What do you grab? It’s an unsettling question. Not as unsettling as the flames that are destroying...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 9, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Pssst. Here’s a badly kept secret: the Detroit Lions have offensive issues. That may sound strange after the crazy close of Sunday’s game against Carolina, which saw two Lions touchdowns in less than three minutes. But that was backyard ball against a 17-point...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 8, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
It wasn’t funny. Cam Newton thought it was. The charismatic quarterback of the Carolina Panthers was responding to a perfectly acceptable sports question from a reporter for the Charlotte Observer. The question was about a receiver and his pass routes. The reporter...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 6, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
On my way to the new building, I stopped at the old one. Joe Louis Arena sat alone in the autumn sun. I entered easily and walked down the mostly empty corridors, stacked with chairs, crates of paper, old banners and posters. It looked like someone was moving out....
by Mitch Albom | Sep 30, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
The children in my life — and there are dozens of them — generally think I’m strict. But they know I’m a softy when it comes to one thing: books. They can have whatever books they want. I’ll buy them. I’ll deliver them. Anytime. Anywhere. Reading, to me, is always a...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 25, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
“By rule the game is over.” That was the last thing anyone heard. The ref announced it, and the stadium fell into a boofest that would scare a Games of Thrones zombie. High to low. Glory to ghastly. I have seen 32 years of Lions football in person, and I never thought...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 24, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
They kneeled, they held hands, they locked arms, they dropped heads, in one case, an entire team didn’t even take the field. A practice that started last year with one quarterback and one national anthem reached its most expansive level Sunday, across America and even...
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