by Mitch Albom | Mar 30, 2025 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Anyone who witnessed college basketball in the ’70s and ’80s knows the manic hysteria the sport can achieve. There was nothing like those sweaty gyms in the final minutes, with students screaming and coaches hollering and teams racing up and down the...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 16, 2025 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Millions of us were going to die quickly. Masks would be a permanent part of life. No one would ever shake hands again. Cruise ships would cease to exist. Many things were predicted at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which marked its five-year anniversary last...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 9, 2025 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me?” — Jewish proverb Basketball players get used to standing out. They are often the tallest kids in their class. They draw stares walking through airports. They hear jokes about “How’s the air up there?” A...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 2, 2025 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
My wife and I are raising a 3-year-old girl, so we are constantly reminding her to be grateful. “What do you say?” we ask, whenever she is given something. “Thank you,” she coos. It is something parents do with children. It is not something presidents and vice...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 16, 2025 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
“My son wasn’t moving. And I kept saying … ’Please, get up!’” When Tateona Williams parked her van in a Detroit casino parking lot around 1 a.m. last Monday, she was just another poor mother experiencing homelessness. But when two of her children died in...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 10, 2025 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
NEW ORLEANS – This is how you take down a dynasty: by the knees. During one Kansas City possession in Super Bowl LIX, the Philadelphia Eagles actually sacked Patrick Mahomes on first down, then sacked him on second down, then, on third down, chased him until he forced...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 9, 2025 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
In a congressional hearing last week, U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, of Virginia, a Republican, was criticizing the use of federal money for programs involving transgender individuals. She referred to them with a slur that we’ll call “the T word.” She was...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 2, 2025 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
The wreckage was still burning in the Potomac River and all the bodies were yet to be fished out when our president decided he knew what was at fault for the crash. DEI. Blaming the Biden and Obama administrations, he quickly pointed the finger at...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 26, 2025 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
I find you standing outside Ford Field on Sunday. It’s snowing. It’s cold. You are decked out in Detroit Lions gear. “You know there’s no game today, right?” I ask. “Don’t be an idiot,” you reply. I glance around. The parking lot is closed. The...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 20, 2025 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Dear Football Gods, We, the people of Detroit, come before you with a simple question: Why us? What have we done? How have we angered you? What awful sin have we committed that makes you dangle a season of magnificent, gritty football promise...
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