by Mitch Albom | Sep 24, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Brad Ausmus got up Saturday and went to work, knowing his job was gone in a few weeks. In this way, he was more like a Detroiter than he’d ever been. How many auto workers have done the same with an imminent plant closing? Or teachers with a school closing? “I...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 24, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
Why are so many high school teachers having sex with their students? Female teachers, in particular? I hear this question a lot. But I never hear a good answer. Last week, we learned of an Arkansas art teacher who was accused in a court filing of having sex with four...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 17, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
This summer, I had eight eyes. Two were my own, and six belonged to three young men from Haiti, who were raised at an orphanage I operate there and were making their first trip ever to another country — America — to work as camp counselors. Siem, the oldest, is stocky...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 11, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
First of all, they won. Now. About that first quarter. I’ll be nice. It was horrendous. The Lions started the 2017 season the way a disinterested 6-year-old starts a piano lesson: forgetting the basics, hitting clunkers, and looking like he doesn’t want to be there....
by Mitch Albom | Sep 10, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Comment, Sports
With apologies to the Tigers, the Pistons, and even the Red Wings, who made “Hockeytown” our unofficial nickname … Detroit is a football city. A pro football city. And if the Lions ever won it all, the celebration would blow all World Series, Stanley Cup and NBA title...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 10, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Comment, Sports
“Me? I’m 53. It’s gone dead,” said Jim Harbaugh, pointing to his stomach. “I’m dead in here. Burnt wood. No nervousness. Butterflies. Emotions that way. “But guys that are doing it for the first time or the second time…” Exactly. Harbaugh, with his theatrical gut...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 3, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Detroit sports fans — Tigers fans especially — like to honor those who put in their time. Al Kaline. Alan Trammell. Ernie Harwell. They’re heroes here not only for their talents, but their longevity. Now, it’s Justin Verlander’s turn. The Tigers’ ace, who came out of...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 27, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
I was on a college campus last week, and saw vehicles unloading new students. It made me nostalgic. Then I realized if parents were recalling that milestone from, say, 50 years ago, and parents were recalling it from today, we’d be hearing two different stories … ....
by Mitch Albom | Aug 20, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
Last week marked the one-year anniversary of Colin Kaepernick sitting for the national anthem before NFL games. He told the media it was in protest of police brutality and that he would not “show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 13, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
So I actually read the entire 10 page memo written by Google engineer James Damore, who began last week as an anonymous tech guy and ended it as globally infamous and, thanks to his memo, unemployed. In his post, which has been called by many who never read it an...
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