by Mitch Albom | Sep 11, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
On this day 15 years ago, a group of terrorists boarded airplanes, hijacked them and crashed them into New York skyscrapers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. By that night, our country was unified. Remember the feeling? We were all together. We were all one. We...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 4, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Moments before Michigan’s football season began Saturday, coach Jim Harbaugh was excitedly banging the shoulder pads of Wilton Speight, his newly starting quarterback. And after Speight’s first pass, Harbaugh likely wanted to bang on something else. But this is why...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 1, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
How Michigan’s football coach Jim Harbaugh does things his way, an enthusiastic way, but a way different from his mentor Schembechler. That gum. That poor gum! It’s getting chomped. Mashed. It’s a tiny, helpless glob in the ever-gnashing molars of Jim Harbaugh,...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 28, 2016 | Sports, Detroit Free Press
Spartans football coach Mark Dantonio talks about his program, his hangup, his rival Harbaugh and his lack of smiling. EAST LANSING — When your friends say you should smile more in news conferences, it usually means two things: 1) You should smile more in news...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 25, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
It’s that time of year when parents take their kids off to college. And when they say good-bye, many will add, “Be safe.” But “safe” has a whole new meaning on campuses today, far beyond staying out late or drinking too much. “Safe” — and “safe spaces” — now means a...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 11, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Sports TV host John Saunders did his job without ego for ESPN for nearly 30 years, unexpectedly died Tuesday night at age 61 I was sitting at my computer Wednesday morning when the phone rang. “I have some terrible news.” The trembling voice belonged to Joe Valerio,...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 8, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
If there is one huge difference between the older and younger generations, it’s how they use their cell phones. Old people squint and tap out numbers. Young people put them down their pants. Thus, we once again get a story of a celebrity inadvertently showing the...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 25, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
We had just landed from Haiti. The airplane was packed; it was hot and sticky, and the little girl I was traveling with was sick. As we entered the jetway, I was relieved to see a row of wheelchairs waiting. “We ordered one of those,” I said. Two airport workers, a...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 17, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
Next week, as he did last summer and the summer before, Peter Carey will drive into Detroit, listening to old recordings of Ernie Harwell broadcasts. He will mimic what he hears, especially the Georgia twang, taking note to drop the “r,” so that “Tigers” sounds like...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 10, 2016 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
We were driving down Woodward to check on the water ice shop, my nephew and me, two white men in the front of an old SUV. This was late Friday night, around 10:30. The air was warm and humid, and there were a few people still walking the big avenue. Suddenly, there...
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