by Mitch Albom | Dec 6, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
What made a young couple walk into a health facility and start shooting people? It wasn’t our gun laws. It wasn’t the easy ability to purchase a weapon in this country. If such things made people killers, all Americans would be killers. In that narrow way, gun...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 29, 2015 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
The sky was clear but the storm kept coming, a relentless downpour of scarlet and gray that ran, got up, ran, got up, and ran some more. The Ohio State rushing attack was a tank, collecting first downs like mud in its tires and rolling over every possession, plowing...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 25, 2015 | Detroit Free Press
What’s the best part of waking up on Thanksgiving? The morning doorbell? Your kids making noise in the kitchen? The smell of turkey, already wafting? For the last few months, the best part of waking up for Chris Liwak, 56, has been finding a morning Detroit Free Press...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 24, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
If cancer could be tackled, Chad Carr would have made the hit. He was only 5, too young for pads or a helmet. And even bloated from the steroids the doctors prescribed, he was pretty small. But he was huge in heart and even bigger in stature. If prayers and...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 22, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
When a soldier goes off to fight, we say, “We’re praying for you.” When a soldier passes in uniform we gush, “Thank you for your service.” When a soldier is brought out on a football field, we whoop and cheer loudly. But when a soldier...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 15, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press, Sports
For years, we’ve debated whether college football players should be paid. Their games bring in a fortune. Their TV revenue builds stadiums and libraries. Yet, the players get only scholarships and living expenses. The money and power, critics say, is highly...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 6, 2015 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
As endings go, it was a start. The Detroit Lions gave a crew cut to their front office Thursday, firing president Tom Lewand and general manager Martin Mayhew during the bye week. In doing so, they cut the last real ties to the Matt Millen era and the 0-16 debacle of...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 1, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Today’s column will surprise the first person who reads it. That’s because the first person to read my column — for pretty much the last 25 years — has been my editor, my boss and my friend, Gene Myers. Who will retire once he edits this last one. It’s not my fault (I...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 27, 2015 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Well, somebody had to go down. Besides the quarterback. When you’re 1-6 and you can’t run and you can’t block and you can’t score and you can’t protect your assets, no one is safe. Joe Lombardi, the Lions’ offensive coordinator,...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 26, 2015 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
The only difference between the Detroit Lions’ offensive line and a human sacrifice is the altar. Matthew Stafford was served up all day Sunday, a slab of meat to a pack of hungry dogs. Every snap left you cringing. It was like a horror film where you wanted to...
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