by Mitch Albom | Oct 25, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
I saw Paul McCartney in concert this past week. He was playing at Joe Louis Arena. I ponied up the money ($250 a ticket) partly because, as others in the crowd admitted, you never know when it’s your last chance to see a Beatle. That must be a grim idea to...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 18, 2015 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
After 30 years of penning columns at the Detroit Free Press, I should confess: Writing was not my first love. Music was. As I kid, I dreamed not of broadsheets but of sheet music, not of the Bard but the Beatles. I always saw myself behind a keyboard, but not the kind...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 17, 2015 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Rub your eyes. Shake your head. Rub your eyes again. You will never see a play like that again and you will never see an end like that again and there may never be a game in this storied Michigan-Michigan State rivalry like that again, not one that ends more strangely...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 13, 2015 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Matthew Stafford had never been pulled from a game. Not in high school. Not in college. Not in seven years in the NFL. But Jim Caldwell pulled him Sunday. Took him out after his third interception of the day, less than five minutes into the third quarter. Stafford...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 12, 2015 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Matthew Stafford is the quarterback. Let’s be clear about that. He may have been benched. May have watched the second half of Sunday’s implosion from the sideline. But he’s not going anywhere. He’s not losing his job to Dan Orlovsky — no matter...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 11, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
This past week on “The View,” a TV host named Raven-Symoné made headlines when she said she wouldn’t hire anyone with a name that sounded too black. As an example, she gave “Watermelondrea.” This became news because, for one thing, Symoné...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 9, 2015 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
The Detroit Red Wings start their season tonight, and the opposing team will be led by Mike Babcock, the former Detroit coach, who was hired by Brendan Shanahan, the former Detroit player. You’ve heard of chickens coming home to roost. Is this the wolves coming...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 4, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
In the old days (you know, 20 years ago), bad behavior at weddings was something whispered among friends and family. Today, thanks to social media, it’s all over the world. So we learn of a Minnesota couple, the Bakers, who were planning to attend a relative’s wedding...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 27, 2015 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
September should be must-win time in baseball, not football. But here we are. The Detroit Lions play an undefeated Denver Broncos team Sunday night with nothing less than the course of the season hanging in the balance.Win the game, they sidestep a massive sinkhole,...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 27, 2015 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
On the weekend the Detroit Tigers would likely surrender the season, they chose to save one piece of it.Their manager.Brad Ausmus will return as skipper next year.Al Avila, the new general manager, announced it Saturday, before a game that officially eliminated...
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