by Mitch Albom | Sep 20, 2015 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Fantasy is hardly new in football. Little kids call out players’ names as they tackle. A joystick lets you move like your favorite running back. Trading cards. Jerseys with players’ numbers. All part of imagining ourselves as part of the game. None of...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 13, 2015 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Jim Harbaugh, perhaps the most energized man in Michigan football history, raced out with his team on Saturday, but unlike the players he did not leap to touch the giant blue banner.He was saving those moves for later.Oh, he had plenty of them at Michigan...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 13, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Sometimes police tapes can be misleading. Not this one. Sometimes suspects demand force. Not this one. Sometimes a cop has a really good reason. Not this one.The videotape of James Blake being arrested in New York City this past week leaves nothing to the imagination....
by Mitch Albom | Sep 3, 2015 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Stop trying to figure out Jim Harbaugh. Even he can’t do it.”When I have football dreams,” he says, “they always finish with a drive at the end of the game. And I’m always playing — I never dream of football where I coach — but I’m...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 16, 2015 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Two football players got in an argument this past week. One was a linebacker. The other was the starting quarterback. Often starting quarterbacks wear red jerseys during practices, to remind teammates not to hit them too hard. That didn’t stop the linebacker. In...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 9, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Lemonacherry? Lemonacherry?Those were the first Italian words I ever heard. Well. I thought it was Italian. I lived in a small New Jersey town and my greatest culinary delight was walking to a corner grocery for a dessert called water ice. It was the best. Frozen like...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 9, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Not many people know this story. Before working at the Detroit Free Press, I was a sports feature writer at a newspaper in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. I was desperate to be a columnist. I had come from the music world, I thrived on creativity, and it felt natural to me to...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 5, 2015 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Something happened. We don’t know what. We might not for a while. But there is no way Tuesday afternoon’s sudden dismissal of Dave Dombrowski as Tigers president and general manager is a consensual parting of the ways. Not midseason. The Tigers don’t...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 2, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
It’s not the what. It’s the when.Thirty years ago, the trade deadline was June 15. Teams used it for last-chance shuffling before settling in to battle for the playoffs.But since 1985, when the trade deadline was moved six weeks later, to July 31, the...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 2, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
She was the first cheerleader I ever wrote about. Maybe the only one. It was 24 years ago, but I still remember Beth Hardman, because her smile was as blinding as a headlight and she wore a sock over her left foot.Or what remained of her left foot.Hardman had a rare...
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