by Mitch Albom | Oct 5, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
You can’t always get what you want, but you should at least get what you order.Even if it’s a baby.That’s the upshot of a lawsuit filed by a lesbian couple in Ohio, who were shocked to find out they were having an African-American child.Three years...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 5, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Tigers can win today, but not in long runIt’s not that the Tigers can’t win today. They can. Comerica Park is not a shoebox like Camden Yards, and routine fly balls here do not rack up as home runs. David Price could pitch into the eighth inning, limiting...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 2, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Like a tightrope walker reaching the platform, Max Scherzer can exhale now. He made it across. Working without a net this season, on a one-year contract he chose over a six-year, $144-million offer in the spring, Scherzer has been flirting with grenades all season. A...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 29, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
In a clubhouse ripe with champagne and cigar smoke, Mike Ilitch, the man who owns the Tigers, made his way gingerly to the manager’s office. At 85, he moved slowly. But as he entered the room, he sounded like a kid.”All right!” he exclaimed....
by Mitch Albom | Sep 28, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Don’t be surprised if a Jewish friend or acquaintance comes up to you this week and, out of the blue, asks for forgiveness.It is a lesser-known but integral part of the Jewish high holidays, going on right now, in which people atone for their sins not only with...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 25, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Late Wednesday afternoon, in the top of the eighth inning, on his 109th pitch of the day, Justin Verlander blew a 94-m.p.h. fastball past White Sox cleanup hitter Conor Gillaspie. Strike 3! Verlander pounded the air with his fist. He hollered. His chest was heaving as...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 22, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
DeAndre Levy pulled on the helmet. It wasn’t the normal helmet. It was the “other” helmet. The one with the extra radio in it. The one he can only use if Stephen Tulloch goes down. Which Tulloch did. For the first time in nine years. After...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 21, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
So this is your office?” I ask.”I cleaned it up,” she says. “Can you smell the Pledge?”I glance around a nearly empty room, just bookcases, a desk, a picture of Jesus.”Is your home like this, too?””Yeah,” she says....
by Mitch Albom | Sep 18, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Adrian Peterson is not the worst man on earth. But I have no sympathy for him. Not after he has been accused of abusing two 4-year-old sons.When you have two kids the same age, they are either twins, or you were way too busy that year. Turns out the latter is often...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 14, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Most football coaches like the occasional fight. They privately encourage a brawl here and there during the preseason, or look the other way when a tiff breaks out in practice. It is seen as a sign of readiness for the edgy, violent aggression that is needed to win on...
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