by Mitch Albom | Sep 14, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
It rained, he played and it was really freeThe esteemed guitar player kept strumming in the rain. His audience was around 30 people, down from the hundreds who had come to see him before the storm hit.”What else?” he yelled, smiling.Someone called a song....
by Mitch Albom | Sep 10, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press, Sports
So now we know who’s running the NFL.It’s TMZ.Had the celebrity website not released the first video of Ray Rice dragging his unconscious then-fiancée out of an elevator – causing a huge national outcry – who knows what the league might have...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 10, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Matthew Stafford took off running. In the past, this made you worry. In the past, this was a last resort – and how much can you expect from a last resort? But this is not the past. And apparently, Stafford spent the summer on “Dancing with the...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 10, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Monday night madnessMitch Albom takes a look back at the Lions’ previous two Monday night games at Ford FieldOct. 10, 2011Lions 24, Bears 13Jahvid Best, loud crowd spark Monday night return to DetroitReprinted from Oct. 11, 2011.Change. One minute, the Lions...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 9, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Matthew Stafford took off running. In the past, this made you worry. In the past, Stafford hoofing it was a last resort — and how much can you expect from a last resort?But this is not the past. And apparently, the Lions quarterback spent the summer on “Dancing with...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 9, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Before he turned his career to pitching, Joe Nathan played shortstop. “At least half my life,” he would later recall. So on the mound Tuesday night, in the top of the ninth, with “two of the quickest guys in the game” on first and second and Nathan facing the real...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 7, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
If you needed proof that the world has grown too cynical, look no further than the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.The idea, essentially, was to challenge people to donate $100 to the ALS Association — or have a bucket of ice water dumped on their heads.It caught on wildly...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 17, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
I love cars.They don’t love me back.I think they’re afraid of me. I would be. My handling of cars over the years has been horrific. I have smashed them, crashed them, lost their mirrors, lost their doors, and, on numerous occasions, lost the cars...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 10, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
First in an Occasional Series: What Poor Looks Like: The spirit and struggles of people getting by Once, they were all young together, Margaret, her brother John, and a blind neighborhood kid named Stevie Judkins – who wore pants that, Margaret recalls,...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 3, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
I would like to offer a blood transfusion, free of charge, to every kid in America. Because clearly I have special plasma that allowed me to survive a traumatic childhood.I walked to school, on my own, and survived. I walked to a park, on my own, and survived. I sat...
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