by Mitch Albom | Mar 31, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
The Blues have it. No. Wait. The Greens. The Greens have it, don’t they? Or is it the Blues? Well, the beauty of today’s basketball feast is that we don’t have to pick. Michigan can win. Michigan State can win. There is no “either.” There...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 30, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Mitch Albom Verlander talks celebrity, surgery, losing Leyland, and putting last season behindHome opener What: Tigers open their 114th season, against the Kansas City RoyalsWhen: 1:08 p.m. MondayWhere: Comerica Park (sold out) TV/radio: FSD; WXYT-FM (97.1)Pitchers:...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 27, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
The champagne was spritzing and the players were singing and it was a Detroit party inside a Los Angeles locker room. The whole world lay ahead for the basketball players known as the Bad Boys, the Detroit Pistons team of 1989. They were young and lean and...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 23, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
“By all means dress in ridiculous togs, exchange rings and kisses … but call it a wedding … with nothing theological about it – and leave marriage to those who still believe in its sanctity.”- Brian SewellI did a London radio show two...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 17, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Here’s what you’ve been missing. That’s what Branden Dawson seemed to be saying with every straining muscle behind his tomahawk dunk Sunday in Indianapolis, one that put the Spartans deeply ahead of the Wolverines and deeply into the worry zone of every team in this...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 17, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
“It’s not that the tank is completely empty, it just doesn’t have enough to carry me through every day at the high level where I want to play at. …”Nicklas LidstromThe end of an ice ageLidstrom’s decision to leave the wings proves...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 16, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
I remember when my free ride ended. I had been complaining about doing my chores and the size of my allowance, and my father took me by the shoulders, pointed a finger and said, “No more allowance. It’s time you pulled your own weight around here.”I was 11.Shortly...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 15, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
“If my being more ‘public’ helps our success, sure, I’d do it. But I never felt that it would win a football game or help us catch a pass or score a touchdown.”— William Clay Ford, 1997 In death, he found new life. There has been more praise of William Clay Ford...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 9, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
TACLOBAN, PHILIPPINES — Water rises.A school superintendent tells how his family scrambled to the upper floor of their house. How the storm burst the windows and rain gushed up the steps, swallowing furniture as it swirled higher and higher, like a scene from...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 2, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press, Sports
It’s not my word. I don’t like it. I don’t use it. To me, the N-word is a hateful slur based on a person’s skin color. Yet because my skin is also a certain color, I am told I cannot criticize its usage. It’s not my word. But sooner or...
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