by Mitch Albom | Feb 23, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
MANILA, Philippines The white-haired woman is short but stands straight, in a pink blouse and flat shoes, with mostly unwrinkled skin, a wide nose and a broad smile that nearly leaps from her face when she laughs. You congratulate her on being 90 years old, and she...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 16, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press, Sports
Marcus Smart went to block a shot and landed near the crowd. It was the final seconds of a college basketball game that his team, Oklahoma State, was losing. He hit the floor hard, got to his feet, then straightened at hearing something. A man in his 50s had yelled,...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 9, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
This past week marked the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ first appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” There were TV specials and nostalgic articles. And if I were in my teens today, I might ask, “What’s the big deal?”It’s a...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 3, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. The first snap of Super Bowl XLVIII sailed over Peyton Manning’s head and landed in his end zone. He trotted to the sideline already trailing by two points – having never touched the ball!The idea, to beat Denver, was to keep Manning...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 2, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Super routine of the NFL’s Mr. Nice GuyNEW YORK Here is how the day will go. Peyton Manning will wake up in his hotel room. Bluebirds will circle his head. They will sing. He will walk down the hallway and knock on doors. “Come on, sleepyheads,” he...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 19, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
She was born just a few years after the Wright brothers invented the airplane. She was a baby when the Titanic sailed in 1912. She was a schoolgirl during World War I and a grown woman by the time the stock market crashed in 1929.Her husband fought in a segregated...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 15, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
He’ll be the Lions’ first African-American head coach in a city that is largely African American, and Tony Dungy, a really good guy, called on his behalf, and he has been to the big game several times. But beyond that, there is not much to excite fans over...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 15, 2014 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Four years ago today, the earth shook in Haiti. It lasted less than a minute. By the time the trembling stopped, death had already begun.Many were killed instantly, by collapsed buildings, oncoming cars, falling pipes, girders, walls. Others died in the days that...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 2, 2014 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
MSU flashbackIn ’88 Rose Bowl, Perles’ gang ends Big Ten’s droughtThis column originally ran in the Detroit Free Press on Jan.2, 1988.PASADENA, Calif. They had the ball! They had the ball! Todd Krumm was cradling it, dancing with it, raising it above...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 31, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
MITCH ALBOM: Schwartz is gone, but those who picked him will choose successorCan Lions finally get it right?By MITCH ALBOMNo win, no stay. It’s been that way elsewhere in the NFL, and it is finally true here in Lions Land. Jim Schwartz is gone. Fired Monday....
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