by Mitch Albom | Dec 29, 2013 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Apple bites into our holiday humanityMisunderstood.It’s a word we use to make ourselves feel better. It’s a virtual anthem to teenagers. And it is the latest marketing maneuver by Apple, which seeks to own Christmas in a way not even the Grinch imagined.By...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 23, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
A lump of goal. An empty stocking. Meaningful football just took the rest of the year off in Detroit. In a game Sunday that, for a while, nobody seemed to want, the New York Giants finally looked at the Ford Field scoreboard, saw a fourth down in overtime, and...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 23, 2013 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
For 33 years, he had carried the regret, an apology never delivered, an anchor on his heart. Ray Anderson would see his victim sometimes, in the news, occasionally on television. Once or twice, they were even in the same room.But he never confessed.Now it was time.A...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 17, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
You know that dream you have when you’re on stage, in front of a huge crowd – in your underwear?Welcome to Monday night at Ford Field, where the crowd was big, the TV audience bigger, and the home team belly flop was looking like the biggest of all. When...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 15, 2013 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Thirty-seven stabs. Thirty-seven cuts by a knife. Two to his throat. Six to his spine. Seven to his shoulder. A slice to his abdomen that ripped him open like a fish.Kevin Ramsby lay on the floor of his Highland Park home, bleeding out, waiting to die. It was 3 a.m.,...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 9, 2013 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
The death of Nelson Mandela brought tears and tributes. He was hailed as a beloved icon, an inspiration to millions, a folk hero of epic proportions. He inspired songs, movies and several generations of activism.President Barack Obama said, “He no longer belongs to us...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 9, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
PHILADELPHIA — LeSean McCoy went dashing through the snow, past Nick and Louis and DeAndre and Ndamukong and Dancer and Prancer and Donner and Blitzen. He hit winter pay dirt, again and again, as the Lions, in embarrassing fashion, lost the giant slalom...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 1, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
No guts, no story. Michigan took a giant chance in the dying sunshine of Saturday afternoon, trying to rewrite its season in the final paragraph. Having just scored to pull within 42-41 of undefeated and third-ranked Ohio State, the Wolverines pushed all the chips to...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 23, 2013 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Well, now, this could be fun. They are thinking of allowing cell phone calls on airplanes.This, because you don’t already feel like you’re sitting in the next person’s lap.This, because you’re not already ignoring the flight attendants.This, because obviously — with...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 22, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
“It is what it is.”That was a favorite Prince Fielder expression. He’d shrug and say, “It is what it is.” After a slump. After a strikeout. After a botched play. “It is what it is.” He’d also say, “Nah” or...
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