by Mitch Albom | Oct 10, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Verlander & Co. have one night to redo endingWe do not remember what we choose to forget. Jhonny Peralta was, for much of the season, a cheat, a rule-breaker, suspended from the game as a persona non grata. But Tuesday night, he was a hero. With one home run, he...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 8, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
MITCH ALBOM: Despite smack talk in ninth inning, toothless Tigers on the brink of eliminationOne went high and into the seats. One landed in the leftfield bullpen. One flew out so fast that Torii Hunter didn’t even move in rightfield, just stood there and gaped...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 7, 2013 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
I work around drunk people. I always have. My earliest jobs were as a musician in nightclubs. I once played piano in a dive bar where I was told by the owner that if any customers wanted to sing, I had to play along with them, no matter how wasted they were. One guy...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 6, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
MITCH ALBOM: Michigan opens Big Ten by alternately looking great and looking mediocre; where’s the truth lie? When we last left the Michigan Wolverines, they were struggling under the moon in the powerhouse football state of, um, Connecticut, trying to beat a...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 2, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
The Tigers passed their first playoff test Tuesday without breaking a sweat – making a hard decision look easy, united and smart.”The rotation is gonna be Scherzer, Verlander, Sanchez and Fister,” Jim Leyland announced, just seconds into his first...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 29, 2013 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
I took a car trip through the South last week. Driving along a two-lane Alabama road, my companion and I passed something called a Pecan Farm. We decided to stop in.I have never been to a Pecan Farm, or, for that matter, any farm for nuts, although as kids we thought...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 23, 2013 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
In Missouri, two men got into an argument over a gambling debt. Later, the winner was flaunting the gold watch that the loser had used to pay him. So the loser pulled a gun and shot the winner dead.In Kansas, two men were arguing over politics in a bar. One got so...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 23, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. Maybe it wasn’t a one-week cold. Maybe it’s a monthlong fever. Whatever it is, the Michigan Wolverines have it bad, and even as they win games they are tumbling backward – in what was supposed to be the romping part of their...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 17, 2013 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
What will they say about you when you’re gone?I attended a funeral this past week of a woman named Sarah Lewis, the widow of my childhood rabbi, Albert Lewis. A 92-year-old pillar of her community, she was eloquent, brilliant, devoted and religious.The service...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 17, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
GLENDALE, Ariz. It was like having to give your Christmas present back, just when you were having so much fun playing with it.Reggie Bush was all over the place in Week 1, and the Lions looked unstoppable.He left the game in Week 2, and the Lions looked unmovable.Over...
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