by Mitch Albom | Oct 14, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
It worked once. So we’re doing it again.We are gathering a small army, fortified with plywood, ladders, nails and hope. We are gathering to do battle Oct.27, on a Saturday morning. The enemy has many members, all ugly and foreboding, decayed on the outside, dark...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 14, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
NEW YORK – Uh-oh. Not him!It was a collective plea, an ensemble gasp, a worry so loud from Detroit fans you could hear it all the way here in Yankee Stadium. After a wonderful night full of great defense, timely hits and incredible escape-artist pitching by Doug...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 8, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
You must remember this: A kiss is just a kiss, a fly is just a fly. But on this playoff Sunday at Comerica Park, Al Alburquerque delivered the former, Don Kelly delivered the latter, and the Tigers are suddenly up two games to none and heading west needing just one...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 7, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
They gave him the news when he was 9. It was a Thursday. In a doctor’s office. “You are a type 1 diabetic,” they said. His parents were taken aback. But all he could think was, “Can I still play my Little League game on Saturday?”He is 35...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 1, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
One week is a freak. Two weeks, you freak out. In a special-teams collapse of historic proportion, the Lions once again spent Sunday with their heads on a swivel, watching an opponent return kicks for scores – which, sadly, is also how they spent LAST Sunday....
by Mitch Albom | Sep 30, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Years ago, when e-mail became the rage, I went to my mother and encouraged her to use it. It would cut down on phone bills, I pointed out.”No,” she said.But, Mom, it’s not hard.”No.” I sighed. Why not?”Because I want to hear your...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 24, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Shaun Hill said “there was a miscommunication” and “I’ll take full responsibility for that.” Jim Schwartz said “that was a miscommunication” and “that’s my fault.” Mikel Lehsoure...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 23, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
I remember Carl Yastrzemski. All the kids followed him. It was 1967, the Summer of Love, but for boys sporting high top sneakers and baseball cards in our bicycle spokes, it was the summer of the Triple Crown – or another summer of the Triple Crown. Frank...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 17, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
SAN FRANCISCO – As we walked through the parking lot to Candlestick Park, the wind was so severe you had to lower your head. I wondered how the Lions were going to pass in a swirl like this.As it turns out, they didn’t plan to. On a Sunday night in San...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 16, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Over a film? Really? A film that was never distributed? A film that almost no one has seen? A film that had 14 minutes uploaded to YouTube? This tragedy is all over … that? So goes the American reaction to the violence last week that spread throughout the Arab...
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