by Mitch Albom | Jan 29, 2024 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Once upon a time, starry-eyed dreamers came to California in search of gold. On Sunday afternoon, the most beleaguered franchise in NFL history brought its dream to the Golden State, put its pan in the water, thought it saw a bright, shiny...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 28, 2024 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
I was walking through Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Israel and one of the most haunting places in the world, when I stopped to listen to a video from an elderly female survivor. She was talking about the questions she got after the war, including...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 28, 2024 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
There’s a video of Alex Anzalone that surfaces every year about this time. He doesn’t like it. It is not a crashing tackle or a leaping interception. It’s Anzalone, then a New Orleans Saint, smashing his helmet to the ground in frustration at the end of the 2019 NFC...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 26, 2024 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Jim Harbaugh walked away from a dream job to take a job he couldn’t stop dreaming about. That’s all there is to say. There was never a doubt in the minds of those who knew him that Harbaugh would eventually return to the NFL, because he is not someone to leave...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 22, 2024 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Rookie running back Jahmyr Gibbs took the football on Tampa Bay’s 31-yard line and burst out like a cannon shot, a piece of Detroit’s future trying desperately to outrun its past. He shot through the line, then deftly cut left, and it was a foot race to the end zone,...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 21, 2024 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
It was Mae West who said, “All discarded lovers should be given a second chance — but with somebody else.” Which brings us to the crazy big football game in downtown Detroit this afternoon. It is a divisional playoff game, yes, the likes of which have not been...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 15, 2024 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Hear ye, hear ye, Detroit Lions fans. In the middle of a frozen January, our long cold winter is finally over. It expired less than an hour before midnight Sunday, when Jared Goff, after all his completions and all his pinpoint accuracy, made his favorite...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 14, 2024 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
“For one thrilling Sunday, it was perfect chaos, all these inspired men doing things they weren’t supposed to do, exploding like a silver-and-blue volcano after years of bubbling frustration. They took the ball and scored, they took it and scored again, and again, and...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 12, 2024 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
The last game he played in Ford Field, he threw for three touchdowns and nearly 300 yards — and lost by two points. That’s a microcosm of the bittersweet career Matthew Stafford put in during his long tenure as the Detroit Lions’ starting quarterback. With...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 9, 2024 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
HOUSTON — And then, all Hail broke loose. Mikey Sainristil intercepted a fourth-down pass, a desperate heave by Washington quarterback Michael Penix Jr. that landed right in Sainristil’s gut. He took off the other way, eyes widening. Ten yards. Twenty yards. Thirty...
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