by Mitch Albom | Aug 7, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
One by one, fans held up the pink K’s, until they needed a baker’s dozen just to keep them aloft. Yankee strikes out. Yankee strikes out again. How many is that? Seven? Nine? Ten? Twelve?Finally, Ichiro Suzuki lurched after a pitch so badly it looked as if...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 5, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
They were homes once, but they are homes no longer. They are hollow dangers. Hiding places. Drug houses.They are lurching shadows that stare down our city’s children as they walk to school. There’s a real home; there’s a shell of a house....
by Mitch Albom | Jul 29, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
She always stood tall, even when sitting in a wheelchair, and when they rolled her through her soup kitchen, everyone looked up. That’s how you felt when you spoke to her, like you were looking up. And that’s how she lived her life. Maude Batie is gone....
by Mitch Albom | Jul 24, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
As penalties go, it felt like a guillotine.That was the idea.Here is what the NCAA’s ruling does to Penn State. It costs it $60 million, plus mountains of scholarships and any bowls for the next four years. It wipes out every football victory since 1998. It...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 22, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
We were coming out of a movie theater. There were four of us. This was Thursday, just about midnight. “Hey, we could go see the Batman premiere,” one of us said. We looked at one another. It was tempting – to be so spontaneous, to act so young, to...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 22, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Inning after inning, Rick Porcello left the mound slowly, deliberately, watching his feet the way a Swiss watchmaker watches his hands. But when the top of the ninth came around, Porcello paused in the dugout to see if Jim Leyland would tell him “you’re...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 20, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
At a time when everyone wants to talk about the team the Tigers could be, it’s best to focus on the team they are.Trade talk is fine, fun and, most of the time, pointless. What will happen will happen, and maybe nothing will happen. A new starting pitcher? A new...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 20, 2012 | Detroit Free Press
At a time when everyone wants to talk about the team the Tigers could be, it’s best to focus on the team they are.Trade talk is fine, fun and, most of the time, pointless. What will happen will happen, and maybe nothing will happen. A new starting pitcher? A new...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 15, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Last week, my father, who is 83, suffered a medical emergency. At the hospital, he was asked this question: “How many pills do you take?”His answer: aspirin and Zocor. “That’s it?” came the reply.Days later, after he’d been...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 8, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
If I were king of the world, I would insist on a moratorium for Hollywood marriages: no talking about them until their 10th anniversary. No photos. No magazine covers. No gossip page items. No selling the video rights.Actors, rock stars, famous celebrities, reality TV...
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