by Mitch Albom | Jun 7, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
I’ve been watching the NBA playoffs and I have to say, I’m really enjoying them, even though I believe Shaquille O’Neal is only on the broadcasts to prove how large a man can fit on how small a barstool. And if Kevin Garnett pounds his chest one more...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 3, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
It sounds relatively harmless. Synthetic marijuana. Like pot for people who don’t want to get arrested.For a while, that’s kind of how it worked. Hiding under the guise of “natural” herbal ingredients, with labels like “organic” and...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 1, 2012 | Detroit Free Press
The Ice Man melteth.It took 20 seasons, but those steel blue eyes began to water. The voice quivered. He was out of his element, wearing a suit, not a sweater, in front of a news conference, not a raucous arena, with notes in his hand, not a stick. And he was saying...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 1, 2012 | Detroit Free Press
The Ice Man melteth.It took 20 seasons, but those steel blue eyes began to water. The voice quivered. He was out of his element, wearing a suit, not a sweater, in front of a news conference, not a raucous arena, with notes in his hand, not a stick. And he was saying...
by Mitch Albom | May 31, 2012 | Detroit Free Press
A hole just formed on the blue line of Detroit sports.Nicklas Lidstom is retiring.It had to happen, even if we didn’t want it to happen. For the last few years, Red Wings fans have been begging the captain for one more season, the way children beg for five more...
by Mitch Albom | May 29, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
I’m not talking.Not to a phone.It may be all the rage for celebrities in iPhone commercials to have pithy exchanges with Siri, the female-sounding voice assistant, but if you ask me, they just sound stupid.Like actress Zooey Deschanel, in her pajamas, telling...
by Mitch Albom | May 20, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
He is a famous gospel singer, a TV star, a pastor who gave the stirring eulogy at Whitney Houston’s funeral.That didn’t stop several men from attacking him at a Detroit gas station in broad daylight Wednesday, roughing him up and stealing his SUV, his...
by Mitch Albom | May 20, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
He laughs with a teammate and pulls on a pair of black shorts. It’s nearly a quarter way through the season, and the Prince is feeling comfortable on his throne – well, OK, his locker chair – even if he and the Tigers haven’t exactly set the...
by Mitch Albom | May 13, 2012 | Detroit Free Press
When I first saw the new Time magazine cover of a nearly 4-year-old boy nursing on his mother’s exposed breast, I must admit it made me nostalgic. For a time when they wrapped magazines in brown paper.I’m no mothering expert, but I do believe, as a general...
by Mitch Albom | May 6, 2012 | Detroit Free Press
There was a movie not too long ago, based on a book called “I Don’t Know How She Does It.” It was about a working mother juggling a high-powered job, a demanding family and endless obligations.I don’t know how she does it. I found myself...
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