by Mitch Albom | Feb 26, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
She is in there somewhere. I can see her, behind her own eyes, which, after the strokes, always seem to be squinting. She grips the table and bites her lower lip. Often she looks away, as if observing an invisible fly. “Back here,” I say. “Back here,...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 19, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Whitney Houston is finally at peace. Which is far different than how she was treated for the six days after she died.During that time, Houston was hailed as an amazing performer. She was also dissected, analyzed, criticized and scrutinized by a steady parade of former...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 19, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Maybe the spell is already broken. Maybe Jeremy Lin’s glass slipper is turning back to a more standard shoe, Nike or Converse or something like that. His New York Knicks on Friday night finally lost a game with him as starting point guard – lost, at home,...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 15, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Twenty-one! Twenty-one!…”There was snow on the ground and empty streets throughout Detroit. Tuesday night in February is a hard sell for any business.”Twenty-one! Twenty-one!…”But inside Joe Louis Arena, it was buzzing like a summer...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 12, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
I found Cupid sitting in a cubicle.He was working on a computer. He wore a coat over his wings. I might never have recognized him if not for the chubby legs that didn’t reach the ground. Also, the bow and arrow on the floor.”What are you doing here?”...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 6, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
INDIANAPOLIS – He did it in the desert. Now he did it in a dome. Eli Manning stepped back late in another Super Bowl, launched the football high, and once again saw it come down in the hands of a receiver who, to the naked eye, never should have been able to...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 5, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
I came. I saw. I shaved.This was after five weeks of trying to grow a beard. You couldn’t really call it that, a beard. More like a collection of facial hair, some here, some there and none everywhere else. If my beard were clothing, it’d be jeans with...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 5, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Remember the movie “Heaven Can Wait,” where Warren Beatty’s spirit inhabits a rich man’s body, quarterbacks a football team and wins the big game?Today, we remake it. And you are the star. The body you inhabit is Tom Brady’s. The game is...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 25, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Big.You can’t avoid the word.Big deal. Big name. Big contract. Big man.Big money. Big risk. Big upside. Big story.”Big” is hardly a new adjective when it comes to Prince Fielder. Some of us remember him as an oversize schoolkid wandering around the...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 8, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
NEW ORLEANS – In the end, the defense broke down like a bayou jalopy, and one Saints receiver was so open, he had time to sprinkle sugar on his beignets before catching a bomb and scooting in for the touchdown.Blood? There was blood. Bruises? There were bruises....
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