by Mitch Albom | Jan 6, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
We’ve got a quarterback.No matter what happens Saturday night in New Orleans, no matter what unfolds in this first Lions playoff season since the last millennium, Detroit fans can say that sentence and take comfort in it.We’ve got a quarterback.It is no...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 18, 2011 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
It’s time to report back.This year, in this column space, we made efforts to help those less fortunate by starting or boosting several charities.I wrote their stories. You came to their aid.Here’s progress you should be proud of:Mother Batie’s Soup...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 11, 2011 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
He is a most unlikely Santa Claus.At 19, he was drafted and shipped to Vietnam. Things happened. He came home changed. His mind paid a price. His body paid one, too.”I kind of went into a shell,” says Bill Doebler, 61, sitting at a table in Clinton...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 4, 2011 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Wait long enough, and a study will be published confirming you were right.So it was this past week when a Pew Research Center project revealed that on any given day, more than half of Americans ages 18-29 go on the Internet for “no particular reason.”Aha!I...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 27, 2011 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Church stories are usually for Sunday mornings. But tonight — Sunday night — there will be a certain church story shown nationwide on ABC, and it’s pretty special because it started right here, in Detroit, with a drop of rain.As the years passed, the...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 22, 2011 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
MVP. More Verlander, Please.Turns out one award wasn’t enough. The Cy Young was just an opener. Justin Verlander, the best hurler in the game, just won the American League MVP, the first time in 25 years a guy has done it from the starting pitcher’s...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 21, 2011 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Kevin Smith took his final handoff, cut into traffic, lost two defenders and scampered into the end zone for a touchdown, the 48th point of the Detroit offense, and the major point of the whole afternoon.If Kevin can, the Lions can, too. Come back, that is.Smith,...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 21, 2011 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
It emerges every November. From an oven. From a mold. From a casserole dish. It is lime green or beet red or marshmallow white. It has olives or bananas or diced pimentos. It elicits cheers or boos, “mmm” or “yechh,” but no one is...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 21, 2011 | Comment, Detroit Free Press, Sports
Imagine you were one of them.Imagine you were 10 years old. A coach you trusted. A man you liked. A guy with white hair. An older person.Imagine he led you. Imagine you listened. Imagine you didn’t want to. Imagine you did what you were told.Imagine the setting....
by Mitch Albom | Nov 10, 2011 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
The story is not Joe Paterno. The story is not his abruptly announced retirement Wednesday – or the raging debate over whether he should coach the remaining games this season. When a scandal erupts, the American way is always to howl for a scalp.But the scalp...
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