Time is such a heartless thiefDecember 8, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, CommentDUBLIN, IRELAND — I am writing this from a Dublin hotel room. The weather is dark and dreary, thick clouds with a ...Read More
Michigan football’s sickening reality: Ohio State is just betterDecember 1, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, SportsThis is the hardest column to read if you are a Michigan football fan, and the hardest to write if ...Read More
Thanksgiving conversation may be tough to swallowNovember 24, 2019 | Comment, Detroit Free Press“I’d like to welcome everyone to our Thanksgiving meal. We’re so glad you all flew in from around the ...Read More
Michigan football didn’t just dominate Michigan State. It owned it.November 17, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, SportsJust before the final snap of what he called “the state championship,” Michigan football coach Jim ...Read More
Charles Rogers was a flash of talent and challengesNovember 12, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, SportsHe fell off the map and resurfaced in an obituary. The short, sad saga of Charles Rogers reached its final frame ...Read More
Web Exclusives: Read Excerpt from ‘Finding Chika’ and Watch This from CBS Sunday MorningNovember 3, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment, NewsPublished today in the Detroit Free Press! In 2013, author and Free Press columnist Mitch Albom admitted a ...Read More
Juwan Howard, Michigan basketball and the ‘beautiful road’ that reunited themNovember 3, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment, SportsThere were two days in Juwan Howard’s life that he chose Michigan. Both ended in tears. The first ...Read More
Detroit Lions flicked more than fleas off their back SundayOctober 28, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, SportsIt’s a play you draw up in the dirt as kids. You go out, I’ll throw it to you, you throw it back, and I’ll ...Read More
Inoffensive Halloween costume? Good luck with thatOctober 27, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, CommentThis happened every Halloween when I was a kid. The doorbell would ring, usually at night, when my siblings and I ...Read More
Detroit Lions fans wanted revenge, defense couldn’t deliverOctober 21, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, SportsDalvin Cook, who runs like a truck without brakes, bounced off of one Lion, ducked between two others and scooted ...Read More
Detroit Lions aren’t cursed. It’s just their inescapable luckOctober 16, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, SportsAs I got off an airplane Tuesday morning, a man leaned in and said, “Monday night was the first time I let my ...Read More
Price for the NBA in China? Its soulOctober 13, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, CommentIt was a short tweet. Only seven words. But it ripped the façade off of two giant forces, the Chinese government ...Read More