For the next few minutes, your name is John, OK? And you are a coach. And you have been losing. And you are walking off the court. And this is what you hear:"Hey, John! You suck!""Hey, John! I saw your wife last night and I --- her!""Hey, John! You can ---- my ---, you ---!"How do you like it? What are you thinking? Are you thinking, "I make a lot of money, so I don't hear any of this"? Or are you starting to seethe?"Hey, John! Your mother is a --- sack of ---!""Hey, John! You look like a --- load of ---!"
One of the nice things to come out of Sept. 11 was a breakup in America's love affair with celebrities.For a few reasonable weeks, in the aftermath of the World Trade Center rubble, the idea of who some movie star was dating seemed beyond silly.It seemed insulting.
'We are more alike than different." My old professor, Morrie Schwartz, told me that.We were sitting in his home, watching the TV news, Morrie under a blanket, dying from ALS, his body already decayed beyond hope.The fighting then was in Bosnia. We saw awful images, death and destruction. Morrie began to cry."What's wrong?" I asked."This is so terrible," he whispered."Well, of course," I said, embarrassed, "but you don't know any of those people. Why are you crying?"
People try their whole lives to get on Jay Leno's "Tonight Show." So you could say the Lions are the envy of the nation.The Lions don't see it that way. JAY: Later this month, Britney Spears is playing Detroit. She's a two-touchdown favorite over the Lions! Ba-dum-bump.JAY: The Lions lost again. They're 0-11. No. Wait. They're 0-10. . . . On SUNDAY, they'll be 0-11.Heyy-ooo!
Mitch Albom writes about running an orphanage in impoverished Port-au-Prince, Haiti, his kids, their hardships, laughs and challenges, and the life lessons he’s learned there every day.
