by Mitch Albom | Nov 21, 2008 | Detroit Free Press
Try to read this column, and try to understand it, because there are young men out there who can do neither. College students. At least that’s what they’re called. They’re really just football and basketball players dressed in school colors.
For four years, they’re squeezed like a tube of toothpaste. And then they’re left on the sink.
Education is an accident. If it happens at all.
by Mitch Albom | Apr 3, 1996 | Detroit Free Press
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The throne of college basketball came home Monday night — to Kentucky, where grandfathers still weep happily at Wildcats victories, and children still dribble in rainwater up to their ankles, shooting at lonely rims hung on county...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 2, 1995 | Detroit Free Press
SEATTLE — It always surprises me when a college basketball player gets to major in economics. After all, economics teaches supply and demand. And why would a school want its star athletes to figure that out? Eventually, even the most dimwitted ballplayer could...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 31, 1995 | Detroit Free Press
SEATTLE — I’ve been trying to call Rumeal Robinson for days. His agents have been trying, too. He reportedly flew from Argentina to Atlanta — he took part in the Pan Am Games — and nobody has heard from him since. You call his house, the phone...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 12, 1986 | Detroit Free Press
THE LIVE ALBOM* Let’s see. A cup of hot chocolate, a seat cushion, a Corvette, six cheerleaders, a job for your sister, four free plane tickets and an envelope full of complimentary tickets.* Everyone ready for college football? * I hope the NCAA employs a...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 2, 1986 | Detroit Free Press
DALLAS — The game comes back over your first cup of coffee. Why wasn’t Johnny Dawkins shooting the ball in the final minutes? Where did Louisville’s Pervis Ellison come from? How could Duke miss so many?This is the morning after, and the lobby is...
