by Mitch Albom | Feb 2, 2023 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Hello, Tom Brady? It’s me, retirement. Let me start by saying: “You again?” Most people retire once. Oh, not everyone. Sinatra didn’t. Streisand. Garth Brooks. Lots of athletes; Michael Jordan, George Foreman, Brett Favre. Sometimes, it works out. Most of the...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 2, 2022 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
We always knew we’d be summing up Tom Brady’s career one day when he finally — finally — called it quits. On Tuesday, when the 44-year old Brady made it official, writers across the nation plopped down to put the most stellar career in NFL history into words....
by Mitch Albom | Oct 5, 2020 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
It’s probably a good thing the Lions didn’t have fans inside Ford Field on Sunday. The fewer witnesses, the better. This was sad, lifeless, sometimes cringeworthy defensive football, bad tackling, no tackling, low resistance, no resistance. Please don’t...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 12, 2020 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
We must consider why DeSean Jackson’s anti-Semitic comments drew less outrage than other types of hateful language.
by Mitch Albom | Apr 24, 2020 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
As big-time sporting events go, it was more transistor radio than virtual reality. But in the end, a draft is just a team making a pick. And low-tech or high-tech, the Lions made the pick that wasn’t surprising, wasn’t earthshaking, but filled a need with...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 3, 2020 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — I’m not certain what destiny looks like in person. But I think we just saw it in the Super Bowl. In the fourth quarter of a game that was clearly tilting to the San Francisco 49ers, on a night when he did not at all look like the superstar...
by mitchalbom_webmaster | Feb 26, 2019 | News
Finalists in the Michigan Associated Press Media Editors 2018 newspaper contest were announced today. The top three places — the awards in order of finish — will be announced at the annual awards banquet in Lansing on April 28. Mitch Albom’s column in the...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 4, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
ATLANTA — They were coming, the Rams, like kids running down a hill, giddy with their speed, going faster in the fourth quarter than they had all night. Jared Goff, who’d been terribly out of sync, was momentarily sharp, Clark Kent in a phone booth, and he moved his...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 3, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Don’t ask us. That’s my stock answer to The Tom Brady Question. True, he played college ball right down the road at Michigan. And true, when someone becomes the greatest NFL quarterback of all time — and if Brady leads the New England Patriots to a sixth Super Bowl...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 29, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
“Who are you to judge?” It’s the question that shadows the NFL draft. TV experts make predictions. TV experts get it wrong. Viewers laugh, “Who are you to judge?” Player waits. Player doesn’t get selected. Player snarls, “Who are you to judge?” Team...