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 mitchalbom_webmaster | 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...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 8, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
The Beard has landed. Matt Patricia arrived in Detroit on Wednesday to take over the Lions after spending weeks as the worst-kept hiring secret in the NFL. At first blush, the former Patriots defensive coordinator — fresh off Sunday’s Super Bowl — seemed intelligent,...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 5, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
MINNEAPOLIS — Cheesesteaks for everyone. Hoagies on every plate. It’s the City of Brotherly Shove now — defensive end Brandon Graham shoving the throwing arm of the great Tom Brady and popping the ball loose for the most unlikely conclusion to the most explosive Super...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 24, 2017 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
They kneeled, they held hands, they locked arms, they dropped heads, in one case, an entire team didn’t even take the field. A practice that started last year with one quarterback and one national anthem reached its most expansive level Sunday, across America and even...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 16, 2017 | Comment, Detroit Free Press, Sports
The way Calvin Johnson sees it, I’m surprised any of the Detroit Lions are showing up this season. Johnson pretty much trashed his former team during a news conference in Italy last week. From a guy who’s usually reserved and classy, it felt awkward. “I was stuck in...
