by Mitch Albom | Feb 6, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press, Sports
I attended my first Winter Olympics nearly 40 years ago in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, a city about the size of Wichita. I drove a rental car and parked it outside the journalists’ village. I never used that car during the Games. There were buses to take you everywhere. Or...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 23, 2021 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
The first Olympic Games I covered were in an alpine village in a country that no longer exists. Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, was a cheery place in 1984, despite limited resources, a town where you drank with the locals late at night and where, during the opening...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 1, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Today’s column will surprise the first person who reads it. That’s because the first person to read my column — for pretty much the last 25 years — has been my editor, my boss and my friend, Gene Myers. Who will retire once he edits this last one. It’s not my fault (I...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 9, 2013 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
PHILADELPHIA — LeSean McCoy went dashing through the snow, past Nick and Louis and DeAndre and Ndamukong and Dancer and Prancer and Donner and Blitzen. He hit winter pay dirt, again and again, as the Lions, in embarrassing fashion, lost the giant slalom...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 3, 2013 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Here’s why people get so upset at lip-synching. When I was a teenager, I was in a band. One summer we got a “gig” (translation: any performance outside my parents’ basement). It was an outdoor party, on a beach not far from Atlantic City, N.J....
by Mitch Albom | Feb 3, 2013 | Detroit Free Press
Here’s why people get so upset at lip-synching. When I was a teenager, I was in a band. One summer we got a “gig” (translation: any performance outside my parents’ basement). It was an outdoor party, on a beach not far from Atlantic City, N.J....
by Mitch Albom | Dec 9, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free Press, Sports
Stick to sports.I’ve heard it often. So have many of my colleagues. NBC’s Bob Costas just heard it in spades.Costas focused his halftime commentary last Sunday night on the horrific murder-suicide involving Jovan Belcher.The Kansas City Chiefs linebacker,...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 6, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
INDIANAPOLIS – He did it in the desert. Now he did it in a dome. Eli Manning stepped back late in another Super Bowl, launched the football high, and once again saw it come down in the hands of a receiver who, to the naked eye, never should have been able to...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 5, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Remember the movie “Heaven Can Wait,” where Warren Beatty’s spirit inhabits a rich man’s body, quarterbacks a football team and wins the big game?Today, we remake it. And you are the star. The body you inhabit is Tom Brady’s. The game is...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 14, 2010 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
I’ve been on a luge sled. And I’ve crashed.I’ve felt my jaw vibrate as my helmet dribbled on the ice. Felt my shoulders smack against the walls of a straightaway. Felt the discombobulation of looking down over your feet as you try desperately to...
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