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Dreams Deferred: An Even Tougher Battle
Detroit Free Press, Tuesday, Dec 23, 2008
The man who lost his toes to frostbite lays down on a mattress, and the man who lost his teeth to street fights checks the final name off his clipboard. The room quiets and the lights dim and Henry Covington, the pastor, who turned this church gym into a floor of hope at the bottom of the world, walks a rickety balcony and surveys the homeless men below. They say the meek will inherit the earth, ...
Dream Over
Detroit Free Press, Saturday, Oct 28, 2006
ST. LOUIS - In the end, they only could watch: watch balls go flying past their gloves, watch pitches go zipping past their bats, watch another team do the infield dance they had dreamed of doing once upon a time, when they were a hot team. You remember. A week ago? Come in from the rain. A full work week in St. Louis turned out to be as soggy and depressing as the clouds that never left the Mis...
Dreams Deferred 2000 Angela Jo Motz Left Her Baby In A Cardboard Box Two Days After He Was Born. And From Her Saga, There Are Lessons Parents And Children Can Learn
Detroit Free Press, Tuesday, Dec 26, 2000
Let's start with the act that got her in trouble, then we can deal with what made her do it. It was just after 7 a.m., and she had been driving aimlessly for hours. At one point, she had parked outside her high school, where she was due to graduate in a few weeks. She sat there in the dark. She was 18. Next to her, wrapped in towels, was the newborn baby nobody knew about. He was two days old. Wh...
From Bench, He Passes Along A Dream
Detroit Free Press, Sunday, May 18, 2003
If you look carefully during these Pistons playoff games, you will observe a small but remarkable ritual. After every buzzer, as the Pistons head back to the floor, reserve Danny Manning, once the greatest college basketball talent in the nation, taps fists with each man to urge them on....
3 ATHLETES, 3 TOWNS, SAME TERRIBLE FATE
Detroit Free Press, Saturday, Dec 29, 2001
Last in Mitch Albom's Dreams Deferred 2001 series on challenges for Michigan athletes and their families. Their son played football. Mom sat in the stands. She wore a team jersey and waved a...
A SOLDIER'S JOURNEY
Detroit Free Press, Wednesday, Dec 21, 2005
ABOUT THIS SERIES Mitch Albom's Dreams Deferred has been a holiday tradition in the Sports pages of the Free Press since 1994. The next installment - about Michigan athletes and their families - will appear next week. Let us begin at the end, a few weeks ago, when a Marine named Craig Watson came home from the Iraq war. He was accompanied by his best friend, a fellow Marine named Corey Dougl...
U-M'S 'PROP 48 KIDS' HAVE EVENED THE SCORE MILLS, ROBINSON PROVE THEY BELONG
Detroit Free Press, Saturday, Mar 17, 1990
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Nation!
Detroit Free Press, Tuesday, Apr 07, 2009
The beautiful run turned to a stumble, and like an oncoming hurricane, North Carolina caught the Spartans, blew through them, and left them flattened, so fast, so devastating, you almost expected to see ambulances at halftime. Heeled. This was not how Tom Izzo's guys wanted the nation to see them. Not with Kalin Lucas losing the ball, not with Goran Suton shooting at air, not with passes poppi...
I WAS ASHAMED' AFTER YEARS OF ABUSE, ILLITERACY, DEMERS CONFRONTS HIS DEMONS
Detroit Free Press, Monday, Dec 26, 2005
The beating began when he was 7 years old. His father, a drunk, would whack him with the back of his hand. He would scream insults....
Running To Beat The Odds
Detroit Free Press, Saturday, Dec 22, 2007
They enter the gym and peel off their winter clothes. The youngest one wears blue shorts, a white T-shirt and a silver cross around her neck. An older one keeps on his jacket and ski cap as he does jumping jacks. The lighting is dim, the rafters are dusty and snow is just outside the walls....
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