by Mitch Albom | Nov 8, 2020 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
There’s an old song that describes the blahs as feeling “like a horse that never left the post.” So it goes for Michigan football in 2020. Fans keep waiting for the thoroughbred to run. Meanwhile, in most significant ways, this year’s race is already over....
by Mitch Albom | Nov 1, 2020 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
My editors asked if I planned to write about the election this Sunday and I said yes. Perhaps they hoped I would pen something about the need to vote, a topic I’ve tackled before. But that seems unnecessary. Look at how many people have already voted. We all know the...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 1, 2020 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Now that’s how you enter a rivalry. Ride into the other guy’s town, kick the doors in, and yell, “Howdy!” New coach Mel Tucker had exactly one performance under his belt at Michigan State, a forgettable seven-turnover loss to lowly Rutgers, before...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 18, 2020 | Detroit Free Press, Comment, Sports
Mel Tucker used to drive Nick Saban around. This was 23 years ago, when Saban was the head football coach at Michigan State and Tucker was a first-year graduate assistant. He would marvel at how Saban, sitting next to him, could wedge a briefcase beneath his...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 11, 2020 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
To the outside world, it looks like Michigan had a bad week. When 13 of our fellow Americans are arrested for plotting to kidnap our governor, well, that’s not an image we want exported to the rest of the world. The fact that some of those men were...
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 | Oct 4, 2020 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
Now everyone knows someone who has coronavirus. When President Trump sent a simple tweet at 1 a.m. Friday morning — “Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19” — it was akin to trumpets bringing down the walls of Jericho. There was no more denying the enemy...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 27, 2020 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
On Wednesday, at the same time a Kentucky attorney general was announcing findings in the Breonna Taylor case, a small group of men and women gathered on Detroit’s east side to eat some barbecue they had cooked outside together. And as cities across America saw...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 20, 2020 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
I am not a woman. That’s obvious. But it didn’t keep me from admiring Ruth Bader Ginsburg for years, her courage, her tenacity, her firm belief in being a fair jurist and standing up for issues she believed in. I am not a lawyer. And I did not agree with all...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 17, 2020 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
If there was any doubt as to whether college football was the tail or the dog when it comes to Big Ten universities, we now know the answer. Wag, wag. Ruff, ruff. The Big Ten reversed field Wednesday as fast as a greyhound chasing a loose rabbit, veering away from...
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