by Mitch Albom | Aug 18, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment, Sports
It’s not that Michigan fans WANT to hate Ohio State. It’s that Ohio State keeps providing so many good reasons. Forget about the hiring of Urban Meyer as football coach, or the seven straight times he beat the Wolverines, or the fact that when he retired, the Buckeyes...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 11, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
I recently suffered a breakup. It was sad. It was crushing. We’d been together since freshman year in college. But now it’s over. And there’s no going back. It wouldn’t be healthy. We had a long relationship with wonderful memories. But things had to end. Love? There...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 28, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
You can force businesses to raise wages, but you can’t force them to keep workers. And study after study, expert after expert, shows that, eventually, the higher the wages demanded, the fewer positions there will be. Follow this to its logical conclusion, and at a...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 21, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment, Sports
It was the fax heard around the world. Barry Sanders, for the first and only time in his career, mailed it in. Through a piece of paper in a Wichita newspaper office, one of the greatest running backs in the history of football called it quits. Twenty years later,...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 23, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
When the story broke last week about a group of Colorado parents fighting each other at their children’s baseball game — and by fighting, I mean real punches, haymakers, bodies thrown to the ground — many people were shocked. I wasn’t. One thing any veteran...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 16, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
Most folks over 35 will agree, high school today isn’t the way they remember it. Here’s an example: two weeks ago, in what’s becoming a national trend, a California valedictorian named Nataly Buhr used parts of her speech to trash her school. “To my counselor, thank...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 9, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
This time, it’s not a hole in the roof. It’s a gap in the community. Ten years ago, I wrote about a church on Brainard and Trumbull, not far from old Tiger Stadium. It was holding services in the rain and snow — literally, in the rain and snow — because a large roof...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 2, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
When Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proudly signed the new auto no-fault insurance reform bill last week, she did so in broad daylight with the power elite on Mackinac Island. Too bad the bill itself was whipped together in the wee hours, hidden from any serious public debate,...
by Mitch Albom | May 23, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
People make this mistake about the Fab Five. They were not all the same guy. Not even close. Chris Webber and Jalen Rose, inseparable back then, were, personality wise, miles apart. Jimmy King and Ray Jackson were both from Texas, but the sameness ended there. And...
by Mitch Albom | May 19, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
Tonight is the final episode of “Game of Thrones.” This means nothing on a how-does-it-change-the-world scale, unless you are one of millions who have watched this show from the beginning, which I believe was the Paleolithic Era. In which case, it feels like it’s the...