by Mitch Albom | Nov 26, 2023 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Thrillers aren’t thrillers until the hero gets in trouble. And everything that happened until the third quarter in the Big House thriller Saturday, when Zak Zinter went down with a knee injury so gruesome Fox wouldn’t show it on TV, was just buildup. After...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 12, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press, News
Mitch Albom’s new novel, “The Little Liar” is inspired by true events. It begins with an 11-year-old boy named Nico Krispis who has never told a lie in his life. When the Nazis invade his city, they take him from his family and trick him into telling the biggest...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 12, 2023 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — They announced the attendance for Saturday’s game as 110,856, the second largest crowd in the history of Beaver Stadium. No surprise. Everyone wants to see an execution. And that’s what critics were hoping for, wasn’t it? Jim Harbaugh,...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 10, 2023 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
J.J. McCarthy wore figure skates — once. His mother, a former figure skater herself, got him to try a pair. He went on the ice and “kept falling on my face.” So he made an announcement: “I’m not wearing those things anymore.” He was 5 years old. Near as I can...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 5, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Nearly 20 years after he was fired by Indiana University, Bob Knight was asked by Dan Patrick about going back to be recognized for the 29 years he put in at the school. Knight refused. “I have absolutely no respect for those people …” he said. “I hope they’re...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 29, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
It’s pretty clear we as a country are not budging on gun ownership. If we weren’t moved to action by the mass shooting in Maine this past week (18 dead, 13 wounded), or the one at a mall in Texas in May (nine dead, seven wounded), or the one...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 22, 2023 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
It felt less like a football game than a fraternity prank, where the upperclassmen leave the pledges in their underwear, in the cold, in the middle of a corn field. It was 28-0 at halftime, 42-0 after three quarters, and backups-to-the-backups making it 49-0 just...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 22, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
In the summer of 1942, on a hot July morning in Thessaloniki, Greece, all Jewish men between the ages of 18 and 45 were ordered to gather in the main square. No one knew why. This was a Saturday, and most had planned to be in synagogue, observing their faith....
by Mitch Albom | Oct 15, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
We’ve been thinking a lot about life and death lately. Terrorists murdered hundreds of civilians in Israel last weekend, including babies and grandmothers, and the carnage horrified the world. Missiles flew. War was declared. It was the kind of thing...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 8, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
When it comes to hair, some men have a sense of adventure. I am not one of them. While others shave the sides, gather it in ponytails, or dye it blue, I am boring. Predictable. I have had the same haircut since college. You can compare photos of me today with those...
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