MITCH ALBOM

Source: www.moreover.com --- 7 days ago
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Source: www.freep.com --- 23 days ago
Sports writers MITCH ALBOM, Nicholas J. Cotsonika and Drew Sharp take their best shots each week at predicting the NFL's winners and losers. Their choices are made against the Glantz-Culver line. (Home teams capitalized.) ...

Source: www.freep.com --- 21 days ago
I had a dollar. I put it in the bank. "Are you crazy?" someone said. "Banks barely pay interest. Put it in a CD. That's where you make money." So I put it in a CD. I made some money. And I put the new money into more CDs. ...

Source: www.freep.com --- 29 days ago
After three weeks of the Rich Rod era, U-M has two losses, one unimpressive victory and the Big Ten season looming. So what uplifting thought can we offer? Only the kid who wears No. 2. ...

Source: www.freep.com --- 27 days ago
The season is already on the brink for the Lions. So either this franchise finds the men and the attitude that will start and finish a winning effort, or it starts charging for the opponents' self-esteem. ...

Source: www.freep.com --- 20 days ago
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Source: www.freep.com --- 38 days ago
Bill Davidson is ready to go. He sits behind his desk, holding his arms, and before I can fully sit down, he grins and says, "OK, let's start." ...

Source: www.freep.com --- 40 days ago
The summer's over, the kids are back to school and the NFL's first snap is just a day away. Obviously, it's time for the Lions to hire their running backs. Hello, Rudi Johnson and Marcus Thomas. Good-bye, Tatum Bell and Aveion Cason. ...

Source: www.freep.com --- 41 days ago
All roses, no thorns. National champions? Hail, yes. "We had to fight to the last second," said an exhausted Brian Griese, who was selected the game's most outstanding player after his three touchdown passes led Michigan's 21-16 victory over Washington State, a victory that leaves the Wolverines 12-0 for the season, and should earn them the national championship after the Orange Bowl tonight. "I never could have dreamed of an ending like this." ...

Source: www.freep.com --- 36 days ago
Today is the first day of football season, and I will watch the game from a press box. I have enjoyed this perch for decades now, but there was a time when it was the furthest thing from my mind. That memory came back to me last week, sadly, when I got the news: Ed Guthman had died at 89. ...

Source: www.freep.com --- 35 days ago
Did that really happen? Was it really that awful? Shut it down before it worsens. It's a joke. It's a tragedy. It's as depressing as the Kwame thing, but not as interesting. There are few truisms in the NFL, but one of them is this: When the Atlanta Falcons put a whupping on you, it's time to close shop. ...

Source: www.freep.com --- 20 days ago
When the owner's son says he thinks you should be canned, you might want to pull out your suitcase. ...

Source: www.freep.com --- 18 days ago
I mean, I know people wanted Matt Millen gone. I know Millen deserved to be gone. I know now that Millen IS gone, some people are dancing around campfires singing, "Ding dong! The witch is dead." But I still say this. And? ...

Source: www.freep.com --- 21 days ago
The Lions are becoming the NFL's answer to banana cream in the face, a clown at a carnival, the mule you kick, the man you dunk by throwing a baseball at a lever and — splash! — down he goes. ...

Source: www.freep.com --- 34 days ago
This is why I never watch the exhibition season. Did that really happen? Was it really that awful? Shut it down before it worsens. It's a joke. It's a tragedy. It's as depressing as the Kwame thing, but not as interesting. ...

Source: www.freep.com --- 40 days ago
The summer's over, the kids are back to school and the NFL's first snap is just a day away. Obviously, it's time for the Lions to hire their running backs. ...

Source: www.freep.com --- 18 days ago
Editor's note: This story originally ran on Jan. 10, 2001. ...

Source: www.freep.com --- 15 days ago
Remember this game. Or at the very least, that play, with Thompson thundering to the end zone, swarmed by his teammates, blue on blue on blue on blue. It may be just another highlight. Or it may be something much, much more. ...

Source: www.freep.com --- 38 days ago
Soon this whole thing will fade behind the brighter light of this truth: One man is not bigger than the city he governs. ...

Source: www.freep.com --- 14 days ago
It's easy to tell others how to parent their kids. But until you've been in the home, heard the screaming, watched the behavior, felt the pain, you're not entitled to a full opinion. ...