oprah winfrey presents mitch albom's for one more day 2007

That same year he re-encountered Morrie Schwartz, a former college professor who was dying of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. EST) and appears regularly on ESPN Sports Reporters and SportsCenter. He currently hosts a daily talk show on WJR radio (airs Monday through Friday, 5-7 p.m. He moved to Detroit in 1985, where he became a nationally-acclaimed sports journalist at the Detroit Free Press and one of the best-known media figures in that city’s history, working in newspapers, radio and television. His first full time newspaper job was as a feature writer and eventual sports columnist for The Fort Lauderdale News and Sun Sentinel in Florida. Mitch eventually turned full-time to his writing, working as a freelance sports journalist in New York for publications such as Sports Illustrated, GEO, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. During this time, he paid his tuition partly through work as a piano player. He eventually returned to graduate school, earning a Master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, followed by an MBA from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. In his early 20’s, while living in New York, he took an interest in journalism and volunteered to work for a local weekly paper, the Queens Tribune. He also wrote and produced the recording of several songs. One of his engagements during this time included a taverna on the Greek island of Crete, in which he was a featured American performer who sang Elvis Presley and Ray Charles songs. He earned a bachelor’s degree in 1979 at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, majoring in sociology, but stayed true to his dream of a life in music, and upon graduation, he worked for several years as a performer, both in Europe and America. After attending high schools in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, he left for college after his junior year.

He taught himself to play piano, and played in bands, including The Lucky Tiger Grease Stick Band, throughout his adolescence. Mitch grew up wanting to be a cartoonist before switching to music.

area briefly before settling in Oaklyn, New Jersey, not far from Philadelphia. Mitch was born on in Passaic, New Jersey, the middle of three children to Rhoda and Ira Albom.

Oprah winfrey presents mitch albom's for one more day 2007