Detroit Free Press · Dec 12, 2015
Sharp: U-M folk hero Albrecht pained by call to retire
Michigan guard Spike Albrecht discusses the end of his college career Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. Video by Mark Snyder / DFP
Buy PhotoThe hardest admission for an athlete is acknowledging when it's over, when the body can no longer do what the mind tells it.
Spunky Spike Albrecht called it a basketball career Friday. He had no choice. There was too much pain, the residual aftermath of two hip surgeries within a month of each other during the off-season. There were times when the Michigan senior point guard couldn't get out of bed because both hips would lock up on him. There were endless nights of lost sleep and withering dreams.
"It hurt to admit it," Albrecht said, "but I had to walk away."
