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Drew
Sharp,
longtime
Detroit
sports
columnist,
dies at
56
DETROIT
- The
Detroit
Free
Press
says
sports
columnist
Drew
Sharp
has
died. He
was 56.
The
newspaper
says
Sharp
died
Friday
at his
home in
Bloomfield
Hills, a
Detroit
suburb.
No other
details
were
immediately
released.
Karen
Sharp
says her
husband
“loved
his job
more
than
anything.”
Sharp
spent
decades
at the
Free
Press,
joining
the
paper as
a sports
writer
in 1983.
When he
was
named a
columnist
in 1999,
Sharp
told
readers
that his
job
wasn’t
to
“blindly
lead
cheers”
or
simply
“slam”
people
from his
perch.
But he
said he
had a
responsibility
to
“raise
questions
and
express
doubts.”
His last
column
this
week was
about
Michigan
State’s
basketball
team.
Sharp
covered
the
Detroit
Pistons
for
years
before
becoming
a
columnist.
The team
expressed
condolences.
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