Drew Sharp: Clown or Columnist?
There’s this guy in Detroit who covers sports for The Detroit Free Presswith a cynical slant. Drew Sharp is tired of the losing in Motown and fed up with teams that don’t have game. And by the way, he wants to make a run at Michael Wilbon, Stephen A. Smith or Jason Whitlock as a leading African-American sports voice. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have the game.
He seems to be okay when he has time to think up controversial ideas for his column, like he did this week when he said the Lions should trade young star wide receiver Calvin Johnson. Sharp believes the Lions are eleven players away from competing and that trading Johnson will get the them the picks they need to get there.
He’s not quite as good as a regular on Jim Rome’s ESPN show. He has some trouble thinking on his feet, which is a requirement of TV, and mostly comes off as a crackpot. You can always expect him to spout out about a negative position…Tiger is done as an adman…Notre Dame is a joke…Rich Rodriguez is wrong for Michigan…the Tigers shouldn’t have traded Granderson. He’s the guy, that while everyone is bonding together in sympathy for the loss of Badboy Bengal, Chris Henry, wrote the column pointing out all his transgressions and called for not deifying Henry, instead linking him to Pacman Jones and Michael Vick.
Sharp is far from being a leading voice. The Lions need three guys on offense and maybe three on defense. Tiger will come back, as will Notre Dame and Michigan. Granderson couldn’t hit lefties or in the stretch and Chris Henry is a cautionary tale, one of hundreds of young, wealthy and talented American kids, who was snuffed out too early.
What Detroit needs now is someone who looks at things like the glass is half full. There is misery there and Drew Sharp writes about it and in doing so becomes part of the problem. Its time to turn it around.
