Drew Sharp joined the Detroit Free Press in 1983 and served as the paper’s beat writer during the Pistons’ first two NBA championship seasons in 1989 and 1990. He also covered Michigan State University sports for eight years before becoming a columnist in 1999. Sharp is the only columnist in Detroit to have grown up in the city, giving him a unique first-person point of reference to the significant sports and political events in the city over the past five decades. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...Syracuse has discussed honoring its first accomplished basketball star in marble. The plan presented by prominent alumni involves raising enough in contributions to commission the erection of a statue of Dave Bing at the front doorstep...
Drew Sharp joined the Detroit Free Press in 1983 and served as the paper’s beat writer during the Pistons’ first two NBA championship seasons in 1989 and 1990. He also covered Michigan State University sports for eight years before becoming a columnist in 1999. Sharp is the only columnist in Detroit to have grown up in the city, giving him a unique first-person point of reference to the significant sports and political events in the city over the past five decades. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...David Bing was born on November 24, 1943, in Washington, DC. He was the second of Hasker and Juanita Bing’s four children. Bing’s origins were no different than those of other star athletes of his era. He grew up fiscally poor, but family...
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