DETROIT (AP) 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.
