OT: David Harns directly calls out Drew Sharp about plagiarized article

Plagiarism is no joke; it's a transgression which normally gets people expelled, fired, disgraced, and discredited. I remember there was a young lady years ago who wrote a novel which was later found to have been plagiarized - she was in the news for weeks, went on talk shows to do damage control, and was pretty much vilified. And that was for a work of fiction, with no quotes or attributions from a real person. But nobody seems to care about Sharp's crime. I think it's fair to say that sports journalism isn't held in high regard as "real journalism." Either that, or a blogger's own research isn't subject to the same protection that a mainstream journalist's work would be This isn't just a failure of the Freep or Sharp. This indicates a systemic issue.

It's going to look weird when his next column is him demanding an apology from himself.

Drewie completely abandoned his Twitter account, by the way -- his last post was in November 2015, when he tweeted, "State still sucks!" 

I guess if you're gonna go out, might as well go out with a bang.

Of course, the only team he hates worse than MSU is his own alma mater.

 

I am not familar with the specifics of this situation.   However Drew Sharp is such an asshole prick, that I am shocked that he has any friends or family in the world.

Ive exchanged emails with Sharp once, and he was such a defensive jackass.  The guy has clear social issues and must be a very lonely, friendless person.

I mean really, who cares? I stopped reading the freep or listening to 97.1 because of people like Sharp, Foster, that Spartie from the Oakland press Valenti, and (Valenti wanna be) Dery all the Sparty Slappy's make the paper and radio impossible for me to endure.

Dang I thought the title said David Harris calls out drew sharp. I had my hopes up l, still a good read tho

. . . The day Knight-Ridder left town (2005) & they flipped the mastheads.

not in Drew -- he got written off as a Douchasaurus Rex years ago.

In you, MGoBloggers.  A whole damn thread on DS, and not one soul thinks to post the sleeping picture of his Drewness.  

We are better than this; I know it's the off-season and all, but gotta stay sharp, kids.

Whenever I see something like this I wonder how many times the person's done it in the past and didn't get caught.  In this case probably a lot.  Hard to believe it was a one time "mistake".  Seems like something he was very comfortable doing.

can't the Freep find a better columnist? They can certainly find someone younger and cheaper.

To bad Sharp's a piece of shit and will do and/or say absolutely nothing.