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  Sterling Sharpe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sterling Sharpe (born April 6, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former American football wide receiver who played from 1988 to 1995 (the 1994 season) with the Green Bay Packers.
Sharpe was the first round draft pick of the Packers in 1988 and had an immediate impact on the team.
Sterling Sharpe ended his career short with a neck injury after the 1994 season, but in his tenure as a wide receiver he was named All-Pro five times (1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, and 1994).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sterling_Sharpe   (369 words)

  
 Shannon Sharpe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shannon Sharpe (born June 26, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former AFC tight end and wide receiver who played 12 of his 14 seasons with the Denver Broncos in the NFL.
Sharpe is known most for his creative commentary and trash talking as well as for being no doubt the greatest tight end of his time, and maybe in league history.
Sharpe was selected in the 7th round of the 1990 NFL Draft, 192nd overall, by the Broncos.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shannon_Sharpe   (641 words)

  
 Sharpe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lennox Sharpe (born 1963), Trinidad and Tobago steelband composer
Sharpe, Tom (born 1928), English satirical author (Wilt)
William Forsyth Sharpe (born 1934), U.S. economist (Sharpe ratio)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sharpe   (190 words)

  
 sharpe012601
And there was the Shannon Sharpe who lashed out at the media Wednesday, interrupting a news conference with Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis and speaking out in Lewis' defense.
Sharpe wastes no opportunity to blast the Bengals when asked - he's often called Cincinnati the ''Siberia of the NFL'' - but his tone gets more serious, respectful even, when the subject turned to Spikes.
Sharpe has sympathy for Spikes, whose Bengals have won 11 games in the three seasons he's been with the club.
www.cincypost.com /sports/sharpe012601.html   (694 words)

  
 Sixth Generation
Sharpe, son of the late William and Martha Sharpe, and Ordetta M. Klock, daughter of the late George and Edna Klock, were married July 16, 1942, in the Waddington Methodist parsonage with the Rev. Leonard Russell officiating.
Sharpe is active in the Scotch Presbyterian Church, Chipman, and the Madrid Rescue Squad Auxiliary.
Sharpe is a pistol, rifle and shotgun marksman.
www.rootsweb.com /~nystlawr/Brotherton/b136388.htm   (428 words)

  
 Broncos TE gives Sharpe edge to self
Sharpe, who was voted to his sixth Pro Bowl after catching 72 passes for 1,172 yards in 1997, will be matched against LeRoy Butler, Green Bay's Pro Bowl strong safety.
Sharpe, an eight-year veteran, wants to win a Super Bowl ring for a number of reasons, but none more important than his older brother, ESPN broadcaster Sterling Sharpe, the former Green Bay receiver who went to five Pro Bowls and had to retire because of a neck injury.
Sharpe wouldn't have a multimillion-dollar contract, and he wouldn't be getting ready to play in Super Bowl XXXII were it not for quarterback John Elway.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/sports/fb/nfl/98/01/24/sharpe.html   (1256 words)

  
 NFL.com - NFL Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Sharpe was an analyst for ESPN Sunday Night Countdown for the past seven years before joining NFL Network.
Sharpe led the NFL in catches three times, touchdown catches twice and receiving yards once.
A five-time Pro Bowl selection, Sharpe had five 1,000-yard seasons and became the first player in NFL history with consecutive 100-catch seasons in 1992-93.
www.nfl.com /nflnetwork/sharpe_sterling   (226 words)

  
 SI.com - Writers - Media Circus (cont.) - Sunday May 14, 2006 11:11PM
Sterling Sharpe has been a regular on TV since his retirement from the league.
Sharpe, of course, was famously uncooperative with the media as an active player with the Packers.
Sharpe did some interviews for the first couple of weeks of his ESPN tenure, according to an ESPN source who worked with Sharpe at the network, then "literally did nothing" outside of a handful of interviews on his brother.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2006/writers/richard_deitsch/05/14/media.piniella/1.html   (595 words)

  
 Packers.com » News » Stories » 2004 » 02 » 10 » 1
A first-round draft pick out of South Carolina, Sharpe quickly became the Packers' go-to receiver, leading the team in receptions each of his seven seasons with the organization, including league-high numbers in three of those years (1989, 1992-93).
Selected to five Pro Bowls, Sharpe's career was cut short when doctors advised the 29-year-old All-Pro receiver to retire from football due to an injury described as "an abnormal amount of laxity in his first and second cervical vertebrae..."
Sharpe was inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame in 2002.
www.packers.com /news/stories/2004/02/10/1   (458 words)

  
 JS Online: ESPN thinks Sharpe isn't sterling anymore
As an analyst, Sharpe was a high-volume talker, which is to say he could shout for impressively long periods of time.
Sharpe can be uncooperative, and that might not be viewed as a positive quality in a company that wants its talent to be made available across a variety of media: TV, radio, Internet and a magazine.
Sharpe could re-emerge with a role on one of the other networks with NFL inventory.
www.jsonline.com /packer/news/jul03/152612.asp   (798 words)

  
 ESPN.com: Sterling performance carries Packers in '93
Long before Brett Favre was winning back-to-back MVPs and before surgery cut short the stellar career of Sterling Sharpe, the Green Bay Packers actually finished behind the Detroit Lions in the NFC Central.
Sharpe lined up as the slot receiver to Favre's left, and when he got time to throw, he delivered a perfect pass that Sharpe hauled in for the score.
He found Sharpe racing down the sideline all alone and hit him with a 40-yard touchdown pass -- Sharpe's third of the day -- and the Packers were off to the Divisional Playoffs in Dallas.
espn.go.com /nfl/playoffs98/news/1998/981230/01018842.html   (990 words)

  
 Shannon Sharpe in comparison to big brother
SAN DIEGO -- Sterling is supposed to be the chatty one among the Sharpe brothers.
Then, on Dec. 18, 1994, in a game at Atlanta, Sharpe dislodged two cervical vertebra in his neck and, just like that, his career was over, one week before Green Bay's first playoff game in 11 years.
He eventually played at a Division 1-AA school in Savannah, Ga. Unlike Sterling, he was not a first-round pick in the NFL draft, wallowing until the seventh round.
www.canoe.ca /97NFLPlayoffs/jan24_fidlin.html   (680 words)

  
 NFL Play Football: Be A Player   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Sterling graduated from the University of South Carolina with two degrees, one in interdisciplinary studies, the other in retailing.
Sharpe's younger brother, Shannon, is a tight end for the Baltimore Ravens.
Sterling and Shannon are the only brother combination in NFL history to lead their respective teams in receiving in the same season (1992).
www.playfootball.com /footballfacts/jobs_feature5.html   (224 words)

  
 Ravens' Sharpe is more than talk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In his 11th season, Sharpe, who signed as a free agent, was Baltimore's leading receiver with 67 receptions and 810 yards and five touchdowns.
Sharpe also was believed to have been the mediator who headed off potential locker room tensions between the Ravens' record-setting defense and their offense when the team went without scoring a touchdown in five October games.
Sharpe and the Super Bowl's other media darling, Giants cornerback Jason Sehorn, star in a TV commercial for an investment firm.
www.enquirer.com /editions/2001/01/25/spt_ravens_sharpe_is.html   (756 words)

  
 ABERDEEN LEAGUE OF FANTASY FOOTBALL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Arguably the best fantasy wide-out ever, Sterling Sharpe burst onto the scene in 1992 with the 2 Minute Drillers where he set the standard for all to follow with a stunning 39 pts.
Sterling made all ALFF as a starter in each of the 3 seasons he played.
If there's an argument against first ALFF Hall of Fame inductee WR Sterling Sharpe being the best fantasy WR of all time, one of the few alternatives would have to be pass catcher extraordinaire Andre Rison.
www.alff.co.uk /Hall_of_Fame.htm   (1740 words)

  
 Sharpe was playing for his brother, too
 Sterling Sharpe was one of the NFL's top receivers before a neck injury late in the 1994 season ended his career.
 Shannon Sharpe said his confidence never wavered -- during the two weeks leading up to the game, during the first few minutes when the Packers took a 7-0 lead by scoring on their first possession, and as time wound down.
 Sharpe said he felt the Broncos had been disrespected in the days leading up to the game.
www.canoe.ca /97NFLPlayoffs/jan25_broncos2.html   (455 words)

  
 Scout.com: Questions and answers with Sterling Sharpe
Former Packers wide receiver Sterling Sharpe, who was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame Saturday, answered questions from the media prior to the ceremony that honored him and longtime team photographer Vernon Biever.
Sharpe: “I’m extremely appreciative of the fact that all I had to do to achieve this honor was to play.
Sharpe: “I don’t think by talking to the media they could’ve got a chance to know me better.
packers.scout.com /2/54236.html   (855 words)

  
 Sterling Sharpe Gone??? - The Warpath
I was gonna make a topic about this, i really hope sterling sharpe will be back soon.
Sterling Sharpe is going to be doing some color commentary for ESPN late in the season.
Whatever; although less animated than his coke-buzzing counterpart, Sharpe's actual analysis was both more substantive and illuminating than Irving's incoherent rants.
www.thewarpath.net /showthread.php?t=7414   (625 words)

  
 Davis hoping to be another Carolina find
Zola Davis, trying to follow Sterling Sharpe's and Robert Brooks' route to the Packers, catches a ball in front of Mike McKenzie and Rodney Artmore at practice last week.
When Davis finished his career at the University of South Carolina sandwiched between Sterling Sharpe and Robert Brooks in the Gamecocks' record book, he knew he had to follow their footsteps to Green Bay.
Davis certainly paid attention to Sharpe and Brooks when he was chasing their records at South Carolina.
www.packersnews.com /archives/9908/0809davis.shtml   (552 words)

  
 On the Media
Sharpe told HBO that had Tuaolo come out while playing his own teammates would have attempted to seriously injure him.
JOHN SOLOMON: Sharpe also said that had he played with an openly gay teammate, the public might think he too was gay.
They didn't as, for example, if Sharpe feels most players would jeopardize their chances to win by physically disabling a gay teammate.
www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_012403_nfl.html   (960 words)

  
 EXTREMESKINS.com - Sterling Sharpe smoking the glass pipe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The difference is with Bledsoe people can imagine how he might put up 4,000 yards and play well and with Ramsey he's never shown he can do that, so, it's harder to project he'll be the answer.
Sterling was saying they preparing for the Iggles in the sense they were close and the offseason additions were upgrades to put them over the top.
Sterling isn't paying attention...oh well, hopefully the Skins sneakup on some folks...
www.extremeskins.com /forums/printthread.php?t=111580   (1277 words)

  
 JS Online: Sharpe lands analyst's job with NFL's TV venture
Sharpe, 38, spent seven seasons with the Packers followed by eight years with ESPN as a studio analyst.
Sharpe was on "Sunday NFL Countdown" and "Monday Night Countdown." His contract with ESPN was not renewed and he was replaced by Michael Irvin.
Sharpe, Parker and Wilcots also will participate in what the network is calling its signature show, "NFL Total Access," with host Rich Eisen, airing at 7 p.m.
www.jsonline.com /sports/gen/sep03/171921.asp   (801 words)

  
 IGN: NFL Street 2: The Legends Part 2
The first player to ever record back-to-back 100 catch seasons, Sterling Sharpe was the man before anyone even knew he had a brother.
Sterling recorded 595 receptions throughout his seven-year career and like his favorite quarterback, never sat out due to injury.
Sharpe picks right up where he left off in NFL Street 2, as you can reunite Sterling with Favre to throw the Wall Fade all day long.
sports.ign.com /articles/571/571896p2.html   (530 words)

  
 KFFL - Sterling Sharpe, WR, Retired
NBC Sports announced they have added former Green Bay Packers WR Sterling Sharpe to the broadcast lineup for their "Football Night in America" studio show, which will debut in the fall.
Sharpe will also continue to serve as an analyst on the NFL Network.
Bob Wolfley, of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, reports unverified reports have said Andrea Kremer of ESPN and Sterling Sharpe, the former Green Bay Packers wide receiver who is with the NFL Network, might be hired to serve as sideline reporters on NBC's Sunday games.
www.kffl.com /player/6683/nfl   (164 words)

  
 Post Patterns - Sterling Sharpe replaced by Michael Irvin?
Sharpe is being replaced on "ESPN's Monday night NFL Countdown" also.
He was witty and had a sharp toungue (no pun intended).
Sterling can be a little arrogant at times, but at least he comes off humorous about it and knows his X's and O's.
www.houstonprofootball.com /forums/showthread.php?s=959b3d87f8beb6d0f70de4f38729b393&threadid=2041   (986 words)

  
 Sharpe To Play For Peacock - 5/2/2006 11:04:00 AM - Broadcasting & Cable - CA6330645   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Sharpe joins NBC's Football Night in America, the studio show for its return to NFL action.
Sharpe will be joining a Pro Bowl lineup of sports broadcasters at NBC, with Al Michaels and John Madden calling the games and Bob Costas and Chris Collinsworth fronting the studio show.
Also making the move from gridiron to TV along with Sharpe (Collinsworth is also a former star) is Steelers running back Jermoe Bettis.
broadcastingcable.com /article/CA6330645.html?...&spacedesc=news   (227 words)

  
 Population Statistic - Feedback on STERLING SHARPE’S NASAL TONES
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I had read in Friday’s USA Today that ESPN was using Sterling Sharpe’s work sunday as an “audition” for possible future use.
Must have been a highly unofficial “audition”, as Sharpe is working for NFL Network (technically a rival).
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 USATODAY.com - NBC tabs Sharpe for studio duty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Sterling Sharpe, now on the NFL Network after being dropped by ESPN in 2003, will be a studio analyst, joining Bob Costas, Cris Collinsworth, Jerome Bettis and Peter King.
Ebersol says Sharpe was hired in November after "an audition that was one of the best I've ever seen.
Sharpe, whose brother Shannon is a CBS analyst, declined to criticize ESPN: "There's nothing wrong with how ESPN does things — it got me in front of the NBC people."
www.usatoday.com /sports/columnist/hiestand-tv/2006-05-03-hiestand-sharpe_x.htm   (788 words)

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