Sherman hunting for greatness and attention -- and that's fine

He turns criticism into fuel, and hunts both greatness and attention at the same time. This is Sherman. He was the ideal character for Media Day. He may also be the most important player in the actual game.

Michael Rosenberg is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, covering any and all sports. He writes columns, profiles and investigative stories and has covered almost every major sporting event. He joined SI in 2012 after working at the Detroit Free Press for 13 years, eight of them as a columnist. Rosenberg is the author of "War As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler and America in a Time of Unrest." Several of his stories also have been published in collections of the year's best sportswriting. He is married with three children.
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