Longtime KOMO-4 reporter John Sharify, who left the ABC affiliate two years ago and is currently general manager for Seattle Community College Television, has struck a deal to do long-form general assignment pieces for KING-5 several times per month, beginning in September. One of Sharify's stories, a multi-part series that morphed into a short documentary on the homeless former basketball player Joe Pace, helped inspire this SW piece, which earned first-place honors at the National Asso