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Thom Loverro

Thom Loverro has been a professional journalist since 1977, working for a number of newspapers, including eight years as a news editor and reporter for The Baltimore Sun, where he covered government, politics, and crime. He moved into sports writing when he joined The Washington Times in 1992. He moved to The Washington Examiner as a sports columnist in 2009 and returned to The Washington Times in 2013, where he is currently the lead sports columnist.

Columns by Thom Loverro

LOVERRO: Food for thought, goals for the soul and Ovechkin’s blue-plate special

Alex Ovechkin is the constant that calms the acid reflux in the stomachs of Washington sports fans. As long as he remains on the ice in Washington, there is a level of respect and competitiveness that makes the world all right -- even if the real world itself is a nightmare.

October 17, 2022

LOVERRO: Damning new report puts focus on Skipper Dan’s naughty list

"The NFL," Snyder reportedly told an associate, "is a mafia." No, Skipper Dan. The NFL is not a "mafia." If it were a mafia, the Washington Commanders owner would be in a hole in the Nevada desert by now. Or a New Jersey landfill.

October 13, 2022

LOVERRO: Eventually Rivera will have to look in the mirror for answers to team’s failures

What was funny about the latest predicament that Washington Commanders coach Ron Rivera found himself embroiled in -- and, let's face it, this franchise is a Don Rickles stand-up routine 24/7 -- was that it didn't happen as a result of one of his wordy, drawn-out answers to a press conference question. It happened because he gave a one-word answer: "Quarterback."

October 11, 2022

LOVERRO: Snyder’s offseason promises look emptier with every loss. Is anyone surprised?

Instead of the regular column, a postgame email from Thom Loverro to John Mooney, managing director of the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency, after the Washington Commanders' loss to the Tennessee Titans.

October 9, 2022

LOVERRO: Nice clubhouse chemistry, but Nationals sorely lacking talent

It turned out their chemistry was fine. By 107 team loss standards, it was a good clubhouse. What they were missing was, as the former Nationals manager Davey Johnson used to say, players "expressing their talents." There wasn't much expression. The reality is almost nothing went right this past season.

October 6, 2022

LOVERRO: Snyder’s cozying up to Jones sends defiant message to NFL

Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder flew to Dallas Sunday morning on one of his private jets with a mission in mind. It was to get a photo on the field at AT&T Stadium with powerful Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.

October 3, 2022

LOVERRO: Late father is a ‘hard voice to replace’ in boxer’s corner

The late Buddy Harrison was going to be in his son Dusty Hernandez-Harrison's corner Saturday night before it got unexpectedly postponed. "He will be a hard voice to replace," Dusty said. You would need a choir to replace the voice of Buddy Harrison.

September 29, 2022

LOVERRO: Commanders’ shiny new rebrand sustains a few dings in ugly loss to Eagles

They keep telling us the new Washington Commanders brand stands for a franchise on the upswing. But on Sunday, the Philadelphia Eagles takeover at Ghost Town Field just felt lik more of the same.

September 25, 2022

LOVERRO: From D.C. sandlots to MVP, Maury Wills changed baseball for the better

Maury Wills, who died this week at 89, came out of the District as maybe the greatest athlete from this city who impacted the game of baseball when he set the basepaths on fire as a record-setting Most Valuable Player for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

September 22, 2022

LOVERRO: Commanders’ open criticism is new ground for Rivera

Unlike in coach Ron Rivera's first two seasons, safety Darrick Forrest's comment came during the postgame locker room media availability Sunday -- a practice that wasn't allowed by the NFL in 2020 or 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

September 19, 2022

LOVERRO: New QB, new optimism and maybe even a new era of football

Wentz threw two dramatic fourth-quarter touchdown passes to lead his team to a 28-22 victory in the Commanders' inaugural performance and sent the raucous crowd home happy and perhaps hopeful.

September 11, 2022

LOVERRO: Winning on the field is one way to turn down the noise around Commanders

The Washington Commanders have so many "Ghosts of Christmas Past" investigating the franchise that they could haunt a house the size of Skipper Dan Snyder's mansion.

September 7, 2022

LOVERRO: Taking cash for beatdowns ain’t much of a living, HBCUs

Historically black colleges and universities are popping up on big-time college football program schedules for all the wrong reasons.

September 5, 2022

LOVERRO: No excellence in Hall of Fame award if it’s not given to or named for Petitbon

This "Awards of Excellence" honor though speaks exactly to Richie Petitbon's credentials. It's as if the award was created for him -- ergo, my question is why it wasn't named after Petitbon.

September 1, 2022

LOVERRO: An honor long overdue from a franchise that, these days, doesn’t have a clue

The Washington Commanders announced they are going to retire Hall of Fame and franchise legend Sonny Jurgensen's famous No. 9 jersey.

August 25, 2022

LOVERRO: Prince George’s Valor owner absorbing hits, but still taking her best shots

After two years of game cancellations and postponements, struggling through COVID-19, LaDonna Smith is about to enter a new season as owner of the minor league basketball franchise. She has survived a pandemic, coaches and roster turnover and different venues -- and outlasted a list of those she believes tried to put her out of business.

August 24, 2022

LOVERRO: Passion and purpose meet in the sneaker resale market

Sneaker Con -- the celebration of resale sneakers -- is a world that grew out of the generation of youths enamored with Michael Jordan and his Air Jordans in 1985. That was almost 40 years ago, and that generation and others will gather this weekend in Washington to share their passion and their money.

August 18, 2022

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