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Thom Loverro

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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

FILE - Washington Nationals starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg acknowledges the fans as he comes off the field after a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies at Nationals Park, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013, in Washington. Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg has decided to announce his retirement, ending a career that began as a No. 1 draft pick, included 2019 World Series MVP honors and was derailed by injuries, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, because Strasburg has not spoken publicly about his plans.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

LOVERRO: Strasburg earned place in hearts of fans, teammates

Everyone who was in soldout Nationals Park the day Stephen Strasburg made his MLB debut likely remembers. The hype, for once, was real. Strasburg, Washington's No. 1 draft pick in 2009, struck out 14 Pittsburgh Pirates in seven innings on his way to a 5-2 win.

April 7, 2024
Boston Red Sox President and CEO Larry Lucchino watches a video tribute before a baseball game between the Red Sox and the Baltimore Orioles in Boston, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015. Larry Lucchino, the force behind baseball’s retro ballpark revolution and the transformation of the Boston Red Sox from cursed losers to World Series champions, has died. He was 78. Lucchino had suffered from cancer. The Triple-A Worcester Red Sox, his last project in a career that also included three major league baseball franchises and one in the NFL, confirmed his death on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

LOVERRO: Larry Lucchino’s mission to save baseball began in Baltimore

Lucchino passed away this week at 78 with a resume unrivaled in sports, one that makes you wonder why they will have waited until he died before enshrining him in the Baseball Hall of Fame. He will have a plaque there soon, maybe before the one he should have had years ago in the Orioles Hall of Fame.

April 4, 2024
Ted Leonsis, owner of the Washington Wizards NBA basketball team and Washington Capitals NHL hockey team, speaks during a news conference at Capitol One Arena in Washington, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough) ** FILE **

LOVERRO: Qatar cash undercuts Leonsis, Monumental message of LGBTQ inclusivity

Here is how Pride Night is celebrated in Qatar, Monumental Sports' business partner: Any public display of LGBTQ support would likely result in arrest and hard jail time that would include interrogations to reveal to the police anything you may know about other LGBTQ people in hiding in the Islamic country.

April 3, 2024
Baltimore Orioles principal owner Peter Angelos has refused to let baseball owners' Revenue Sharing Definitions Committee determine how much cable TV money the Nationals would get. (Associated Press) **FILE**

LOVERRO: Angelos, the Orioles and one drama after another (after another)

The relationship between Peter Angelos, who died Saturday at the age of 94, and the press would sour as the team fell into a dysfunctional abyss for 14 straight losing seasons. But in those first years of ownership, Angelos loved bending the ears of the sportswriters who covered him and his team.

March 25, 2024
Washington Wizards forward Kyle Kuzma (33) putting up a shot during the second quarter of an NBA game against the Philadelphia 76ers at Capital One Arena in Washington D.C., February 10, 2024. (Photo by Billy Sabatini)

LOVERRO: Keeping Kuzma shows Wizards can’t even tank right

The NBA showcased its unwatchable product Sunday night with their annual All-Star Game, where the league's superheroes displayed little intelligence, artificial or otherwise, in an absurd 211-186 Eastern Conference win over the Western Conference.

February 19, 2024
University of Maryland head basketball coach Charles "Lefty" Driesell shouts encouragement to his team as they clash with Duke University at College Park, Md., Feb. 2, 1974. Lefty Driesell, the coach whose folksy drawl belied a fiery on-court demeanor that put Maryland on the college basketball map and enabled him to rebuild several struggling programs, died Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. He was 92. (AP Photo/William Smith, File)

LOVERRO: Lefty Driesell put Maryland basketball on the map

Lefty the Showman passed away Saturday at the age of 92 and the DMV sports community -- marked these days by dullness and depression -- mourned not just the man, but the excitement he created that still resonates to this day.

February 18, 2024