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Thom Loverro

tloverro@washingtontimes.com

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

Mike Tyson gives an interview to The Associated Press, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, May 4, 2017. Tyson is in Dubai to announce the start of his worldwide boxing gym franchise. Tyson said Thursday that a city like Dubai can show people the best of the Middle East, its people and Islam. Tyson praised the sheikhdom as "a party place, a place you have a good time at. This is like New York, man!" He said that contradicts some negative perceptions of the Mideast. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Tyson-Holyfield and the bite that broke boxing

Marc Ratner can still remember the tension 20 years later that he felt in the MGM Grand casino the night Mike Tyson would meet Evander Holyfield in the ring for their rematch -- and this was before the fight.

June 27, 2017
Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins (8) looks to pass during an NFL football team practice, Wednesday, June 14, 2017, in Ashburn, Va. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

Kirk Cousins highest-paid NFL player ever?

When Robert Griffin III walked the halls of Redskins Park, he mistook friendship with the owner for real power. Kirk Cousins isn't going to make that error.

June 25, 2017
Washington Redskins Barry Wilburn (45) intercepts pass by Denver Broncos John Elway in second quarter of Super Bowl, Sunday, Jan. 31, 1988 in San Diego. Pass was intended for Ricky Nattiel (84) who?s going up for ball with Wilburn. Redskins had a 35-10 halftime lead. (AP Photo/Bob Galbraith)

Outside the NFL, pro football mostly a mirage

There has yet to be a sustainable new football enterprise -- other than the goliath known as the National Football League (even the Arena Football League, started in 1987, appears to be on its last legs).

June 20, 2017
World Boxing Council champion Larry Holmes, right, delivers a flurry of blows to challenger Gerry Cooney during the 13th and final round of their championship fight, June, 12, 1982 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Holmes won the fight and retained his crown with a 13th round knockout. It was 25 years ago on a blisteringly hot night in Las Vegas, and Holmes was defending his heavyweight title against the big-punching Cooney in the richest fight of its time. (AP Photo/file)

Gerry Cooney on race, Larry Holmes and the fight

A country divided by race can manifest itself in many ways -- a presidential election, a football player refusing to stand for the national anthem, and, 35 years ago Sunday, in a boxing ring outside Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

June 11, 2017
A drone with a camera hanging from it flies over PNC Park during the baseball game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the New York Mets on Thursday, June 26, 2014, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Between drones and fans, MLB makes right choice

It didn't get much notice, but Major League Baseball recently announced a decision that could save your life at a baseball game -- a decision that particularly hit home for me.

June 4, 2017
The Washington Valor, part of a five-team mostly East Coast-based Arena Football League, are 1-2 in their first season going into Saturday's home game with Tampa Bay. (Ned Dishman) ** FILE **

NFL dreams fuel D.C.’s latest indoor football adventure

Sean Brackett is the third-string quarterback for the Washington Valor, and believe me, there is no more third string than being the third-string quarterback for the Washington Valor in the Arena Football League.

May 28, 2017

Small college building winning black baseball program

MLB wants to rekindle interest in baseball among young black Americans. The commissioner might want to look in Largo, Md., where Prince George's Community College's mostly black team in the hunt for a title.

May 25, 2017
Uzbekistan's Fazliddin Gaibnazarov, left, and United State's Gary Russell exchange punches during a men's light welterweight 64-kg quarterfinals boxing match at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Gary Russell Jr., his brothers headline boxing card

Gary Russell Jr., the world featherweight champion, will defend his title Saturday at the MGM National Harbor, and his two brothers, Gary Antuanne, making his professional debut, and Gary Antonio, an undefeated bantamweight fighter, are featured on the card as well.

May 18, 2017