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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: A tale of Redskins quarterbacks past, present and pretend

The scene at FedEx Field Monday night while the Washington Redskins were struggling nobly in a 27-17 loss to the defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks was a variation on Charles Dickens' holiday tale, "A Christmas Carol."

October 7, 2014

LOVERRO: Matt Williams’ best-laid plans could put Nationals in ground

So, the Nats have a plan for when a starting pitcher coming off a no-hitter has shut out the opposing team in a postseason game, allowing just three hits in his last 18 innings, with two outs, still throwing 94 miles per hour, after retiring 20 straight hitters, walks his first batter after getting squeezed by the home plate umpire?

October 5, 2014

LOVERRO: Stephen Strasburg settles for ‘fine’ in long-awaited postseason debut

Jake Peavy — who no-hit the Nationals through the first four innings and left after 5 2/3 innings pitched having allowed no runs on two hits and three walks — is not supposed to be better than Stephen Strasburg at this stage in their respective careers.

October 3, 2014

LOVERRO: Denard Span is difference-maker from Nats’ last playoff team

The 2012 series-opening lineup led off with Jayson Werth. This year's version will lead off with center fielder Denard Span. We can stop right there.

October 2, 2014

LOVERRO: Jordan Zimmermann to join Nats famous and forgotten in Hall of Fame

Zimmermann will take his place alongside Terrmel Sledge, Alfonso Soriano, Ryan Zimmerman and Stephen Strasburg — memorable and forgettable Washington Nationals — in Cooperstown after Sunday's no-hit feat.

September 30, 2014

LOVERRO: As Derek Jeter departs, Yankees now A-Rod’s team

As baseball says goodbye to the good king, the evil king still lurks in the shadows — banished and broken, but, from all accounts, expected to return next season.

September 28, 2014

LOVERRO: Jay Gruden faces Redskins’ reality, and it isn’t pretty

After this 45-14 beat-down on national television by a team that seemed to destined to be an NFC East bottom feeder this season, Gruden's team is not just behind the 8-ball — it is broke, busted.

September 26, 2014

LOVERRO: Randy Knorr comfortable as guy beside the guy in Nationals’ dugout

Knorr is Matt Williams' bench coach, his consigliere, so to speak, his dugout adviser on baseball matters. But if Knorr, 45, had his way, he would have been the boss, not the adviser. This would be his championship team, not Williams' squad.

September 25, 2014

LOVERRO: Empty statements, transparent motives mark NFL’s response to crisis

It really doesn't matter anymore who is lying. We're at the point where you have to assume they all are. Add truth and the NFL's credibility to the growing list of victims here.

September 23, 2014

LOVERRO: Redskins, Eagles ready for more after Thrilla in Phila

Sunday's 37-34 Eagles win over the Redskins at Lincoln Financial Field was everything you would want in an NFC East rivalry game. Frustration, exhilaration, desperation, retribution, confrontations, altercations, ejections — all of it adding up to one of the more hard-fought games between these two division rivals in recent years.

September 21, 2014

LOVERRO: Mike Rizzo truly the architect of NL East champion Washington Nationals

The Nats won the division title going away without a .300 hitter, a 15-game winner, a 25-home run hitter or a 100-RBI man. They won it with a rookie manager who lost his biggest bats in the opening weeks of the season, and has been without one of the team's best players for much of the year. They won because of a group of Mike Rizzo moments.

September 18, 2014

LOVERRO: A Redskins QB controversy worth cheering for

Three years ago, the quarterback controversy was Rex Grossman vs. John Beck. Think about that one. What other town could possibly get worked up about Rex Grossman vs. John Beck? At least now the debate is about better quarterbacks.

September 16, 2014

LOVERRO: With Robert Griffin III injury, mixed emotions for Redskins

It was almost like an Irish wake Sunday at FedEx Field. Everyone was celebrating and hugging each other — on the Redskins sideline and in the stands — as the clock wound down on Washington's impressive 41-10 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars. Yet perhaps we had witnessed the end of Robert Griffin III's career as a Redskin.

September 14, 2014

LOVERRO: Why is Roger Goodell still employed? He always makes money for his partners

Why else would this guy — the face of your business, who can't even be seen in public now (he canceled an appearance Wednesday night at an event honoring Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson) — keep his job?

September 11, 2014

LOVERRO: A year ago, NFL used Ray Rice jersey to market apparel to women

In a seemingly bottomless pit of shame for the league, following the release of the TMZ video and the NFL and Ravens backtracking to cut their ties with Rice, its advertising campaign launched in September 2013 to sell product to women is particularly disgusting for the message that it delivered.

September 9, 2014

LOVERRO: NFL, Ravens felled by Ray Rice punch we shouldn’t have had to see

The NFL — which now has suspended Rice "indefinitely" — is claiming that Rice wasn't honest with them about the details surrounding the incident, but what exactly did it think happened when the initial video showed him dragging his fiance out of the elevator?

September 8, 2014