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Thom Loverro

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

Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo is seen during a spring training baseball workout Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) ** FiLE**

LOVERRO: Rizzo wheels and deals another winning draft for Nationals

After the New York Mets selected catcher Hobie Landrith with their first pick in the National League expansion draft, Manager Casey Stengel was asked why they made that choice. "You have to have a catcher because if you don't, you're likely to have a lot of passed balls," he said. Published July 16, 2024

Baseball catcher Josh Gibson in an undated photo. Josh Gibson became Major League Baseball's career leader with a .372 batting average, surpassing Ty Cobb's .367, when records of the Negro Leagues for more than 2,300 players were incorporated after a three-year research project. (AP Photo/File) **FILE**

LOVERRO: Gibson takes his rightful place among the all-time greats

Josh Gibson was a celebrated young athlete in Pittsburgh, where his family moved from Buena Vista, Va., when he was 12 years old. He was a catcher for a Black amateur team called Gimbels A.C. He later played for a semi-pro team called the Crawford Colored Giants. But the local team he wanted to play for, the high-profile Homestead Grays, had no place for him. They had a catcher, Buck Ewing. Published July 9, 2024

Boston Celtics center Al Horford, center, and forward Jayson Tatum, center left, celebrates with teammates near the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy after the team won the NBA basketball championship with a Game 5 victory over the Dallas Mavericks, Monday, June 17, 2024, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

LOVERRO: Celtics’ success with Horford, Porzingis points up how Wizards fell short

The story of Al Horford and the Washington Wizards has been told before. But since this franchise continued to make one mistake after another following this failure, it's important to tell it again and again, until the local NBA team finally does something right -- you know, like the Boston Celtics have done 18 times to build championship rosters. Published June 18, 2024

Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao and his long-time publicist, the District's Fred Sternburg. (Photo courtesy of Fred Sternburg).

LOVERRO: Bethesda native Sternburg rightfully among boxing’s greats

I was there for the early days of the brilliance of Fred Sternburg, when he was publicizing club fights in places like the Pikesville Armory, where he searched far and wide for a phone line for me to send my column about the fight he had convinced me to cover. He found one in the guard shack outside. Published June 5, 2024

Washington Nationals centerfielder Victor Robles holding the 2019 World Series trophy during an on-field celebration of the championship team before an MLB game against the Houston Astros at Nationals Park in Washington D.C., April 20, 2024. (Photo by Billy Sabatini/All-Pro Reels)

LOVERRO: The long, confounding implosion of Victor Robles

This week, the Nationals made 27-year-old Victor Robles available, designating him for assignment after more than 10 years in the organization and eight years since he made his major league debut in 2017. Published May 29, 2024