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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

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