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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

Max Scherzer adds luster to city’s MLB legacy

Some of Max Scherzer's contemporaries have better numbers in certain categories. But Scherzer has excelled in one metric likely to trump all: three Cy Young awards -- and counting.

November 16, 2017

Jerry Jones isn’t going anywhere

The war between Jones and his fellow NFL owners is escalating -- in part because, I suspect that it wouldn't take much to convince the other owners to stick a fork in the Cowboys' big mouth owner. I suspect, save for Snyder, a blowhard like Jones doesn't endear loyalty.

November 14, 2017

Home-field advantage a rarity for Snyder’s Redskins

You wouldn't have had to wait until Redskins fans were already sitting in traffic, fleeing the scene, to determine that the Redskins do not enjoy what is known as in other stadiums as home-field advantage. You could see it at kickoff, with about 15,000 empty seats and perhaps another 15,000 Vikings fans in purple.

November 12, 2017

Al Bumbry, former Oriole, learned lessons in Vietnam

Al Bumbry, like many who played in Baltimore, was brought up on the "Oriole Way," a philosophical approach to the craft of baseball that ran through the organization, particularly during the glory years. But it was in Vietnam that he learned about life and leadership.

November 9, 2017

Kirk Cousins continues to rise, on the field and off

There was a glimpse of the possibilities of Kirk Cousins on Sunday in his poise under pressure. His composure surrounded by chaos.

November 7, 2017

Robert Griffin III blames everyone for fall in Washington except Daniel Snyder

Maybe the only thing worse than a fraud playing the victim is a fraud playing the victim with no one paying attention.

November 5, 2017

Dave Martinez tells Lerners what they want to hear

It may have been a press conference, but the only person Dave Martinez was really talking to was sitting eight feet away -- Ted Lerner.

November 2, 2017

Mike Rizzo’s contract needs to be Nationals’ next move

From all accounts, Dave Martinez is a good man and a good baseball mind. But let's face it: He was Mike Rizzo's second choice.

October 31, 2017

Soggy Redskins-Cowboys rivalry lacks fire of old

The rivalry between the Washington Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys used to be "to the bone," Redskins Hall of Fame receiver Charley Taylor once told me. "To the marrow." Now it's boneless.

October 29, 2017

Soggy Redskins-Cowboys rivalry far cry from fiery past

The rivalry between the Washington Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys used to be "to the bone," Redskins Hall of Fame receiver Charley Taylor once told me. "To the marrow." Now it's boneless.

October 29, 2017

Joe Girardi’s availability complicates Nationals next move

That sound you hear coming from South Capitol Street is the Lerner family gasping for air from Joe Girardi's foot on their collective throats.

October 26, 2017

Eagles’ ascent began against Washington last December

Last December's narrow Redskins win over the Eagles should have made Jay Gruden nervous about what lay ahead for his team in the NFC East.

October 24, 2017

Dusty Baker learns Nationals can’t be trusted

Dusty Baker should have forced the Lerners to pay him or fire him. He would have been better off.

October 22, 2017

Dusty Baker’s ouster came from the top

Firing Dusty Baker was an ownership decision, Thom Loverro says. At what point will general manager Mike Rizzo stop taking the public lumps for them?

October 20, 2017

To be a fan in D.C. is to embrace heartache

It was a subdued crowd, but who would expect much more from the seventh game of an 82-game schedule that no one should expect to lead to anything -- other than, perhaps, something like a 9-8 Game 5 loss to the Cubs. A 115-105 Game 7 loss to the Boston Celtics. A 19-10 season-ending loss to the New York Giants. Or, of course, a 2-0 Game 7 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins.

October 19, 2017

LOVERRO: The gangster, the gamble and the horse that paid off

One hundred years ago Wednesday, Oct. 18, gangster Arnold Rothstein made perhaps his biggest score ever at Laurel Race Course in Maryland in what was one of the most celebrated horse races to date.

October 17, 2017

Sunday’s game adds to Shanahan’s case for Cousins

Here's Kyle Shanahan's case for Kirk Cousins to come play for him next season: "Kirk, I nearly just beat your heavily favored team on the road with a kid fresh out of college who had barely stepped on an NFL football field. Imagine what the two of us can do together."

October 15, 2017

LOVERRO: Meltdown all-too-familiar for Washington fans

It was a $230 million Scott Boras meltdown production, as his two clients, Scherzer and Wieters, combined for a series of plays that I might say was a comedy of errors, but there was nothing funny about it

October 13, 2017

Solve crisis by taking players out of the patriotism business

Whatever the reasons were for the NFL and the Defense Department to get into the patriotism business together, those reasons have been drowned by the debate over players kneeling in protest during the playing of the national anthem before the start of NFL games.

October 12, 2017