About 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 reporting when he joined The Washington Times in 1992 and remained until 2009.

At the Times, Loverro gained a reputation within the Washington metropolitan area as one of the best sports columnists in the region. The Washington City Paper, in a 2001 profile of Loverro, wrote, "Thom Loverro is a columnist for the Times, and as good a sportswriter as we've got in this city."

When the Times announced it was eliminating its sports section, a number of people wrote kudos to the work Loverro did, including ESPN baseball writer Buster Olney, who wrote, "When I covered the Orioles in the mid-'90s, Thom Loverro was on the O's beat for the Times; he went on to become a columnist there, always writing exceptionally, with great integrity."

Loverro has covered the World Series, the NFL, NBA and NHL playoffs, world championship fights, the Winter Olympics in Japan in 1998 and Salt Lake City in 2002 and the Summer Olympics in Australia in 2000. He has also traveled to cover such unique events as the Baltimore Orioles trip to Cuba to play the national team in 1999.

His work has consistently named among the daily top 10 sports articles in the industry website Sportspages.com. His articles have also appeared in Sports Illustrated, Sport magazine, Washingtonian, Columbia Journalism Review and American Journalism Review. He has won 27 national, regional and local journalism awards over his career, including a first place in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and a three-time sports columnist winner in the Virginia Press Association competition. In 2009, Loverro was voted Maryland Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.

In 2005, he was one of just three sportswriters across the country to be invited to the Oval Office in The White House to interview President Bush about baseball.

Loverro, who received a Bachelor of Science degree in Liberal Studies from the University of Scranton and a master's degree in Journalism and Public Affairs from American University in Washington, has also taught journalism courses at Towson State University and American University.

He has also been sought as a guest for his opinions on a number of television networks, such as Comcast, Home Box Office, ESPN, MSNBC and the local Fox, CBS, NBC and ABC affiliates in Washington and Baltimore, and has made numerous radio appearances over the years.

Loverro is currently the co-host of "The Sports Fix," a sports talk show on ESPN 980 radio in Washington, from noon to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Loverro is also the author of 11 books:

•  Washington Redskins: The Authorized History (Taylor Publishing, 1996)
•  Home of the Game: The Story of Camden Yards (Taylor Publishing, 1999)
•  Cammi Granato: Hockey Pioneer (Lerner Books, 2000)
•  The Quotable Coach (Career Press, 2002)
•  The Encyclopedia of Negro League Baseball (Facts on File Publishing 2003)
•  The John Mackey Story, Blazing Trails: Coming of Age in Football's Golden Era  (Triumph Books, 2003)
•  Oriole Magic: The O's of '83 (Triumph Books, 2004)
•  Hail Victory: An Oral History of the Washington Redskins (John Wiley & Sons, 2006)
•  The Rise and Fall of Extreme Championship Wrestling (Pocket Books, 2006)
•  Eagles Essential (Triumph Books, 2006)
•  Orioles Essential (Triumph Books, 2007)

Thom Loverro was inducted into the East Stroudsburg, Pa., High School Meritorious Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the school on May 31, 2007. He graduated from East Stroudsburg in 1971, where he was senior class vice president and competed in wrestling and track, among other school activities.