Thom Loverro

First Episode Features Special Guest & Six-Time Baseball All-Star Bobby Bonilla Washington – Thom Loverro’s “Cigars & Curveballs,” a one-hour podcast devoted to sports, culture and good times, will premiere Wednesday, July 13, 2016 with an interview with former six-time baseball All-Star – and the man with a baseball holiday now named after him – Bobby Bonilla. Bonilla will talk about “Bobby Bonilla Day” – the July 1 date the New York Mets have to pay Bonilla $1.2 million eve

I was a 24-year-old kid working for a small weekly newspaper in the Poconos in 1978 when I made my first trip to “Fighter’s Heaven” — Muhammad Ali’s mountain training camp in Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, about an hour away. Ali was training for his rematch against Leon Spinks, having lost in February to the former Olympic gold medalist who had just seven professional fights — a bout Ali had no business losing. The camp was packed with people, which was always part of Ali’s traini

The presence of Sonny Jurgensen and Billy Kilmer together at a Washington Nationals game last week caused quite a commotion — Washington sports royalty side by side, in, appropriately, the President’s Club seats. Two presidents at a Nationals game wouldn’t have gotten as much attention — especially two shown with cigars in their mouths. The one-time quarterback rivals here in Washington may be the most valued and treasured relationship in Washington sports history. Even thoug