Thom Loverro

Thomas F. Loverro (born 25 March 1954 in Brooklyn, New York), is an American sportswriter.

Loverro was a news editor and reporter for The "Baltimore Sun", and has been with The "Washington Times" since 1992. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Scranton and a master's in Journalism and Public Affairs from American University, and has taught journalism at Towson University and American University. He is the author of 11 books.

Loverro previously served as a news editor and reporter for eight years at The Baltimore Sun, where he covered government, politics and crime, but has worked has a professional journalist since 1977.

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."

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 the Baltimore Orioles trip to Cuba to play the national team in 1999.

His work is 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 Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review and American Journalism Review. He has won 22 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 2005, he was one of three sportswriters across the country to be invited to the Oval Office in The White House to interview President Bush about baseball.

Loverro has appeared as a guest 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. He is also a regular panel member on the radio program, "The Sports Reporters," on WTEM-AM Sportstalk 980 in Washington.

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.

Books by Thom Loverro:
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)

External links

* [http://www.thomloverro.com Official Website]
* [http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=SPORTS07 Thom Loverro's column]