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Mr. Thom Loverro is a sports columnist for the Washington Times. He covers a wide variety of sports but primarily focuses on professional baseball and the Major League Baseball Team the Washington Nationals. In the past, 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. He has recently written "Kolzig's farewell marks the end of a special era," "Sportswriter's legacy hurt by a lifelong lie" and "Eagles eyed for concert at new Nationals Park."[CR-LF][CR-LF]Loverro's work is consistently named among the daily top 10 sports articles in the industry Web site Sportspages.com. His articles have also appeared in Sports Illustrated, Sport magazine, Washingtonian Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review and American Journalism Review. [CR-LF][CR-LF]Loverro is rarely in the office so he prefers to receive relevant press releases and story ideas via e-mail. He accepts high-resolution photos and attachments. [CR-LF][CR-LF]Loverro has appeared on ESPN, Home Box Office, 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.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Loverro 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. And most recently, Loverro was among the team that won the 2007 Society of Professional Journalists' third place sports writing award. Also in 2007, Loverro was inducted into the East Stroudsburg, Pa., High School Meritorious Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the school.[CR-LF][CR-LF]He is the author of 11 books: "Orioles Essential: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Real Fan," "Eagles Essential: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Real Fan," "Hail Victory: An Oral History of the Washington Redskins," "The Rise & Fall of ECW: Extreme Championship Wrestling," "The Quotable Coach: Leadership and Motivation From History's Greatest Coaches," "The Encyclopedia of Negro League Baseball (Facts on File Sports Library)," "Oriole Magic: The O's of '83," "Cammi Granato: Hockey Pioneer," "Home of the Game: The Story of Camden Yards," "Blazing Trails: Coming of Age in Football's Golden Era" and "Washington Redskins : The Authorized History." [CR-LF][CR-LF]Loverro has been with the Times since 1992. Before joining the Times, he worked as a news editor and reporter for the Baltimore Sun.[CR-LF][CR-LF]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.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Loverro graduated from East Stroudsburg High School in 1971, where he was senior class vice president and competed in wrestling and track, among other school activities.[CR-LF][CR-LF]He is a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Additional information can be found on Loverro's personal Web site at http://www.thomloverro.com.

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