Thom Loverro
Columns by Thom Loverro
LOVERRO: Home-ice advantage is as clear as a bell
The Capitals' home-ice advantage of the 2009 season didn't seem to be there for them when they dropped Games 1 and 2 at home in this series. But it was in all its glory Friday night. Published April 25, 2009
Thom Loverro: Playing poker leaves nothing but a deficit
So what do you do when you go to your ace in the hole and you have nothing to show for it? Published April 19, 2009
Thom Loverro: When there’s a will, defense is just the way
This was a battle of wills - the will of offense vs. the will of defense. Typically in postseason play, the will of defense wins - except when you have too many offensive wills to fight. Published April 16, 2009
Thom Loverro: Fretting a missed opportunity
After three straight losing seasons, a Southeast Division championship and a dramatic season-ending run to the playoffs certainly qualifies as a success. Published April 15, 2009
Thom Loverro: Kalas’ legacy much deeper than his voice
The broadcast press box at Nationals Park is several hundred feet above the playing field, but what happened up there shortly after noon Monday stunned everyone on the field who was preparing for the Washington Nationals' home opener against the Philadelphia Phillies. Published April 14, 2009
Thom Loverro: Kasten shows Philly some brotherly love
Washington Nationals president Stan Kasten's pitch to Phillies fans to come to Monday's home opener at Nationals Park was so hard to believe, I called one of the hosts of the radio show, Jody McDonald, to make sure it checked out. Published April 13, 2009
Thom Loverro: BU claims its birthright by beating upstart Miami
Cody Reichard stood in front of the goal about 15 minutes before the start of the NCAA men's hockey title game at Verizon Center. Published April 12, 2009
LOVERRO: Parker is heart and soul of coaching
Boston University coach Jack Parker conducted a clinic Friday at Verizon Center — not a clinic on how to coach hockey, but a clinic on what it means to be a coach. Published April 11, 2009
Loverro: Bemidji’s tall tale
Beavers and Bunyan. How can you go wrong? Published April 9, 2009
Thom Loverro: Little charm in Teixeira’s debut
The price Mark Teixeira paid for that lucrative deal is that he has become what he would have hated as a kid: a Yankee. Published April 7, 2009
Thom Loverro: Kasten’s own turmoil supersedes his team’s
Stan Kasten had just finished putting the pieces back together after the Dominican baseball scandal. He was at the Washington Nationals' spring training complex in Viera, Fla., meeting with fellow owner Mark Lerner and chief operating officer Alan Gottlieb when he got a call from his daughter. Published April 6, 2009
Time to step forward, not backward
The Nationals should see nearly a 20 percent improvement over last season's embarrassing 59-102 record. Published April 6, 2009
LOVERRO: Medieval football debuts in D.C.
Ninety feet above the floor of the D.C. Armory, workers carefully lowered the goal posts from the ceiling. Published April 4, 2009
LOVERRO: A labor of the toughest love
Michigan State, North Carolina, Villanova and Connecticut will guard each other, fake each other, drive on each other and shoot over each other this weekend at the Final Four. Published April 2, 2009
LOVERRO: Capitals can’t beat this heat
Washington Capitals coach Bruce Boudreau emerged from the locker room before Friday's game against the Tampa Bay Lightning, and all I could think of were the words to Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire." Published March 28, 2009
Thom Loverro: Tejada case stimulates the feds’ taste for blood
The cover of the Baltimore Orioles' 2005 media guide should wind up in Cooperstown if the Baseball Hall of Fame ever stages an exhibit to document the sport's steroid era. Published March 26, 2009
Thom Loverro: The only question here for Agent Zero: Why not?
The rational reaction to Gilbert Arenas' plan to return to the court from knee rehabilitation for the first time this season simply is to ask, "Why?" Published March 24, 2009
LOVERRO: Ovechkin skates into T.O. territory
Leave it to Bruce Boudreau, Mr. Unpretentious, to get to the heart of the matter of Alex Ovechkin's staged celebration of his 50th goal Thursday. Published March 21, 2009
Thom Loverro: Always expect the unexpected with A-Rod
All the news coming out of Tampa, Fla., about Alex Rodriguez's hip surgery has been good. Published March 10, 2009
LOVERRO: Caps should air out the funk
Earlier this week, Bruce Boudreau said his team's lackluster play of late was not particularly unusual. Published March 7, 2009
