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  • Thom Loverro: Capitals drop the Hammer on Southeast Division again

    Thom Loverro

    Updated: Wed, Apr 24, 2013

    Another Southeast Division banner -- the seventh and last -- will hang from the rafters of Verizon Center after the Washington Capitals clinched the division title and a Stanley Cup playoff appearance with a 5-3 win Tuesday night at home. Man, the Caps are sure going to miss the Southeast...

  • Thom Loverro: Time to give Nationals' Ryan Zimmerman the third degree

    Thom Loverro

    Updated: Mon, Apr 22, 2013

    While Anthony Rendon was showing everyone he was a major league hitter with four home runs and 11 RBI in 13 games during spring training, I asked Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo whether the former No. 1 pick would have made the Nats' Opening Day roster if this was 2010. "I...

  • Thom Loverro: Wizards have been Monumentally bad under leadership of Ernie Grunfeld

    Thom Loverro

    Published: Sat, Apr 20, 2013

    My Twitter tally of Ernie Grunfeld's "Monumental" record as general manager of the Washington Wizards started in the midst of their 0-12 start. Everyone was having a good laugh over the losing streak -- at least the basketball fans left in this town who still cared were. I thought anger...

  • Thom Loverro: At sporting events, it's going to take a while to feel safe again

    Thom Loverro

    Updated: Wed, Apr 17, 2013

    When I was at Verizon Center last week for a Capitals game, the woman in charge of checking the contents of briefcases and the like of anyone entering the building early joked about the number of different colored tags attached to my bag. "You've got a regular rainbow there," she said as she...

  • Thom Loverro: Sixty years later, still feeling Mickey Mantle's clout in D.C.

    Thom Loverro

    Updated: Mon, Apr 15, 2013

    When Bryce Harper crushed a home run into the second deck at Nationals Park last Wednesday, the crowd marveled at the distance and sheer power. The sound of the ball leaving the bat was like no other we have heard. Well, if you are quiet enough, maybe you can still hear the sound of perhaps...

  • Thom Loverro: Trying to turn the tide for blacks in baseball -- starting at home

    Thom Loverro

    Updated: Sat, Apr 13, 2013

    Major League Baseball announced last week it is forming a task force to study ways to reverse the decline of black players in the game, who this season make up an all-time low of 7.7 percent of major league rosters. They might want to talk to Antonio Scott. Scott is a 34-year-old black...

  • Thom Loverro: Brian Helgeland shows Jackie Robinson's burden in '42'

    Thom Loverro

    Updated: Wed, Apr 10, 2013

    Two years ago, Brian Helgeland's 81-year-old father called him at his home in California. He had a request of his son: Could the writer/director come back to Rhode Island and join his father on a pilgrimage of sorts to Brooklyn, where his father grew up? "Out of the blue he called me and said...

  • Thom Loverro: Capitals stuck in the past

    Thom Loverro

    Updated: Mon, Apr 8, 2013

    The Washington Capitals are one of the hottest teams in the NHL, making a late season run under a rookie coach to try to squeeze into the Stanley Cup playoffs. It's 2008 all over again. Shouldn't the Caps have progressed over the past six years? Look, the Caps have played great hockey of...

  • Thom Loverro: It's time for baseball to cash in on contract disparity with NFL

    Thom Loverro

    Published: Sat, Apr 6, 2013

    Major League Baseball should use the last week of March as a recruiting tool to get young star athletes to pursue baseball as their career. Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander signed a seven-year, $180 million contract -- the richest contract in baseball history for a pitcher, until...


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