Name: Barry Svrluga
Position: Tenuous
Hometown: Scituate, Mass
College: Duke University
First job in journalism: Staff writer, The Leader, Corning, N.Y
At Washington Post since: 2003
Favorite Sport: Baseball, college basketball, golf
Favorite Athlete: Larry Bird
Favorite Team: Boston Red Sox
Favorite Writer (Other than Tom Boswell): Tom Boswell
Favorite Moment at Post: Covering women’s Olympic marathon, Athens, Greece, 2004; covering baseball’s return to Washington, April 14, 2005; covering opening of Nationals Park and Zimmerman walk-off homer, March 30, 2008
Favorite Moment on WPL: That time when I said that incoherent thing