Barry Svrluga is a sports columnist for The Washington Post, WashingtonPost.com, and is a frequent contributor on The Tony Kornheiser Show.

Barry Svrluga graduated from Duke University and has written for a number of newspapers, from The Leader (Corning) in Corning, New York, to The Portland Press Herald in Maine to The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, before joining The Washington Post.

He later covered the Washington Redskins and he has been a regular member of the Post's Olympic coverage team.

As beat writer, Svrluga was present the night Barry Bonds hit his 756th home run and wrote the companion piece from the perspective of Nationals starting pitcher Mike Bacsik to Washington Post reporter Dave Sheinin's account of the record breaking home run.

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