Michael Kruse is a staff writer on the enterprise team at the Tampa Bay Times. His work has been recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press Sports Editors, the National Headliner Awards, the Society for Features Journalism and the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and in categories ranging from sports explanatory to business reporting, from short features in newspapers to long profiles in magazines. He won a Green Eyeshade in 2009, SFJ's short story award in 2010 and ASNE's distinguished nondeadline writing award in 2011. Before the Times, he worked at the Times Herald-Record in New York's Hudson Valley, where he covered two towns and Major League Baseball and was the paper's writer at large. He's the author of Taking The Shot: The Davidson Basketball Moment and has written for ESPN, Yahoo! Sports, Charlotte magazine and Parade. Kruse, 34, was born outside Los Angeles, was raised outside Boston and was educated at Davidson College in North Carolina.

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