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Michael J. Duarte is an American sports writer and reporter with the KNBC-TV broadcast team in Los Angeles, California.

Duarte is a native of Los Angeles where he participated in soccer, track, cross country, football, baseball, and basketball.

He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of California Santa Barbara, where he won the Paul Lazarus Scholarship Award and the Corwin Writing Award.

After stints as a freelance writer for multiple online sports publications, Duarte became the Sports Editor for the Newsweek Group’s Latin Times in 2014 where he wrote and oversaw a team of sports writers covering the global and Los Angeles sports market until 2016. Duarte joined the NBC team in Los Angeles as a beat writer for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2015 and ascended to the role as a Southern California Sports columnist, regularly writing about the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Rams, USC Trojans, and more.

Known as much for his sharp wit in sports news storytelling as his detailed sports features, Duarte is a two-time short-list nominee for the prestigious Southern California Journalism Awards in the category of sports feature writing. He is a frequent guest on national sports radio, and is a co-host of the popular Bolts By The Horns podcast.