Ray Ratto has been a

San Francisco Bay Area The San Francisco Bay Area, often referred to as simply the Bay Area, is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bay estuaries in Northern California. The Bay Area is defined by the Association of Bay Area Go ...

sportswriter since the 1970s and a sports columnist since the 1980s. A lifelong resident of

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, Ratto was a Senior Insider for the TV station '' NBC Sports Bay Area'' (''formerly Comcast Sportsnet Bay Area'') from 2010 to 2019, and wrote columns for their website. He has also written national columns fo
espn.com
as well as CBS
sportsline.com
Beginning his column-writing career for two now-defunct newspapers, '' The National'' and the ''

Peninsula Times Tribune The ''Peninsula Times Tribune'' was a daily newspaper serving Palo Alto, Redwood City, and neighboring cities in the San Francisco Peninsula of California. It was published by the Tribune Newspaper Company from 1979 to 1993. History The ''Times ...

'', Ratto later became a staff writer then a columnist for the '' San Francisco Examiner'' and then the ''

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'' before moving to TV. He has also co-hosted radio shows on both

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and

KGMZ-FM KGMZ-FM (95.7 MHz, "95.7 The Game") is a sports radio station licensed to San Francisco, California, and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The station is owned by Audacy, Inc., and broadcasts from studios on Battery Street (shared with CBS ...

. Ratto was a regular on the NBC Sports Bay Area show "The Happy Hour" before his termination from NBCSBA in late 2018. In 2019 he was a contributor at ''

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'' and wrote columns for the ''

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''. Ratto is one of 60 sportswriters whose ranking of college football teams makes up the

AP Poll The Associated Press poll (AP poll) provides weekly rankings of the top 25 NCAA teams in one of three Division I college sports: football, men's basketball and women's basketball. The rankings are compiled by polling 62 sportswriters and broad ...

. Ratto is currently employed by KGMZ-FM, better known as 95.7 The Game, and is part of the 3–6 pm Monday thru Friday program ''Damon & Ratto'' with Damon Bruce. Ratto is also a staff writer for Defector, a site started by former Deadspin staffers after that site’s mass resignations in 2019.

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External links

Ratto archive at the CSNBA web siteCBS Sportsline Ratto pageRatto archive at SFGate.comInterview With Ratto About the 1989 San Francisco GiantsPollspeak.com Ray Ratto Week 1 ballot
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