Ray Ratto

Ray Ratto (born 1954) has been a San Francisco Bay Area sportswriter since the 1970s and a sports columnist since the 1980s.

Ray Ratto
OccupationSports journalist, columnist

A lifelong resident of Alameda, California, he 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 for 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, Ratto later became a staff writer then a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner and then the San Francisco Chronicle before moving to TV. He has also co-hosted radio shows on both KNBR and KGMZ-FM. Ratto was a regular on the NBC Sports Bay Area show "The Happy Hour" before his termination from NBCSBA in late 2018. [1][2][3] In 2019 he was a contributor at Deadspin and wrote columns for the San Jose Mercury News.[4] Ratto is one of 60 sportswriters whose ranking of college football teams makes up the AP Poll.[5]

Ratto currently is employed by KGMZ-FM, better known as 95.7 The Game, and is part of the 2–6 pm Monday thru Friday program Damon Ratto and Kolsky with Damon Bruce and Matt Kolsky. Ratto is also a staff writer for Defector, a site started by former Deadspin staffers after that site’s mass resignations in 2019.

References
  1. Barney, Chuck (January 2, 2019). "Ray Ratto is out at NBC Sports Bay Area/California". The Mercury News. San Jose, California.
  2. Disbrow, Bill (January 3, 2019). "Ray Ratto's 'tour of duty' ends at NBC Sports Bay Area". SFGate.
  3. Curtis, Bryan (January 25, 2019). "The World According to Ray Ratto". The Ringer.
  4. Stone, Larry (September 27, 2010). "MLB awards too close to call this year". The Seattle Times. Archived from the original on February 9, 2012.
  5. Missoulian, FRITZ NEIGHBOR. "San Francisco writer gives Griz lone vote in AP's FBS Top 25 poll". Helena Independent Record.
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