Ray Ratto has been a

San Francisco Bay Area The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a List of regions of California, region of California surrounding and including San Francisco Bay, and anchored by the cities of Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose, California, S ...

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 ''

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'' (''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 ''

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'' and then the ''

San Francisco Chronicle The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. It was founded in 1865 as ''The Daily Dramatic Chronicle'' by teenage brothers Charles de Young and M. H. de Young, Michael H. ...

'' 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. 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. Ratto is a staff writer for Defector, a site started by former

staffers after that site’s mass resignations in 2019.

References

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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