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Ray Ratto has been a San Francisco Bay Area sportswriter since the 1970s and a sports columnist since the 1980s. He co-hosts "Damon, Ratto & Kolsky" each weekday from 2-6pm on 95.7 The Game and writes columns for the website weekly, or whenever he damn well pleases.

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. Ratto has co-hosted radio shows in the Bay Area for the past decade. He was a regular on the NBC Sports Bay Area show "The Happy Hour." He was a contributor at Deadspin and also writes columns for the San Jose Mercury News. Ratto is one of 60 sportswriters whose ranking of college football teams makes up the AP Poll.

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    May 19, 2021
  • Ratto: Fisher played his last card, and the reaction was, ‘Fine, go’ Threat to relocate viewed as transparent attempt to leverage money from Oakland
    Sports
    May 14, 2021
  • Ratto: 90 is great, but 661 rather than 660 works too This gift beats anything else the legend will get today
    Sports
    May 6, 2021
  • Ratto: In drafting Trey Lance, Shanahan did what he always does, hide in plain sight
    Sports
    April 30, 2021
  • Ratto: Shanahan and Lynch are either ridiculously open books or glorious deceivers Attempting to suss out the No. 3 pick has largely been an exercise in uninformed ego
    Sports
    April 26, 2021
  • Ratto: They may want to list the final score as Stanford 20, COVID 19 The Cardinal put an end to their 29-year wait for a title with win over Arizona
    Sports
    April 5, 2021
  • Ratto: It’s time for Treystin Lancelson to learn at the elbow of J. Richard Garoppolo
    Sports
    March 26, 2021
  • Ratto: That's the thing about worrying about rosters you don't control, someone else figures it out for you On the 49ers overnight shopping spree to shore up the o-line
    Sports
    March 17, 2021
  • Ratto: Getting in on the Bitcoin craze seems perfectly A’s, and totally misses the point More sweat and more spending required for club to re-obtain their share of the market
    Sports
    March 16, 2021
  • Ratto: To worry about this year or next? That answer lies in 1 central truth On the dilemma confronting the average as hell Warriors
    Sports
    March 5, 2021
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