 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.