W.G.Ramirez

Willie G. Ramirez

Willie Ramirez credits 1987 as the year he saw his first byline published in the Las Vegas Sentinel-Voice, the state’s only African-American newspaper. Since then he's covered sports throughout Southern Nevada. He was the Southern Nevada correspondent for USA Today high-school sports during the early 90s, and since 2012 has been a freelance correspondent for the Associated Press. He is also a content provider in the sports-gaming industry, having provided columns and analyses on various sports.

Willie has won several page design awards with the Sentinel-Voice and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As sports editor of the Sentinel-Voice, he led the production of a UNLV Runnin' Rebel pullout section that was submitted and earned Best Sports Page by the West Coast Black Publishers Association. As an agate clerk with the Review-Journal, he won Best Complex Design using PageDesign for a backpage scoreboard previewing Super Bowl XXX in 1996.

Willie remains a Southern Nevada correspondent for AP, in addition to serving as a freelance writer for several media outlets. He is also a radio host on ESPN Las Vegas, serving as co-host on Cofield and Company, and host of Throw The Flag and the Westgate Sunday Preview Show during the football season.