Greg Papa is an American sportscaster working in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been broadcasting for most of the Bay Area professional sports franchises for 21 years covering the Oakland Raiders, Oakland Athletics, Golden State Warriors and San Francisco Giants. Currently, he is best known as the radio play-by-play caller for the Raiders.

During the first couple days of training camp this year, I saw him strolling the grounds of the Silver and Black and immersing himself into their culture. He was able to walk through parts of practice that weren't accessible to other reporters and I'm sure that's simply because of the reputation he's built throughout his broadcasting career as the voice of the Raiders.

At one point, when all the photographers, reporters and beat writers were standing in a crowd, somebody commented on the recent news about former Boston Red Sox sluggers Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz testing positive for performance enhancing drugs in 2004. The guy said, "Hey did you hear about Ortiz and steroids?" Everybody looked at the guy and Papa replied, "Russ Ortiz?" Of course the original guy was talking about David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox and Papa thought he was talking about former Giants pitcher Russ Ortiz. It was pretty hilarious. You gotta respect a guy like Papa who automatically thinks anything sports related has something to do with the Bay Area.