Paul Gutierrez

Paul Gutierrez is an award-winning sports journalist who, since 1995, has worked for Sports Illustrated, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Sacramento Bee, CSNBayArea.com and ESPN.

At the Review-Journal, he covered the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels and Shawn Marion before covering USC hoops with Pac-10 player of the year Sam Clancy in Los Angeles, when Gutierrez voted for the Wooden Award.

Gutierrez, a former Baseball Writers’ Association of America San Francisco/Oakland chapter president, voted for the Baseball Hall of Fame from 2011 through 2023. He is also a member of the Pro Football Writers of America, serving as Las Vegas chapter chair from 2020-24, and previously voted for the Associated Press NFL Awards. In 2024, Gutierrez became a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Selection Committee. He is also a member of the California Chicano News Media Association and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

The Barstow Community College and UNLV graduate is a Freedom Forum Chips Quinn Scholar and Sports Journalism Institute alum. Gutierrez grew up in the Southern California high desert town of Barstow, where he began his sports journalism career as a junior college stringer at his hometown Desert Dispatch.

Gutierrez was selected as the 2024 Exceptional Alumni Award recipient from Barstow Community College. His 2023 ESPN.com article on Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby’s “obsession for greatness” won a PFWA Dick Connor Writing Award, taking first place in the Lesley Visser Enterprise News/Features division.

Gutierrez has authored three books: Tommy Davis’ Tales from the Dodgers Dugout, 100 Things Raiders Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die and If These Walls Could Talk: Stories from the Raiders Sideline, Locker Room and Press Box with Lincoln Kennedy. He is also a columnist for Raiders.com as well as a lecturer at Sonoma State University.

His wife, Amy, is a social media reporter, producer and ambassador for the San Francisco Giants, and they have two children.