Telich Talks

Jason Hicks claims he is just a kid from Cleveland. An Amazon professional, Hicks was executive producer for the movie “ Only Child” which was #1 on Starz . Jason is an entrepreneur, and former NAIA All American basketball player at Walsh University. He played high school hoops at Villa Angela High School in Cleveland , Ohio helping the Vikings to 3 straight Regional Finals appearances.

Markus Mollica was a 4 time NCAA all American wrestler at Arizona State University. He won a pair of National titles for the Sun Devils. One of the stalwarts from the highly regarded North Akron Wrestling Club feeder program, Mollica would win 2 state titles under coach Bill Barger at Walsh Jesuit high school and help propel the high school into national prominence, which forged the intense rivalr...

Clash of Dynasties is a four part docu series produced by St Edward wrestling alum Ben Hatta about the incredible rivalry between two of the nations greatest high school wrestling programs. St. Edward high school in suburban Cleveland, Ohio was the dominant team in America , 11 state titles, 8 national titles. Howard Ferguson built the Eagles . Their first title was in 1978. Along came brash Bill...

Tyler Sarkisian played four years of college baseball at the University of Chicago and was already climbing the corporate ladder in investment banking , working more than 100 hours each week, losing sleep and seeing his body feel the effects. Then, a year ago, he shifted his focus to his passion. Running, fitness, and endurance sports. Next thing you know he’s running marathons, doing Triathlons,...

Chuck Galeti is a former television sports anchor at both channels 3 and 19 in Cleveland, Ohio. Galeti, who played football and baseball at Normandy High school was also a radio sportscaster and hosted a post game call in show on cable tv called “ Chuck’s Last Call”. Galeti had several OVI charges as far back as 2003 and as recent as 2016. As a result he has lost everything, has been homeless, but...

JR Bremer is the head basketball coach of Cleveland Heights high school. His number 22 jersey was retired by the high school where he starred and helped win a state championship in 1997. Bremer played college basketball at Saint Bonaventure University and played 3 seasons in the NBA including the 2003 -04 season when LeBron James was a rookie. Bremer played 13 seasons overseas in over a half dozen...

Kevin Spencer has had a long and illustrious career as an assistant coach in theNational Football League. He was part of the staff that first came to Cleveland with Bill Belichick in 1991. He has won Super Bowls. He has been named the NFL special teams coach of the year. And now, in his early 70s, he continues to stay active in the game having this past season helped out on the staff at Saint Igna...

I returned to Ashland University today, which, along with the prodding of former Saint Ignatius football coach. Chuck Kyle, I talk about many of the qualities necessary to be successful in sports and take a peek into the future of sports media by interviewing one of the bright new talents in sports casting, Cade Cracas of Ashland University. In this episode, I mention examples of many great athlet...

Michael C a votta is a photographer who calls himself a Headshot Whisperer. He is the owner of Michael Cavotta Studios in Mentor, Ohio. Three d ecades after leaving the sport of track and field Cavotta picked up the shot put and discus and is now one of the top 3 in the world in shotput :M50 , and top ten in the discus. He describes himself as “a man being built on the bones of his lesser self”. 1...

Katie Spotz is a world adventurer from Mentor Ohio. In 2010 she became the youngest ever to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. That is just one of the dozens of epic adventures and challenges she has completed all the while trying to raise money for a clean water around the world and other initiatives. Her most recent adventure was 3,100 mile bike & kayak trip across South America. We discuss whe...

Martin Savidge is a network anchor/correspondent having reported from all over the world for CNN, NBC, Public television and others. Born in Canada, he is a Rocky River High School graduate and Ohio University alum. After short stints with Illinois tv stations he landed a job, in 1984 at WJW Channel 8 in Cleveland, winning 9 local Emmy Awards in 12 years. Since taking his skills to the networks, S...

Legendary Cleveland sportswriter and Media personality Danny Coughlin died over the weekend at the age of 86. He has been considered by many to be one of the greatest storytellers the city of Cleveland has ever had. He had a distinguished career as a sports writer with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and then in the early 80s branched out and became one of Cleveland‘s most popular TV personalities at...

The M iracle L eague of Lake County , Ohio for individuals, from children to adults that deal with developmental disabilities, physical limitations, down syndrome, autism, and other situations. Enjoy the chance to play baseball each summer on an adaptive ballfield next to Captains ballpark in Eastlake, Ohio. The program is reliant on buddies and coaches and many volunteers and sponsors, but there’...

Our Team is a fascinating book written by Luke Epplin that chronicles the World Series that changed baseball, and sports in general. It was 1948, won by the Cleveland Indians. Luke profiles owner Bill Veeck, pitcher Bob Feller, outfielder Larry Doby who was the first black man to play in the American League, and Satchel Paige, who was the first black to pitch in a World Series and already had myth...

The NEO24 is a fixed timed 24 hour race in Brunswick, Ohio. In this race, 12 people reached the 100 mile mark. Pete Kostelnick, who used to live in Brunswick ran 121 miles just 13 months after sustaining a fractured pelvis in a car crash. He has 3 big screws in his body..was in a wheel chair for 2 months and couldn’t run for 6 months. Kostelnick is a two time winner of Badwater 135 and owns the tr...

Mark Schroeder is the owner of Auction Brio. His business has raised over 175 million over 20 years for various charities all over the country. He is a licensed auctioneer after roughly 20 years at WJW Fox 8 in Cleveland as an award winning sportscaster. He is a native of Chicago, and played four years of football and baseball at John Carroll University. In the podcast, we discuss how he settled o...

Brian Verne is the founder and CEO of Wave Sports and Entertainment. The company , based in Santa Monica, California touts itself as the leader in sports storytelling for the next generation. Podcasts such as New Heights with the Kelce brothers, Podcast P with Paul George, 7PM in Brooklyn Melo & Mero, and The Right Time with Bomani Jones are some of the more high profile entities of Wave Sports. V...

Lance Reisland is a teacher, a writer and football analyst for cleveland.com and the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a former high school football coach, who left his head coaching position at Garfield Heights after the 2018 season to spend more time with his wife and daughter . He is the son of the late high school football coaching legend in Northeast Ohio, Chuck Reisland. Chuck passed aw...

Mark Price was one of the greatest shooters in NBA history. When he retired from the game, he had the highest percentage of free throw shooting in league history. He was a four-time NBA All-Star for the Cleveland Cavaliers out of Georgia Tech. In the 1988-89 season, Price achieved the 50 /40 /90 distinction. 50% shooting from the field, 40% from three-point line, and 90% from the free-throw line …...

Claude Holland was a 3 time All State athlete at Cleveland’s John Adam’s high, and a college track standout at the University of Cincinnati. He coached John Adams (1982) and Cleveland Heights (2008) to state track titles. Holland was named Nike National Track coach of the year,and is in the Ohio Association of track and cross country coaches Hall of Fame. He’s a highly regarded mentor of track ath...

Lauren Brill is the founder of The Unsealed, an online writing community that shares inspirational open letters that encourage strength and compassion. Brill is a former television sportscaster at stations WIVB in Buffalo, New York, and WEWS in Cleveland, Ohio and MSG Varsity in metropolitan New York, City. While in Cleveland , Brill wrote an open letter detailing her experience with sexual violen...

Martial Artist A.J. Perry was inducted into the World Traditional Martial Arts Hall of Fame in 2006. Master Perry was also inducted into the World Sokieship Council Hall of Fame in 2005. Now 64 years old, AJ is a 9th degree Grand Master and recent Gold Medalist in the Pan American Masters Games in Cleveland .

Andre Knott is an award-winning sports commentator in Cleveland Ohio. For many seasons, he has been the sideline/dugout voice during Bally sports broadcasts of the Guardians . Knott is a graduate of Akron St. Vincent St. Mary high school and Kent State University. He also provides radio commentary on ESPN Cleveland and appears on FOX 8 News broadcasts with his, decisive and hard hitting commentary...

Katie Moon is the reigning women’s Olympic pole vaulting champion. She heads to Paris where women’s vaulting qualifications are August 5th with-finals on the 7th. She hailsfrom Olmsted Falls, Ohio and was a multiple all American while vaulting for Ashland university. Katie was married to Hugh Moon on New Year’s Eve heading into 2023. She is a multiple world champion pole vaulter. In June she host...

Larry Orwin is taking on the Badwater 135 this year, his second attempt at finishing the grueling event, which begins in Death Valley, California and goes 135 miles to the trailhead of Mt. Whitney, 8,360 feet elevation. Larry is a board member for Breakthrough Schools,and raised nearly 150 k when he ran Badwater in 2022. He will be raising money again this year. ( Instagram acct. @friendsofbreakth...