Telich Talks

Pam Rickard is a marathoner and ultra marathoner who serves as an inspiration to many through her work with the Herren Project. Rickard spoke to me May of 2019 on episode 16 of my podcast. She details how she had 3 dui’s and wound up in jail before she got sober. As director of active engagement, she has grown Team Herren Project in a vibrant community of more than 1,000 teammates nationwide. ( co...

Chet Mason is the head basketball coach at Brush High school in Northeast Ohio. Recently, he was on the coaching staff for Team USA under 16 squad that won the Americas competition down in Mexico. Mason has an extensive international background as a professional player and began his basketball career as a star at South high school, and then Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is a former Mr. Bask...

Camryn Justice is a tv sports reporter at WEWS TV in Cleveland, Ohio. From her early years playing football with the boys , she’s always pushed the envelope. How did she work her way onto the air? Her story is one of determination and hustle . You can find her on social media at @camijustice

Sandy Alomar, Junior is one of the greatest players in Cleveland Indians baseball history. A six-time all-star, who helped fuel the baseball Renaissance in Cleveland in the early 90s remains with the organization as first base coach. We discussed the origins of his career, the great times in the 90s And how Cleveland baseball can move forward with Jose Ramirez and this year‘s team.

Marc Ranallo is an artist. His love of art was born out of an intensely traumatic event at age 11. Marc was struck by a car and suffered, among many injuries, a traumatic brain injury. But with the great love he has received from his mother and friends, Marc is living his life to the best of his ability. As far as the art is concerned, I encourage you to go to his website www.marcranalloart.com my...

Babe Kwasniak is a Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army. He was youngest named when appointed . CASA appointees support soldiers for life. He is also the basketball coach at Cornerstone Christian Academy. Kwasniak spoke of his battles with depression and of the dark moment when he tried to take his own life .He said that 60% of service members who take their own lives, don’t even deploy. It’...

Mitch Hewitt is a two time state champion football coach at Chardon high school in Ohio. Mitch was a stand out player at Chardon and led his team to the state finals his senior year. We talked about Mitch playing for a young Urban Meyer at Bowling Green State University, and how their relationship continues to this day, we talked of the coaching fraternity, about the influence of the cell phone an...

I ran 70 miles in the Outrun 24 hour Trail Race at Chapin Forest in Kirtland, Ohio. I met my goal which was to run my age (69) plus one year since I would turn 70 in mid June. I have done endurance sports, marathons, triathlons, and ultra marathons every year since age 23. It’s a lifelong dedication to striving to see what I am made of. Competing mostly with myself keeps me coming back for more. I...

Anthony Lima is co host of the morning drive show on 92.3 The Fan in Cleveland with Ken Carman. He is a Cleveland area native who studied media and political science in college. He got his start in media by call into radio sports shows at age 12 and used the name Sportsboy Tony. Lima also has anchored tv sports in various markets, including Cleveland. WOIO. He does college football commentary on E...

Virgil Dominic was a tv anchorman, national radio newsman early in his career, but gained the most notoriety by taking 3rd place tv station news operations to the top in two markets. Atlanta ( WAGA) and Cleveland ( WJKW, now WJW, Fox 8) Dominic built the Newscenter 8 brand to big heights and touted “ Cleveland’s Own”, news anchors and reporters who had histories of being Clevelanders ( with some e...

Mark Godale was an ultra marathon legend and national record holder from Akron , Ohio who died in June of 2022 at age 51. He and his brother Steve had a streak of 29 straight Boston Marathons through April of 2022. This year, Steve will hit #30, bittersweet no doubt. Episode 11, April 2019 I ran with Mark,and then recorded this interview. Just trying to keep the legacy alive. RIP Mark.

Dale Davison, a Collinwood railroader, and Navy veteran, had a drive and a passion to get on the air to talk sports……….To pursue the dream, the father of three has had to work countless, partime jobs to make ends meet and to grind behind the scenes to wait for a break. His entree into the business came on a phone call, to talk show host Tony Rizzo on ESPN Cleveland . Next thing you know he was get...

My commentary on how sports innovations are sometimes just tweaks or adjustments. How Paul Brown was ahead of his time and the Fosbury Flop was one of the greatest innovations in history. #Football #Fosbury #MLB #Browns Thanks to Football Life. mlb.com

Golfer Julian Lewis recorded the rarest of golf feats. A double Eagle, followed the next hole by a hole in one at Quail Hollow in Ohio. He talked about how his late brother may have been guiding the ball and why it’s amazing he even played golf that day, October, 1, 2002. #golf #holeinone #doubleEagle

Brecksville-Broadview Heights Bees won their 20th straight state title in gymnastics recently..That’s a national record. Maria Schneider is the head coach and she grew up in the program that was started and led by her mom Joan Ganim, and her late father Ron. In all, the Bees have won 23 state titles. Gym World in Broadview Heights is where hundreds and hundreds of young, aspiring gymnasts have tra...

Wayne Dawson, began his tv career ,back in the late seventies at the station he has always been at. Channel 8…. Fox 8 here in Cleveland Ohio . Dawson wasn’t supposed to be on tv.. he wanted to be a sportswriter.. We talk about his teenage years when he strayed from a purposeful path, to his Kent State days and recall when he was given a big break by Virgil Dominic. Wayne was in a reporter training...

Rob Ostrom knows what it’s like to carry around, what is in essence, a replica of himself. The 46, year old St. Edward high and Boston U product is more than a year into a very successful weight loss. A weight loss that sparked thunderous reaction on social media. Since bariatric surgery, done at the former St. Vincent Charity Hospital in Cleveland, Ostrom, who works in the Financial Service indus...

Dr. Richard Schlenk is a neurosurgeon at the world renowned Cleveland Clinic and is also a guitar builder with a charitable angle. He began making custom guitars close to 4 years ago. He had never done anything connected to the construction of a guitar before. It’s all self taught with much help from lots of videos. In his wood shop at his home in Shaker Heights, Ohio he shapes, and puts together...

I have been taking 3 minute long cold showers for two months..and haven’t missed a day..first thing in the am. In this episode, which I can attest, began IN THE SHOWER, I talk of the benefits I have derived and hear from the ICEMAN, legendary extreme athlete Wim Hof, courtesy JRE. Also, thanks to Dr. Andrew Huberman , and Dr. Susanna Soberg for expertise #coldexposure Covert art photo courtesy IMD...

Marla Ridenour became the first woman beat reporter , covering the Cleveland Browns for the Dayton Daily News in 1981. Prior to that, she was the first woman editor of the Eastern Kentucky University student newspaper in 1975. In recent months, she retired as sports columnist from the Akron Beacon Journalist. She has won numerous honors from the Associated Press, the PFWA, and the Golf Writers Ass...

Dave Lee Morgan is a Stow High teacher who in his previous career as a sportswriter, wrote of the Rise to fame by LeBron James. He has written 8 books. The latest is about trailblazing NFL Hall of Fame legend Marion Motley. Morgan worked on a Emmy winning documentary on Motley, and helped the city of Canton erect a statue in Motleys honor. He has also written extensively about Jim Tressel and Youn...

Kahari Hicks is a teach and Cleveland Heights High assistant football coach . He started a program, with head coach Mac Stephens, blessing called Build the Bridge in the summer of 2020. It sought to engage schools with players of distinctively different backgrounds so that they could better understand each other. In three years, the program has grown, with the Cleveland Browns becoming a strong pa...

Rob Powers is the nightly news co anchor for Channel 5, WEWS, here in Cleveland Ohio. The Holy Name high school grad’s career began in Binghamton New York, where the money was so lean he was close to taking a job selling women’s shoes. Through it all he has also anchored sports in Toledo, Ohio, Indianapolis , Indiana, and a seven year stint anchoring sports in New York City, while also handling Go...

Lecharles Bentley starred at st. Ignatius high, was all American at Ohio state and was a multiple time Pro Bowl lineman with the saints. After signing a free agent contract with his home team, the Cleveland browns , Bentleys career was cut short when he tore his patellar tendon on the first play of training camp in 2006. . Subsequent surgeries and a staph infection sabotaged a comeback and Bentley...

Corwyn Collier was on military duty in Iraq, in May of 2009, when a bomb exploded, severely injuring his right leg and hand. The former track star at Southern Mississippi was devastated. Dark Thoughts haunted him. But he persevered. Today, Collier is a teacher and a coach at his Maple Heights, Ohio alma mater. He has written a book and ,looks to use his so called notoriety to inspire others. As us...