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Cameron Joyce is the head coach of the St. Ignatius Wildcats State champion basketball team in Cleveland, Ohio. He just finished his 5th season and has already taken the Wildcats to the Final Four 3 times, with this years team winning it all. Joyce is the son of legendary Akron St. Vincent St. Mary coach Dru Joyce II. His older brother Dru was just…

Tom Withers has been the Associated Press sports writer in Cleveland, Ohio for the better part of three decades. He has scored numerous scoops and continues on a day-to-day basis as one of the most respected sports voices in the business. Before he became a full-time sports writer, Tom worked in what could be described as Ground Zero concerning the…

Andre Bernier is a multi Emmy award-winning meteorologist at WJW Fox 8 in Cleveland Ohio. He is also an ordained pastor, and has served as an interim pastor at several NEOhio churches over the years. Bernier has done more than 600 episodes to date of his very popular Weather Jazz podcast. www.weatherjazz.com Andre is a product of New Bedford, Massa…

Joe Jurevicius is a former NFL football player, who played in three Super Bowls, winning one of them, with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2002. Jurevicius is a Lake Catholic, Ohio graduate and starred at Penn State University. Joe and his family have dealt with personal tragedy and heartbreak. His infant son Michael died shortly after the Super Bowl v…

Author David Lee Morgan talks about the book he wrote on the pro football great, who helped break the color barrier in the modern era. Marion Motley, Pro Football Hall of Famer starred with the Cleveland Browns in the AAFC and the NFL. Hailing from Canton, Ohio, Motley played fullback and linebacker on those title teams. He was named to the NFL’s 1…

Chris Fields is a former Ohio State University wide receiver. He hails from Painesville Ohio. In recent years, he has developed some unique businesses, one of which, the Buckeye Box, down in the Hocking Hills, pays tribute to his late brother James, who passed away to cancer. Fields played for three Ohio State coaches, Jim Tressel, Luke Fickell, an…

Greg Lockhart is a retired video journalist from Fox 8 television in Cleveland Ohio. The one time high school stand out at Cathedral, Latin , earned his degree from Kent State and then embarked on an award-winning news professional career at 3 tv stations in Cleveland, most notably WJW Fox 8. He was recently named the chairman of the Cleveland chap…

New book written about NFL, Hall of Famer, Joe Thomas, by Marc Bona and Dan Murphy --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-telich/message

Xavier Crocker is Chef Zae on social media. Much of his content this NFL season , on Instagram, and Tik Tok and elsewhere garnered a ton of attention . Check him out on Instagram @ChefZae23 . His popularity grew so much that Browns coaches played clips of his to the players and soon, they were singing his praises and a few have joined him on his Cr…

Are the sport of Pickleball was invented in 1965 up in the state of Washington. It was initially intended to be a backyard children’s game, but in recent years, it’s growth has exploded not just here in the United States, but across the world. I talked to a pair of aspiring pros, Katie Allan and Jason McNulty at The Wembley Club in Chagrin Falls, O…

George Veras is a 10 time national Sports Emmy award winning writer , producer and director of television live events and documentaries. He began his career at CBS sports producing the NFL Today, pregame shows for the NBA on CBS, MLB, boxing, two Pan Am games and two Winter Olympics. He produced 3 other Olympics for NBC, including the first HD tele…

Nate Ulrich is an enterprise, sports reporter and feature writer at the Akron Beacon Journal. He spent a dozen years as the day-to-day beat reporter covering the Cleveland Browns of the NFL. He is a Kent State University graduate, and during the podcast we spoke about the process of defining what is a great story, and then going about the business …

Adam Small is an endurance athlete, who has overcome a shattering experience. About one year ago, he was struck by a car while out, running and suffered a broken leg and a serious head injury. As a result , he had to learn to walk again, and with the injury, he experiences debilitating migraine headache that come on unannounced. But Small has a hug…

Paul McFadden was a two time Pro Bowl place kicker with the Philadelphia Eagles during his NFL career. He also kicked for the New York Giants and Atlanta Falcons. McFadden, is now the president of the Youngstown State University Foundation. He was NFC Rookie of the year in 1984. He is one of only 4 men to kick his whole career Barefoot. Tony Frankl…

Andre Knott is a media personality in Cleveland , Ohio. He is the tv baseball analyst for the Guardians , handles commentary on ESPN Cleveland radio, Fox 8 tv and has been co host of the popular A to Z podcast with Zac Jackson. Dre , who was sideline reporter for many years on the Browns radio network ,joined me to discuss, the success of the Brown…

This is the second edition of my Best of for this year . Thank you to Virgil Dominic, John Voso, Gabriella Kreuz, Ron Ross, Jack Mulhall, Dean Hall and Jessica Eye. And most of all, thank you for listening. Suggestions for pod jrtelich@yahoo.com. Please, if able, Follow, Subscribe, Rate and Review and share a favorite episode. --- Send in a voice m…

52 episodes this season and some great interviews. Impactful as well. On this episode, Corwyn Collier, Kahari Hicks, Babe Kwasniak, Mitch Hewitt, Dr. Richard Schlenk, Natalie Herbick, Sandy Alomar. It’s part One of the Best of Telich Talks for 2023. As always please rate and review and share..Thanks and Happy Holidays!!--- Send in a voice message: …

Robert Smith is a retired NFL running back for the Minnesota Vikings. He is listed as one of the 50 greatest Vikings in team history. Smith ran for close to 7000 yards in his career but decided to retire while still in his prime . He said he wanted to be healthy to enjoy life after football. Smith was a two-time Mr. Football award winner in the sta…

Jessica Eye is a retired mixed martial artist who competed as a flyweight in the UFC. She signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship in 2013. She retired in 2022. However, in 2016, after a split decision loss to Bethe Correia, Eye announced she was taking a year long hiatus from MMA competition. A horrific car accident caused by a drunk driver …

This is encore presentation of podcast dropped Feb, 27, 2023. Dr. Schlenk is a neurosurgeon at the Cleveland Clinic. He is also an ultra marathoner and puts of races with a charitable bent to them. His most fascinating work could be the custom guitars he constructs in his wood shop . All from scratch and all guitars are given away with the only edi…

Rob Pope, a veterinarian and marathon runner from Liverpool, England became the first person to replicate the epic run across America by Forrest Gump in the popular movie starring Tom Hanks. Pope, ran 15,621 miles during several cross country runs, hitting all the famous spots depicted. The run started during the US presidential election in 2016. S…

Shawn Spencer is the successful head basketball coach of the Rhodes high school team in Cleveland Ohio. His Rams won the city championship last season.Much of this podcast centers around his ability to emerge from the Hough projects and how he has been able to become a bright light to influence others. It’s a interview about Being exposed to how su…

Gabriella Kreuz is a former college track and field athlete, media personality, and advocate for non violence through her non profit “ Love Doesn’t Shove”. Kreuz endured a lengthy , abusive, toxic relationship with a high school boyfriend. His abuse followed her to college at John Carroll University. She takes us through the ordeal, and how she rec…

Friday Night Touchdown is a very popular weekly recap of high school football in northeast Ohio on Fox 8 tv. Our region is mad about football ( Pro Football began in Canton) and the show delivers the hilites every week. We take you along for a Friday night during playoff action and chat with Dan Coughlin, PJ Ziegler, Ken Carman and John Sabol. Nick…

Jack Mulhall of Euclid, Ohio is a retired gentleman, who, for a myriad of reasons, embarked on a spiritual journey on the famous Camino de Santiago, ( Way of St. James ) which is a 500+ mile walking route from France due west through northern Spain. ( There is actually a network of routes) It’s a spiritual journey, not necessarily religious in tone…

Natalie Herbick is a morning show cohost, and a news anchor woman on Fox 8 television in Cleveland Ohio. She opened up about her early 2023 diagnosis of breast, cancer, and of undergoing a double mastectomy. Cancer has been a factor in her family history. Her mother passed away just a few short years ago due to cancer. Natalie is a Pittsburgh nativ…

Paul, a Navy veteran and anesthesiologist has competed in many triathlons , including the famous and very difficult Escape from Alcatraz. But starting in 2009, he endured a harrowing medical saga, that involved heart surgery’s, deadly bacteria, infections and more, which culminated in an above knee amputation in January, 2020. But Paul , with great…

Dean Hall is a life coach based in Oregon. Roughly 10 years ago, Dean was still grieving the loss of his beautiful wife from 2 to 3 years previous. And Dean was suffering from lymphoma and leukemia. Frankly, he was dying. However, he discovered while going through some old artifacts at his home, something he had written as a little boy, a life goal…

Vince Cellini has enjoyed a more than 40 year career in television. It began at WJKW TV in Cleveland, Ohio in the early 80.s. He was a sports anchor at age 22 in the 9th largest tv market at the time. He went on to anchor sports for CNN, was the lead anchor for The Golf Channel, Turner Sports, NBA TV, The Learning Center and much, much more, includ…

Ron Ross is a 65 year old ultramarathon man who started his distance running career while at West Point back in 1976. He’s run more than 180 marathons and he goes much further. Ross is close to ninety, 100 mile ultramarathons and has a goal to get one hundred , 100’s. This year he ran in the toughest race on earth, the Badwater 135 miler in Death V…

Mark Termini is a Cleveland based multi billion dollar sports attorney, and agent. He is the man behind the groundbreaking contract negotiations on behalf of LeBron James, and many of the clients of Klutch sports. Termini started his agency Termini and Associates in 1986 in Cleveland, Ohio. He held his client, Jim Jackson of Ohio State out for the …

David Kahn designs golf courses all over America with his design company partner Tim Jackson of Jackson Kahn Design. In 2017 Kahn and his wife Karen found out their two daughters , Amelia and Makenzie had a rare disease .. Juvenile Batten Disease. It’s a fatal genetic disorder of the nervous system . David talks of golf course design and of dealing…

Tony Fisher played high school football as a Panther at Euclid High, college ball for Notre Dame, and played the bulk of his NFL career with the Green Bay Packers. Tony is coming full circle returning to Euclid high school as the Athletic Director. In our chat, Tony talked about playing with Brett Favre in Green Bay, about being recruited to Notre …

How do you measure or define success? With part of Joe Thomas’s Hall of Fame speech in Canton leading it off, I chatted with some Cleveland sports greats, Austin Carr, Greg Pruitt, Felix Wright, Reggie Langhorne and Carol Russo about ingredients for success in sports and life. Wright and Langhorne both played for Marty Schottenheimer, one of the be…

David Gilbert is the president and CEO of the Greater Cleveland sports commission and Destination Cleveland. He has helped spearhead the process of bringing dozens of big time sporting events to the city. NBA All-Star game, MLB All-Star game, the Women’s Final Four back in 2007 and coming up in 2024. …. the Pan-American Masters games in 2024….the N…

Akron, native and former Fox 8 broadcaster Mike Dipasquale is covering the Lionel Messi Miami invasion for WSVN TV in Miami. He has a solid professional relationship with owner David Beckham. ( see episode cover art). Mike has insight as to what it’s been like as the iconic athlete comes to the MLS. Dipasquale, himself, is an accomplished athlete, …

Jen Knott is the founder of Rec2Connect, a non profit that looks to utilize fully, inclusive recreational therapy programs to connect people with and without disabilities and their families to community recreation, wellness, and lifelong leisure skills. Rec2Connect.org . It’s a Northeast Ohio endeavor in 7 counties. On Instagram at @rec2connectfoun…

Daryl Ruiter has covered the day-to-day operations of the Cleveland Browns for the last 16 years. He has been in the Cleveland media for several decades. On top of his Browns duties,He also covers the Cleveland Guardians and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Ruiter is a member of the Pro Football Writers Association of America and hosts a Browns related pod…

Legendary sportswriter Bob Randazzo (Roberts) “ The Railbird” has had a storied career writing sports, mostly of horse racing . He covered every Kentucky Derby from Secretariat forward. Add to that several World Cups and more. And now, he’s a podcaster, teaming up with his daughter Maria Randazzo, who is a writer for Jon Stewart and does standup an…

John Voso, inspired by his little nephew, Richie White, who battled cancer for nearly half of his 4 years on earth, wrote a book detailing the journey of 23 individuals, both grownups and children . The project led to the publishing of the book “ Todays Heroes’ Surviving with Style” Voso, a former pro bowler, suffered a stroke 3 years ago. He talke…

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 commu…

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 U…

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 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.c…

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 …

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 …

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 member…

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 fr…

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 m…

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 Clevela…