Telich Talks

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 has pulled things together and now hasn’t had a drink in 3 years. He recounts harrowing medical cardiac events and praised the toughness of late Browns announcer Jimmy Donovan who passed away in October.

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 leagues in various countries. He was named the head basketball coach in 2019 at Cleveland Heights high school where he coaches to this day. In the closing segment I refer to his foundation… Everything Leads Back. I hope you check that out !! Lately he has been a competitor in the sport of HYROX. He is the grandson of a Negro league pitcher Eugene Bremer

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 Ignatius high school. As you hear in the interview, it really wasn’t the sport of Football that helped hook him up with Bill Belichick. It was lacrosse.

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 athletes who epitomized some of the shining adjectives that SPORT revolves around. Many former and current colleagues, and sports stars are mentioned.

Michael Cavotta is a photographer who calls himself a Headshot Whisperer. He is the owner of Michael Cavotta Studios in Mentor, Ohio. Three decades 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”. 15 years ago he had all the toys money could buy being a successful entrepreneur. A story teller for startups as he called it. Cavotta stepped away from all the financial trappings when he picked up that camera lens. Now, back in track and field,he is flourishing as a masters athlete, all the while dealing with prostate cancer. We talk about his natural approach to fighting the cancer and about what it was like being the son of a successful track and field athlete.

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 where fear comes into the equation, and how she comes by these adventures in an organic way. In other words, there’s no bucket list. Katie wrote a book in 2015 called Just Keep Rowing. She’s done numerous media appearances over the years, including The Joe Rogan Experience.

Her non profit established in 2011 is called Schools for Water

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, Savidge has covered 12 world conflicts, countless natural disasters, including Katrina.

He’s won 2 Headliners Awards, 2 Edward R. Murrow Awards. A Peabody and a duPont Columbia Award.

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 WJW. I have been his colleague for 44 years. And still as recent as last Friday night was on the set with him on our popular high school football show , Friday Night Touchdown. This episode will also contain a podcast episode we had in 2019 and he talks about how the JFK assassination altered his career path. Also Browns legend Doug Dieken sat down with me on Sunday for a few stories about Dan Coughlin. Thanks for listening !

The Miracle League 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’s a reason each week players can say they’ve been on the happiest acre in Lake County. I visited on the final Saturday of the season. Thank you to commissioner Mike Piper and everyone for their hospitality.

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 mythical and legendary status. This is the 100th episode of Season 2.