Telich Talks

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.

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 transcon record of just 42 days. He’s just one of the stories…. Ed “ Jester” Ettinghausen was running in his 300th, 100 mile race. You read that right. How he came to running these races was born out of the real estate crash in 08. I also interview woman’s overall winner Gina Snyderburn, and Mike Melton, the timing guy who does these events more than 40 weekends a year. Shout out to Race Director Larry Orwin.

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 on John Carroll University…why Woody Hayes punching a college football player changed his life. We also discuss why JCU has 42 alums involved in various front office and coaching jobs in the National Football League. What’s the secret to getting great bids at an auction? Mark will fill us in.

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.

Verne , a Cleveland, Ohio native is a former college baseball player at Oberlin College. He started Wave Sports in early 2017. He is also a tortured Cleveland Sports fan. Aren’t we all!!

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 away in September of 2023 and this fall, Lance is developing his craft as a sports journalist, and trying to get used to not having his father around to take in the sport they both love so much. Our discussion is a lot about the Football Legacy his father placed in front of him. We also broke down some of the Cleveland Browns prospects for 2024.

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 ……….. at the time he was only the second person to ever accomplish that behind Larry Bird. Also adding to his resume, Price was a two time NBA 3 point shooting champ. Price was one of the stars on the Cavalier teams coached by Lenny Wilkens in the late 80s and early 90s. They were one of the more dominant Eastern conference teams, but usually ran up against either the Bulls or the Pistons. In light of Steph Currys Olympic barrage of crucial 3 pointers, I directed most of my questioning about shooting; What is the mentality of a shooter?

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 athletes, and often the voice at many track meets all over the region. He started the Rebel track club years ago which has produced many state finals caliber athletes . His late mother, Bernice Robinson Holland was a 1948 Olympic track and field standout. With the Paris Olympic games in the second week we talked about some of the highlights so far and about Hollands approach to coaching.

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 violence while in college . The online letter went viral, and in a way, led to her starting The Unsealed on July 24,2019.

Since its inception, the on line community has shared inspiring letters of people from close to 200 countries worldwide. For Lauren, it’s always been about story telling.