Brendan Wiese

In 2001, Brendan Wiese began his professional radio career as an intern in the KTRS sports department. He worked under Jim Heuer and Jim Holder among others, and reunited with them both as colleagues in 2016.

Brendan began his on-air professional career in 2004 when he joined KRMS Radio at the Lake of the Ozarks. He has been the voice of Camdenton Laker football since 2006, and the TV/Radio voice for the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout, Lake Race, and OPA Championship Powerboat races since 2010. In addition to many broadcasting duties, Brendan has been the P.A. voice for UMSL athletics since 2014.

The St. Louis native graduated from CBC followed by Lindenwood University.

In his spare time, Brendan usually tries — and fails terribly — at golf. He attempts to quote Seinfeld, Arrested Development, and Ghostbusters whenever the situation calls for it, and even when it doesn’t. He is also an ardent supporter/player of Daily Fantasy Sports.

On the air and off, Brendan can talk baseball for hours upon hours. He believes that March Madness is the greatest sporting event of all time. And for some reason, he roots vigorously for Northwestern Football.

FRANK CUSUMANO

Frank has been a sportscaster at KSDK for over 30 years, where he has won 14 Emmys for his storytelling and sports coverage. Frank has been involved in St. Louis radio equally as long. He brings his sports insight as well as an extremely accomplished career in St. Louis to KTRS beginning in August 2024.

Frank played on DeSmet’s high school basketball state championship team which won 63 games in a row. After DeSmet, he played basketball for four year at UMSL. He is married to Monique and has three children: Alex, Brooke and Dom.

Bob Ramsey

Bob is a St. Louis native (Pattonville High School ‘74, Lindenwood University ‘78).

Bob worked for four years in Louisiana working in TV and as the play-by-play voice of Louisiana Tech. It was there he was the first to call NBA Hall of Famer Karl Malone, the Mailman.

Returning to St. Louis in 1985, Ramsey worked at KPLR TV where he won two emmys. Since then he was part of the team to bring all sports radio to St. Louis and has continued that role on various stations including as part of the first sports show to be number one in the market.

On the PBP side Ramsey has been the basketball voice of the Saint Louis University Billikens for 38 years, was with the St. Louis Ambush when they won a championship and spent parts of five seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals TV and Radio teams. Most recently, he is the voice of Lindenwood Lions football.

His awards include being named five time Missouri Broadcaster of the Year and inductions into the Halls of Fame at Pattonville High School, Saint Louis University, the Missouri Amateur Baseball HOF, The National Football Foundation, and his alma mater Lindenwood University.

Ramsey has three children and is married to Jen, his wife of 27 years.

Jay Randolph Sr.

Jay had a successful amateur golf career in the 1950s and has covered the PGA Tour & Champions Tour for over 30 years.

The George Washington University grad joined KMOX radio in 1966 followed by KSDK-TV in 1968. He worked 22 years for NBC Sports covering three Olympics, NFL, MLB, and College Basketball.

Jay is the son of former longtime United States Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia and has shaken hands with eight United States Presidents.

Jay and his late son Jay Jr were co-hosts of Fairways and Greens on KTRS until Jay Jr. passed in 2022.

Mike Kelly

In 1989, Mike Kelly was working at St. Louis radio station KMOX when general manager Robert Hyland came up with a side job for the Dupo, Illinois native and 1984 graduate of Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. Mizzou football broadcaster Bill Wilkerson had been hosting the head coach’s radio show in Columbia but was tired of making the weekly drive from St. Louis. Hyland suggested the 27-year-old Kelly take over as the new host of “Tiger Talk.” Thus began a partnership with Mizzou that would span five decades — and counting — and define Kelly as “The Voice of the Tigers. Two years later, Kelly would parlay his “Tiger Talk” role into becoming the radio play-by-play voice for Mizzou men’s basketball and in 1994 settled behind the microphone for Mizzou football.

His voice would become synonymous with the state’s flagship Division I college athletics program and provide the soundtrack to some of the most memorable and magical plays in Mizzou sports history. When the 2023-24 college basketball season tipped off, it marked Kelly’s 33rd as Mizzou’s play-by-play radio voice. In March 2023, he celebrated his 1,000th game calling Tigers basketball. The 2023 football season was his 30th as the radio voice of Mizzou’s program, having never missed a game since he took over in 1994.

As of 2024, Kelly had called Mizzou games in three conferences under seven basketball head coaches, four football head coaches, five athletics directors and worked alongside eight color analysts in basketball and football. Throughout his prolific career, Kelly, 62, has been named Missouri Sportscaster of the Year seven times by the National Sports Media Association and in 2017 was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame.

Howard Richards

Howard Richards is a Mizzou football radio analyst and can be heard on KTRS whenever the Tigers are playing.

He is a former member of the Mizzou Football team and a former NFL player for the Dallas Cowboys (1981-86) and the Seattle Seahawks (1987).

Previously he has served as a Special Agent for the Central Intelligence Agency and was also a real estate consultant in Virginia where he was a member of the Multi-Million Dollar Sales Club. As a member of the CIA, Richards provided security protection and conducted site advances for four CIA Directors/Deputy Directors.

Eli Hoff

Eli is an award-winning journalist who covers Mizzou sports for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His coverage includes game stories, detail-driven features, analysis and breaking news. Previously, he covered higher education and politics for the Columbia Missourian, routinely breaking stories in a competitive market. Eli worked as a Washington, D.C. correspondent for the Columbia Missourian and Missouri News Network, where he anchored a one-reporter bureau that provided breaking news and enterprise stories to more than 200 newspapers.

A deeply-reported narrative project of Eli’s was named the Hearst Journalism Awards’ Article of the Year for 2022, one of the highest collegiate journalism honors. Hearst also awarded his story first place in its feature writing competition and named Eli a finalist in its national championship. He has won awards in investigative, feature, news, education and sports writing categories. The New York Times highlighted Eli’s “dogged” reporting in a 2020 feature about student journalists’ coverage of Covid-19.Eli has been developing his journalistic skills since he launched a soccer news site at 14. Eli has reported on national and state politics, sports, education and public health in the eight years since. Eli’s work has appeared in the Columbia Missourian, the Columbia Daily Tribune, the Jefferson City News Tribune, Major League Soccer, SB Nation, Vox Magazine and been syndicated by the Associated Press.

His versatile skill set — including investigative reporting, feature writing and documentary production — has been honored by the Hearst Foundation, the Associated Press Sports Editors, Society of Professional Journalists and Missouri Press Association. In addition to his professional work, Eli is pursuing a graduate degree at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. His research focuses on how sports journalists can better use analytics to inform fans.

Jim Powers

Jim is THE AUTHORITY on St. Louis High School Sports. A fixture on many local radio stations for High School Coverage, Jim gives you inside information on all the best games and prospects in town. He has been a contributor to Fox 2 sports for many years as the Host of High School Sports Caravan. In addition to his coverage of high school athletics, Jim has served as Athletic Director at Rosati Kain and Bishop DuBurg High Schools. Jim has also covered College athletics as the director of Broadcasting and Athletic Communications at Maryville University and is currently the Sports Information Director for the Sooner Athletic Conference.

Mark Moser

Mark Moser is a well-known name in St. Louis Soccer circles. Born and raised in St. Louis he attended Lewis & Clark Community College leading them to two 3rd Place finishes in NJCAA National tournaments. Then attending Sangamon State University and leading them to an NAIA National Championship in 1995. After his college days, he began his 14-year professional career playing indoor soccer for Dayton Dynamo, Memphis Storm, Indiana Kick, St. Louis Storm, St. Louis Ambush, and St. Louis Steamers.

In 1995 Mark led St. Louis Ambush to St. Louis’s first and only professional championship. He finished as St. Louis All-time leading Goalscorer amassing 622 goals and 201 assists in 404 games. He was a 5-time All-Star and represented the United States in the 1996 Futsal World Championships in Spain and is a 2023 Soccer Hall of Fame inductee.

Mark has been with KTRS Radio for 26 years and is currently the Local Sales Manager at KTRS, as well as co-host of St. Louis Soccer Weekly.

Matt Baker

Matt is the Host of Flyover Footy podcast. Along with CITY SC Spanish Play by Play man Santiago Beltran and Phill Grooms, Matt brings the latest and up to date coverage on St. Louis CITY SC. Flyover Footy covers all aspects of St. Louis Soccer from local academies to in-depth CITY coverage. You can hear Matt and his Co-Hosts on much of 550’s Soccer coverage. Matt also co-hosts Soccer In The Lou with Brendan Wiese on Tuesdays during The Big Sports Show. You can hear Flyover Footy 1 hour prior to every CITY match.