Today's episode with Brian Cuck here on Sports Spectrum is presented by Compassion International and the fill the stadium initiative.

The pandemic now more than a year old, 70,000 kids left without a sponsorship because of the pandemic.

And we are standing in the gap with compassion and our pro athlete friends to help release these kids and their family from poverty.

And we're almost there.

More than 50,000 seats have been filled with compassion over the past year.

And God is doing some incredible things.

But we're not done yet.

And we need your help.

So if you have any opportunity to donate,

we would love to have you participate with Phil the Stadium and

Compassion to help these kids in desperate need of help. Check out fill thestadium.com to learn more

and donate today with compassion at fillvestadium.com. Welcome to Sports Spectrum, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation.

Here's your host, former ESPN producer Jason Romano.

Welcome everyone to the show. I am Jason. This is Sports Spectrum. And man, do we have one powerful story

for you to hear today from Brian Cuck? He's a former pro baseball player and just recently finished

pastoring for 33 years at GT Church in Reading, Pennsylvania. But the story doesn't just end

there with Brian. It goes even

further because back in June of 2015, Brian's wife of 28 years was killed by a drunk driver

in the same accident that Brian was involved in as well. Brian went into a coma, had 19 surgeries,

36 blood transfusions, and lost his left leg.

And this guy is still pressing on after the death of his wife, after the death of his baseball

career. And we'll talk about that story in a second too, but still being able to persevere and

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