Kobe Bryant stories and a Summer 2024 magazine preview with Sports Spectrum managing editor Jon Ackerman
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Today on the podcast, Jon Ackerman, Sports Spectrum's Managing Editor joins the show to share a preview of the Summer 2024 Sports Spectrum magazine. Jon also shares about covering the 2008 Summer Olympics and his interaction with the late, great Kobe Bryant.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys? |
| 0:14.8 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum today. |
| 0:16.8 | And it's always a pleasure to welcome my friend, |
| 0:19.5 | the managing editor of Sports Spectrum, John Ackerman, to the show. What's up, John? How are you? I'm doing great. Doing great. How are you? I'm good, man. It's good to talk to you. We do this every quarter. And if I'm having you on the show, and you've done a couple podcasts actually recently, which has been good. But if I'm having you on the show, and it means that we have a brand new Sports Spectrum magazine that is out. |
| 0:41.8 | I'm holding in my hand a copy of the Summer 2024 Olympic edition of Sports Spectrum magazine featuring Sidney McLaughlin-Lavroni on the cover. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm going to read the title of the cover. |
| 0:55.2 | The track and field icon seeks more of God, not more gold. And I just thought we'd spend a few minutes here, John, |
| 1:01.1 | talking about this magazine, because if you're excited about Paris 2024, the Olympics start, |
| 1:07.4 | Summer Olympics in late July, and you want to read up about some of the athletes |
| 1:11.5 | that you're going to watch, do their thing on the biggest stage. This is the magazine to get. |
| 1:16.3 | So tell us about your thoughts real quick on some of the athletes that you featured, particularly |
| 1:20.5 | Sydney and McLaughlin-Varoney being on the cover of the magazine. |
| 1:24.9 | This was a, it was a fun issue to put together. I have some history covering Olympics |
| 1:30.5 | and it's always fun. Obviously the Olympics aren't an annual event, so it's always fun to |
| 1:35.9 | kind of see who the new athletes at the upcoming Olympics will be. And then in our world, |
| 1:42.8 | especially finding who the Christ following athletes are going to be. |
| 1:47.1 | And I feel like we got some really good ones. This is a really good issue, obviously, |
| 1:51.8 | starting with Sidney McLaughlin-Livronie. I mean, she was one of the biggest stars that come out of |
| 1:58.5 | the Tokyo Olympics and nothing has changed going into |
| 2:01.8 | Paris. I mean, she's expected to win gold in her event, which is 400 meter hurdles. There's a |
| 2:09.7 | chance she could still run the 400, the flat 400, which is the same thing just without hurdles. |
| 2:16.0 | She's competed in both of those events the last few years, and she is a contender |
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