This is Sports Spectrum, the intersection of sports and faith, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation.

Here's your host, Jason Romano.

Hey, everyone, welcome back to the Sports Spectrum podcast. I am Jason Romano. We got a little bonus

episode for you today as we've done for the last couple of times that our Sports Spectrum

magazine has been released. We want to tell you guys about what's in this new edition

of Sports Spectrum's magazine. And with it being the fall issue, of course,

the magazine is focused on football. And so it's always great to welcome back my friend, my colleague,

the managing editor of Sports Spectrum and Sports Spectrum magazine, John Ackerman, to discuss what I

think is one of our best issues we've done so far. And we'll talk about that in a second,

why that is. But John, what's going on, buddy? Welcome back to Sports Spectrums podcast. How are you? Thanks, man. Doing well. Thanks for having me. Always good to chat. Yeah. We're on the back end of the magazine production now. So it's like you can breathe a little bit because I know that you work some long hours, you and our buddy there, Aaron Sauer, who's our graphics guy and puts together the magazine, the look of the magazine. You guys work a lot of hours putting this thing together. And now we're on the back end and actually having a copy in my hand. We can actually feel it, touch it, read it, look at it, and you can see what all that work turned into.

And don't you think this is one of the best magazines we've done? I know we're biased on this,

but there's a bunch of reasons why, but this is really an awesome magazine. Davos Sweeney from

Clemson, by the way, is on the cover. Yeah. Yeah, definitely one of our best issues yet.

Yeah, it feels a lot of work went into this one, but it's, it's always fun to actually get the printed product, to hold the printed

product and read through it. This one, yeah, we got some, we got some really good access to a few athletes, which is always a lot more fun, always makes for better stories.

Took our own photos this time around with the staff photographer, Leah.

So it turned out really, really well.

I'm really excited about this issue.

Yeah, shout out to our friend Leah Stouffer.

She is our social

media director, but also kind of our residential photographer for our sports spectrum team as well.

And this was one where, let me kind of go a little backwards here for our audience that's listening.

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