Mike Bomgardner - Covid-19 and Cancer
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Episode 495
Mike Bomgardner is a former Duke football player. A four-sport letterman in high school, Bomgardner's Haddon Heights, N.J., team won two state championships and he received multiple scholarship offers from schools such as Penn State, Notre Dame and Syracuse. During his time at Duke, Bomgardner served as a co-captain in 1974 and was voted "Most Inspirational Teammate" that same season.
Today, Bomgardner is in a different kind of battle away from the football field, as he was diagnosed with colon cancer in April 2016. He went through multiple rounds of cancer, but in January 2019 he discovered his cancer had returned and was given a terminal diagnosis.
On March 22, 2020, Bomgardner's trials continued, as he was diagnosed with COVID-19 and admitted to the hospital for multiple days.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Bomgardner about his football journey, but more so focus on how the Lord has worked through him during his battle with cancer, contracting coronavirus, sharing his story, and why he continues to trust in Jesus during all of this.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:20.6 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason Romano. Today's show is sponsored by IJM, the |
| 0:26.3 | International Justice Mission. Check them out at IJM.org slash TF to become a freedom partner, |
| 0:32.9 | helping to protect more than 150 million people from violence worldwide. That is IJM. Visit their website, |
| 0:40.5 | IJM.org slash TF. We're also presented today by Compassion International, the most trusted |
| 0:47.5 | child development ministry in the world. They have a great program going on right now with |
| 0:53.2 | compassion. It's called Team Up, |
| 0:55.4 | and I'm going to tell you a little bit more about it halfway through this program. But right now, |
| 1:00.1 | I want you to check out the website, Compassion.com slash team up as we do team up with professional |
| 1:06.9 | athletes and compassion for children in poverty. |
| 1:14.3 | Compassion.com slash team up. |
| 1:18.7 | Today on the show, we welcome Mike Baumgartner. |
| 1:21.1 | He is a former Duke football player. |
| 1:25.0 | He was a co-captain there with Duke back in the 1970s. |
| 1:30.6 | But this conversation is a lot less about sports. |
| 1:34.3 | Let's just put it this way and a lot more about his powerful story and his journey, |
| 1:41.0 | not only to faith later in life, but over the last four years, he's been going through a ton. |
| 1:47.9 | He was diagnosed with colon cancer in April of 2016, had surgery, 12 rounds of chemo, |
| 1:53.8 | and then in January of 2019, he was once again diagnosed with the cancer. It had returned and metastasized in his lymph nodes. He's been doing chemotherapy virtually every other week now |
| 2:00.3 | for more than a year. |
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