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Sports Spectrum Podcast

Sam Ponder, ESPN NFL Host (Part 2)

Sports Spectrum Podcast

Sports Spectrum

Sports

5661 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Episode 162

Samantha Ponder is the host of Sunday NFL Countdown on ESPN during the football season. She began her career at ESPN with their Longhorn Network in 2011. Prior to her current role on Sunday Countdown, she had been a staple as a reporter on ESPN's College Gameday and college football broadcasts.

In 2012, she married former NFL QB Christian Ponder is since then, has given birth to three children, two girls and a boy.

In part 2 of a two-part conversation, Sam shares the amazingly crazy story of how she met her husband Christian, whether she likes social media, what the Lord is teaching her and the Bible verse that has stayed with her through the years. 

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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.

0:19.9

This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast, part two of our

0:23.3

conversation with ESPN NFL host Samantha Ponder is brought to you by Compassion International.

0:29.7

We've talked about compassion. They do such a great job releasing children from poverty.

0:34.6

And we're so thankful to have them as a partner and a sponsor here on the

0:38.7

Sports Spectrum podcast. And with all of us at Sports Spectrum, just grateful for the great work

0:43.3

being done by compassion. This is your chance to release a child from poverty. You can make a difference.

0:48.7

You can choose a child to sponsor. You can go and visit compassion.com slash sports spectrum. And when you do that,

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you'll see a list of children. Literally, they each have their own sort of website that you can

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click through and learn more about where they're from, what their age is, their sort of background,

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that type of thing. And then you pray about it and pick a child and sponsor them it's that simple we've done

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that my wife my daughter myself we sponsor a 13 year old boy from Haiti and it's the best

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$38 we spend every single month I know I say this on every podcast but it's really true so we want

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to invite you we want to challenge you make room around your dinner table to help a child who needs you.

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And you can do that.

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You can change the trajectory of a child's life by sponsoring them through compassion.

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Go to compassion.com slash sports spectrum, more powerful than poverty.

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You can make the difference.

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Sponsor a child today.

1:44.0

Today's guest on the podcast, part two of our conversation with Samantha Ponder from ESPN.

1:49.5

She hosts Sunday NFL countdown 10 a.m. Eastern every Sunday during the NFL season on ESPN.

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