Welcome to Sports Spectrum, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation.

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

What's up, everybody?

Welcome to Sports Spectrum.

I am Jason Romano. Today on the show, we're going to do something a little different. We do have a guest, and I'm excited to bring in John Ackerman today. He's the managing editor of Sports Spectrum. And in case you didn't know, we have a magazine. And I think most of you know, because if you listen to this podcast, you hear me talk about our Sports Spectrum magazine.

The magazine's been the pillar of sports spectrum, really when you think about the birth of this ministry, the birth of this media ministry.

It came 1985. Dr. J. Julius Irving was on the cover of the very first edition of the Sports Spectrum magazine 36 years ago,

and here we are going strong today in 2021. I've said this before and I'll say it again.

Our magazine, I will put it up against any magazine out there, not just sports magazine.

I'm talking about all magazines. And I think the Sports Spectrum magazine is a fantastic

resource for people, and they should

subscribe, especially if you have kids or if you're in ministry and you're leading a team,

get the Sports Spectrum magazine.

And we got a really cool offer for you today just by listening to this podcast.

You're going to get a 15% off code that you can use to subscribe for a full year

of Sports Spectrum's magazine. So we welcome in John Ackerman, the managing editor of Sports

Spectrum. What's up, buddy? How are you? I'm doing great. It's good to have you on. I thought

what would be fun. You and I were talking. Why don't we spend 10, 15 minutes and we'll make this a podcast maybe every quarter as we release a new magazine and let people know about the magazine, what's in it, the latest issue, and, you know, I guess promote it a little bit, right? And let people know what's going to happen if they subscribe and what they're going to get. So I have the latest issue in my hand,

the brand new edition, the spring 2021 edition of Sports Spectrums magazine. It's usually our

baseball preview as we've been doing this now for about three, four years. And on the cover is

James McCann, the New York Mets catcher.

And it says the Mets got their man in McCann, overcoming odd since birth, literally.

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