Welcome into the Sports Spectrum podcast, where we bring Jesus into the Sports

Sports Conversation.

Here's your host for today, Jason Romano.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome to Sports Spectrum.

I am Jason Romano. Our website is Sportspectrum.com. You can find all of our content there. We have articles and devotionals and podcasts, updated content, updated stories every single day, Monday through Friday at Sportspectrum.com. And our managing editor of that Sports Spectrum website, he's also the managing editor of our magazine. Our Sports Spectrum.com. And our managing editor of that Sports Spectrum website, he's also the managing

editor of our magazine, our Sports Spectrum Quarterly Magazine, and we got the spring

edition. John Ackerman is here today to kind of go over. And every time we do this conversation,

John, I get excited because it means another magazine is coming out for everybody to to read first of all how are you buddy good to see you I'm doing great

good to see you absolutely I'm excited about this specific magazine yeah and

people have already heard some of the things that are featured in this magazine in the sense that last,

well, a couple weeks ago, we had a full week of interviews regarding the Oklahoma softball team

that stemmed from a trip that you and I took with our friend Liam Montgomery down to

Norman, Oklahoma. So if you've been listening to this podcast, you've heard those interviews.

And we saw them resonating so much on social media.

But now the magazine's coming.

And they are on the cover of the magazine for members of the Oklahoma softball team.

And I really want to kind of dive into the idea of why we chose to have Oklahoma

on the cover and to do this story. So I'll start with asking you that. I'm excited about the

magazine. But when we started having this idea to even feature Oklahoma, I feel like it was in

the late summer, wasn't it?

Yeah, it came about right after they won their second national championship. And I mean,

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