The Courageous Story of Matt Loede

Sports Spectrum Podcast

Sports Spectrum

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4.9 • 685 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Matt Loede is a Cleveland based reporter who has covered sports in Northeast Ohio since 1994. He has covered Major League Baseball, NBA, NFL as well as high school and college events. He's been a part of the Cleveland Indians coverage since the opening of Jacobs/Progressive Field in 1994 and covered LeBron James' two tenures in Cleveland with the Cavaliers.

In 2020, Matt was named the Associated Press Radio Sports Stringer Lifetime Service Award.

But today's podcast isn't about sports, its about a different type of battle. At 45 years old, Matt is currently battling Stage 4 Lymphoma, a blood cancer that he was diagnosed with in April of 2019.

Matt has had over 20 chemo treatments and shares on today's podcast how his faith has helped keep him on solid ground during his fight against cancer.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast where we bring Jesus into the conversation.
0:18.1	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:20.4	What's up, guys? Welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason Romano. What's up, guys?
0:21.4	Welcome to Sports Spectrum.
0:22.7	I am Jason Romano.
0:24.2	So glad you're tuning into our show today.
0:26.4	A couple of places I want to tell you to check out before we get to our interview with
0:30.3	Matt Lodi today.
0:31.5	First of all, our website, Sportspectrum.com.
0:34.2	It's a great place to go for all of our content.
0:37.1	You get daily devotionals and article stories on the intersection of sports and faith written pretty much every day during the week. And then you also get every podcast there as well. And it goes back to 2017. There's a lot of interviews that we've done over the last three and a half years, almost four years now. You can find them all at sportspectrum.com. And then if you want to reach us directly, you can email
0:59.8	me, Jason at sportspectrum.com is my email. It comes right to me, Jason at sportspectrum.com. Maybe you have a
1:06.4	guest idea, a show topic, someone we should be interviewing, or just some nice thoughts that you want to
1:12.2	say about our conversation with Matt Lodi, which is a pretty inspirational one.
1:16.4	It's coming up in just a second.
1:17.9	You can email me directly, Jason at Sportspectrum.com.
1:22.8	And we are presented today by IJM.
1:25.2	They are the International Justice Mission, the world's largest international
1:28.6	anti-slavery organization working to fight modern day slavery, human trafficking, and violence against
1:36.0	the poor. They are inspired by God's call to love all people and to seek justice on behalf of
1:42.8	the poor and the oppressed.
1:45.1	You can learn more by checking out the website, IJM.org slash TF, IJM.org slash TF, and learn how you can become a freedom partner today.
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