Tony Trent, Tyler Trent's Dad - "The Upset"
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Episode 300
Tony Trent is our guest on the podcast today. He's the Dad to Purdue super-fanTyler Trent. And today on the show, we talk to Tony about Tyler's courageous battle with cancer, Tyler's new book "The Upset," and how the strong faith that the entire Trent family has in Jesus Christ has helped them during this difficult season of life and the loss of their beloved son Tyler back in January of 2019.
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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. |
| 0:20.3 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with Tony Trent is brought to you by Compassion International. |
| 0:26.7 | We've talked about compassion quite a bit here on the podcast, and we're so grateful to have them as sponsors and partners here with us at Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:34.6 | It's $38 a month, and you have the chance to release a child from poverty. |
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| 0:46.2 | Compassion has found that to be through the local church. They partner with more than 7,000 |
| 0:50.8 | local churches in 25 countries to deliver God's love and care to children in need, |
| 0:56.6 | one child at a time. |
| 0:58.1 | Today, more than 2 million children are breaking the cycle of poverty for good because |
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| 1:14.3 | Compassion.com slash sports spectrum. Consider releasing a child from poverty and sponsoring them today. |
| 1:22.9 | Today in the podcast, we welcome Tony Trent to the show. Tony is the dad to Tyler Trent. |
| 1:29.0 | And if you remember our podcast back in November of 2018 around Thanksgiving, |
| 1:35.3 | Tyler Trent was a guest here. |
| 1:37.2 | And in that interview that we did, about 15 minutes or so, Tyler and I spoke, |
| 1:42.8 | Tyler was just a month and a half or so away from losing his |
| 1:46.9 | life. Tyler courageously battled cancer for many years and died on January 1st, 2019. And his dad, Tony, |
| 1:58.8 | who I've been able to text and have conversations with since we had Tyler on the podcast, informed me that Tyler wanted to write a book and had a book that he was putting together. |
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