Resurgent Bearcats inspired by bond with young cancer patient

As the Cincinnati Bearcats football program has surged on to the national scene this year, the team has been quietly motivated by the bond with a young cancer patient they adopted at the beginning of the year. Players and coaches alike will point you to 12-year-old Mitch Stone as the special ingredient to the team’s success this year.  Stone is a cancer patient and has become the first child to be “adopted” by a Football Bowl Subdivision team through Friends of Jaclyn which matches pediatric brain tumor patients with sports teams. Read full article here.