As the Cincinnati Bearcats' football program has surged on to the national scene this year, the team has been quietly motivated by its bond with a young cancer patient they adopted at the beginning of the year.
Players and coaches alike will point 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.
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