“Beat Michigan” is a mission statement and a rallying cry for Ohio State and its athletics program, but never before have the words held the implications they’ve had for a young man named Grant Reed. While cliche, saying Grant is “Ohio State’s biggest fan” is the only way to describe him. His parents were in the marching band at Ohio State, he grew up in a Buckeye household and his life’s goal is to beat “Michigan”—the cancerous brain tumor he has been battling for the past two years. According to Fox Sports, Grant was diagnosed with the tumor in 2011 and decided soon after to nickname his biggest adversary after Ohio State’s greatest rival, the University of Michigan. After much pain, struggle and chemotherapy, the doctors’ prognosis is good—Reed is beating Michigan. The disease is in regression, according to Grant’s parents, Troy and Denise Reed, who
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