Grant Reed, who fought brain cancer and loved Ohio State, died Sunday morning, according to a public Facebook post from his father Troy Reed. Diagnosed with brain cancer at the age of 11 in May 2012, Grant gained national attention when he told his father he had named a tennis ball-sized tumor next to his brain stem “Michigan” after medical staff at Nationwide Children’s encouraged him to name his enemy. “Because Ohio State always beats Michigan,” Grant had told his father. Reed said Sunday on Facebook that Grant died at 6:38 a.m., and that “he won his final victory over M*CH*G*N because it can never hurt him again.” Grant was 18 years old. “I am blessed in the sense that this child put out more life than I taught him. He is truly my hero,” Reed told the Dispatch. “He taught me how to persevere with a smile, but life hands you a bad deal. He definitely…
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