TAMPA — There was Tony Colton, Monday night’s 16-year-old pitchman. He sat in front of a camera in the Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel & Marina, soft smile, confident delivery, flowing brown hair.
Tony told his story to Fox Sports. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2011 and has endured too many surgeries to keep track of. He lost a kidney; the surgical scars, the shooting pain in his abdomen, all remind him of his disease.
Still, during the interview, he kept that smile going and promoted his cause: to raise research money for understudied cancers like his own, undifferentiated sarcoma, a rare childhood affliction that starts in the body’s soft tissue.