Sports and real life sometimes intersect in some incredibly touching ways.  Here, Charlie Weis, head coach of Notre Dame football, grants a dying 10 year old's wish to call a play – the day after the young boy tragically dies.

As written in Sports Illustrated:

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Charlie Weis doesn't usually let anyone else call plays on offense. He made an exception for 10-year-old Montana Mazurkiewicz.

The Notre Dame coach met last week with Montana, who had been told by doctors weeks earlier that there was nothing more they could do to stop the spread of his inoperable brain tumor.

"He was a big Notre Dame fan in general, but football especially," said his mother, Cathy Mazurkiewicz.

Weis showed up at the Mazurkiewicz home in Mishawaka, just east of South Bend, and talked with Montana about his tumor and about Weis' 10-year-old daughter, Hannah, who has global development delay, a rare disorder similar to autism.

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