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Reporter>> We're back to Niagara University, first intermission its 1:0 with the Purple
Eagles on top of the Rochester Institute of Technology. Around college hockey it takes
a lot of people to make things go on a daily basis. Not just on game day, but practices
and setting up meals, and making sure sticks are just right. There's a lot of little details
that need to be taken care of. And there is a detail guy at work for RIT. He's their student
manager: Joe Vicario. But Joe has some challenges. He has Goldenhar Syndrome. Which is an incomplete
development of some body parts. Absence of some organs. Here he is at work before today's
game. So you can see that he has to fight through these issues - and then he was diagnosed
with testicular cancer. He has had 31 surgeries in his 21 years. But you know what? He does
his work and he does it with a smile. According to one of the players, Ben Lynch for RIT:
He's a great guy. We all love him. He's part of the team. He comes in, always works hard.
Always with a smile on his face. He's an inspiration to us. Guys go through small injuries and
then he come walking around and it is just an inspiration - makes those small injuries
for the players seem insignificant. But they call him "Part-Time-Joe". Sometimes he is
doing a lot of different things. But he has so much attention lately, that they are starting
to call him "Big-Time-Joe"! So there was your moment in the spotlight on CBSSports Network
- Big Time Joe! Great job!