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The Loneliest Man in Sports

By Lindsay Berra (Video by Sarah A. Friedman)
ESPN The Magazine

Thursday, January 15, 2009

On a recent December morning, six floors above the snow-piled corner of Chemin Queen Mary and Avenue Decelles, Olivier Bauer is discussing his upcoming graduate course, La Religion du Canadien de Montréal (The Religion of the Montreal Canadiens). It seems that the University of Montreal theology professor has rankled both the marketing department of Les Glorieux—French Canadians call their NHL club the Glorious Ones—and Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte of Montreal. The Habs suits thin ...

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