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These aren’t the best of times for Montreal’s three major pro sports teams.

Alouettes players are fighting with each other during practice as the club looks certain to miss the playoffs for the second straight year, the Canadiens’ summer soap opera continues with reports by Michel Villeneuve that Michel Therrien called Max Pacioretty the worst captain in club history during a golf tournament, and the Impact hasn’t won back-to-back games since April and has only one win in its last six games (1-3-2).

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But there’s a reason why newspaper sports sections are sometimes called the toy department. There are a lot more important things in life and sports provides us all with a diversion from a lot of bad things.

Like kids with cancer — and it doesn’t get much worse than that.

So I take my hat off — and give my bald head a big nod — to Joey Saputo for what he did on Wednesday. The Impact’s 51-year-old owner decided to take part in the Leucan Shaved Head Challenge, going under the razor himself during the charity event at Saputo Stadium. Young players from the Impact Academy also took part with the event that raised $33,031 to help in the fight against children’s cancer. This marked the fifth year the Impact has held the event.