Whether you're a nine or 90-year old desi with an insatiable appetite for sleaze and slime, you need not go further than a section of our shrill sports media for your daily gupshup 'fix'.

Bored with the inconsequential, nudge-nudge-wink-wink minutiae of an ill-advised Indo-Pak marriage, Indian sports lovers, characteristically breathless in daily pursuit of salacious betting, match-fixing and sexual escapades, have now moved way past Tiger Woods, David Beckham and Franck Ribery.

Thankfully, the frenetic daily media coverage of cloak-and-dagger Indian Premier League (IPL) shenanigans, which took precedence over life and death considerations of security, roti, kapda and makaan has, at long last, been slashed to realistic proportions.

Fortunately, the unending mouth-watering cocktail of dark and devious financial IPL deeds, the avaricious wheeling-dealing, the spurious 'I-ain't-done-nothing' outrage -- all spiced, shaken, stirred and topped up with the inevitable femme fatale -- has been watered down.

Instead, prime time and space in the media have been usurped by the mouthwatering falooda of the jhagda between union minister of sport MS Gill and his friend-turned bete noir Suresh Kalmadi, the high-profile head honcho of the omnipotent Indian Olympic Association (IOA).

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