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Buy me a coffee My sports media course If you are not obsessed with Tushar Deshpande, then you are just not paying attention. He is having one of the craziest years in the IPL ever. He is right-arm chaos.  No bowler has ever taken more than 15 wickets while going at over ten runs an over. It’s almost not possible to take this many wickets and still go for runs, at a certain point, batters slow down against you just because you take so many wickets.

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I get it. Having too many choices can be overwhelming. I’m embarrassed to admit how many hours of precious existence I have wasted staring at the hundreds of breakfast cereal options at the supermarket. Which ones offer a buy-one-get-one-at-50%-off coupon? How special is Special K? Is it worth 7.99 and an entire afternoon in a carb coma to get the Cinnamon Toast Crunch? Just buy the granola like it says on your shopping list, Steve.

Welcome to Sports Stories, a newsletter that explores sports and history at the intersection of everything. If you’re not already a subscriber, you can sign up here. Sputnik Monroe is a goddamned time machine. His life will take you back to the old, weird America, to a time when the country was both a bigger and a smaller place. It’s an impossible story, which means that at least some of it must be true.

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Someone wrote me a stupid message. Can’t remember exactly what it was, the usual pompous pearl-clutching from the new religious police, along with a demand I ‘explain’ how I wanted to ‘punish’ someone or other, so I sarcastically replied. I get reported all the time by trans rights activists but I thought Elon’s sweep had removed the bad actors within the company. Apparently there’s a few still about because my two appeals have been denied.

For the last month or so, we’ve been looking at simple Old Fashioned-style cocktails made with sweet liqueurs at a 4:1 (spirit:liqueur) ratio. Those drinks include the Rusty Nail, the Cooper Union, and several variations on the Monte Carlo.  These drinks comprise a lesser-known subcategory of cocktails that sits somewhere between the Manhattan and the Old Fashioned — the Liqueur-Sweetened Old Fashioned, or LSOF. Because they require no homemade ingredients or difficult techniques, LSOFs are quite easy to make once you’ve gathered the requisite bottles, making them excellent make-at-home cocktails.

This story has been an extremely difficult one to write.  Because my heart is breaking as I do it. I returned from Israel a couple of weeks ago, and a pair of terrible personal events has placed me in a very dark mood, is illuminating how serious is the situation we face. First, a tragic event occurred that impacted me personally and took me back to the grievous and tempestuous days after I had lost my wife.

UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE THAT EITHER/OR NO LONGER TAKES RESERVATIONS AS THEY ONCE DID. ALSO: FIND THE CURRENT MENU HERE. A first look at Either/Or: 6222 Grand Ave, Des Moines; 515-214-1831. This morning, I met a friend for a lovely walk at Maffitt Reservoir, and on my drive home, I noticed a few empty parking spaces at the new Either/Or restaurant—the highly … ncG1vNJzZmivmaO2rrvRmqWvoZyhsm%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2isp6R6tbTIp56sZamkwm6%2Fx6ispZxdoLuww4yamaitpA%3D%3D