‘Legal issues’ not important enough to discuss

TV’S COLLEGE football season kicked off in full Saturday, and once again those poor coaches who recruited “distractions” were distracted by those distractions.

With 45 seconds left in the first quarter of Miami-LSU, ESPN finally got around to a big story. It posted a graphic noting that three LSU players, LSU’s football program partially owned by Nike, are “Suspended Indefinitely” for “Off-Field Issues.” They were shown as LB Tyler Taylor, OL Ed Ingram and WR Drake Davis. Sean McDonough politely explained there are “legal issues,” then left it at that.

Legal issues? Unpaid parking tickets? Overdue library books?

Tyler was arrested for three felonies involving a burglary. In- gram was arrested for aggravated sexual assault on a minor. Davis was arrested for felony assault on an ex-girlfriend. That’s all, nothing important.

➤ Is there a Doc Medich in the house? Diamondbacks-Dodgers, a four-game series between contenders that ended Sunday. The combined totals:

With batters swinging for the fences, even with two strikes, there were just 19 runs, but 36 pitchers in the box scores (some pitched more than once during the series), 50 hits and 80 strikeouts — 30 more Ks than hits!

Wednesday, against four Cleveland pitchers, the Royals had two hits and struck out 16 times. Just nine of 27 outs weren’t strikeouts.