Book tells why Colts passed on Ryan Leaf

Three-and-out? No kidding.

Cardinals coach Bruce Arians, in his new book, “The Quarterback Whisperer,” revealed that Washington State QB Ryan Leaf made it easy for the Colts to choose Peyton Manning with the No. 1 pick in the 1998 draft after Leaf:

A. Showed up at the NFL combine overweight.

B. Blew off a private meeting with Colts coaches.

C. Got scathing reviews from Pullman, Wash., residents when Arians came to town and started asking about him.

Watch your elbows

The Class A Potomac Nationals gave away 1,250 Tommy John surgery bobbleheads — a headless halftorso with a cutaway elbow.

Replacement rubber bands not included.

Err Jordans?

Ballyhooed Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball shot just 13 percent — 2 for 15 — in his summer league debut.

“It’s gotta be the shoes,” chuckled Mars Blackmon.

Money player

Virginia cornerback Chuck Davis won $100,000 playing the state’s “Cash 5” lottery.

“Lightweight,” sniffed an SEC booster.

Talking the talk

Washington State football coach Mike Leach, to ESPN.com, on the athleticism of 6-8, 370-pound guard Cody O’Connell: “He’s weirdly flexible.”

Janice Hough of LeftCoastSportsBabe.com, on all that’s left to complete the Ball family circus: “Date a Kardashian.”

Pistol Offense Dept.

Bills defensive lineman Adolphus Washington was arrested recently on a charge of improperly carrying a concealed firearm outside the Splash Park water park in Sharonville, Ohio.

Unfortunately for Washington, it wasn’t a squirt gun.

Lawsuit of the week

A woman who tore her ACL while riding a mechanical bull is suing a New York bar because she was allowed to ride while visibly intoxicated.

Gold-medal alibi

U.S. 400-meter runner Gil Roberts, who flunked a drug test, got it overturned after he successfully argued that the masking agent probenecid got in his system as a result of kissing his girlfriend and ingesting some of her sinus-infection medicine.

“Now why didn’t I think of that?” groaned Josh Gordon, slapping his forehead.

Here come da Judge

Aaron Judge hit a Yankees rookie-record 30 home runs this season in 301 at-bats. Compare that to the 18 career homers he hit in three seasons at Fresno State in 594 at-bats.

Judge won the 2017 AllStar Home Run Derby with 47 homers that traveled a combined 3.9 miles. He won the 2012 College Home Run Derby with 16.

More headlines

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In the Los Angeles Times: “NFL Films tackles challenge of making the 2016 Rams watchable.”