As if this week’s off-the-field distractions weren’t enough for Oklahoma State, we learn this afternoon that starting MLB Orie Lemon, a senior, will miss the season with a torn ACL. Lemon was the team’s third-leading tackler in 2008, but it sounds as if he brought everything from pass breakups to blocked field goals to the table.

Georgia fans know too well how much of a kick in the stomach this can be to a player and his teammates, so we wish him all the best and the strength to make a complete recovery.