Bullets: Here’s the man who saved OSU’s APR bacon

Football

Great work by Kyle Fredrickson here. He found the guy who saved OSU’s two hours of practice a week. (NewsOK)

My gosh, A&M is crushing. (Yahoo)

Photos of players reporting to camp, if you’re into that. (Flickr)

Mike Yurcich: “This is a great place to live. I love it here, my wife loves it here. The people in the community are very supportive. They love Cowboy football. That’s a big part of it, man. It’s awesome to see and awesome to be a part of.” (Tulsa World)

OSU is 30th (or unranked) in the preseason coaches poll. TCU is No. 31. (USA Today)

Good news: Three of the final top five last season started the year unranked. (Yahoo)

More on why polls don’t matter including 10 of the worst preseason rankings ever. (CBS Sports)

Do you understand the college football playoff? (PFB)

Good stat find here. OSU is 0-10 against the No. 1 team in the country all-time. (Tulsa World)

New Air Force unis. The more teams come out with these ridiculous color schemes, the better OSU’s unis start to look (and they were already pretty great). (Yahoo)

Ranking the unis: No. 28. (PFB)

Oregon has scratch-and-sniff tickets this season! (Yahoo)

You can watch the media day festivities this Saturday online. (okstate)

Michael Hunnicut gets the giggles. Kickers, man. (NewsOK)

Hoops

There isn’t tape but I watched the Dez/Nolan slam dunk contest and it was the greatest. It was in GIA and it ended in a tie and that’s the night Nolan and I became friends. Memories! (SB Nation)

Random stuff

He might be like Tim Duncan and become Old Man Riverwalk North. (NewsOK)

I don’t follow baseball that closely but Justin Verlander, David Price, and Max Scherzer seems like a decent three-man rotation come October… (Deadspin)

More on the sexual violence course OSU students are forced to take. Not to make light of sexual violence but a bit of irony that students are forced to take a sexual violence course… (Campus Reform)

Big Cat! (CBS Sports)

This is so cool.

I laughed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhL2kB1heEk

I’m jealous that this is going to be good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRE8_pR3MJ8

Jim Caviezel ain’t Coach Taylor but this looks good.