Bullets: Josh Furman signs four-year deal with Broncos

Hoops misc.

How about we get rid of ALL timeouts? Also, the best recommendation here is using a timeout near the TV timeout as the TV timeout. (NewsOK)

Berry Tramel has thoughts on all the new rule changes. I’m with him on the shot clock thing. Take it down as low as you can. 20 seconds, 18 seconds, I don’t care. (NewsOK)

Football misc.

Not that any of you care, but SI has Oklahoma State No. 25 in its preseason poll. (Sports Illustrated)

Josh Furman: “I was planning on having a big first year at Oklahoma State and just top it off with a good pro day.” Signed a four-year deal. (NewsOK)

We get fewer football fans yearly than North Carolina and BYU? (NCAA)

What percentage of production does each Big 12 team return in 2015? (ESPN)

Get to know Marcus Arroyo. He’s intense.

Baseball update

OSU and OU are in the same side of the Big 12 Tournament bracket. (NewsOK)

Here are the times and dates. (Big 12 Sports)

Thoroughly enjoyed this from John Klein on Gary Ward and OSU’s dominance in the 1980s and 1990s. (Tulsa World)

OSU still looks to be in line to get a regional. (CRFF)

OSU won two of three against Michigan. (okstate)

This fan caught an insanely long Giancarlo home run. (Deadspin)

Other sports

OSU men finished 6th in the Big 12 Championship. Women finished 7th. (okstate)

Cowboys advanced to the NCAA Championships in golf pretty easily on Saturday. Jordan Niebrugge rolled to the individual title. (okstate)

Also, there was a wild hole-out from a Troy golfer to go to the NCAA Championship. It was awesome. (CBS)

There are some terrific photos of Markel, Zac and others from a recent Coaches vs. Cancer golf outing in Stillwater. (okstate)

Novak Djokovic nearly put his own eye out after beating Roger Federer in the Italian Open. (Big Lead)

King Rory.

More stuff I’m reading

Bill Simmons won’t appear on Grantland or ESPN again. (Big Lead)

Here’s a cool post from one of his employees.

Wanted to say a couple of things about @BillSimmons. pic.twitter.com/PebqEzfPKp

— Bill Barnwell (@billbarnwell) May 17, 2015

Disney recycled scenes. This is pretty cool. (Kleon)

What’s the most beautiful paragraph or sentence you’ve ever read? (Kottke)

How many Steve Jobs movies have there been?

Watched this documentary over the weekend. It was incredible. h/t Ryan Duffie.