Daily Bullets: OSU is Portugal

Football

Why Bob Connelly bought a house with a swimming pool. (NewsOK)

This is amazing, Big 12 teams as World Cup teams. Texas as England is amazing. (ESPN)

Top breakout players in the Big 12 in 2014. (NFL)

OU is losing some of the consistency they’ve experienced under Stoops. (NewsOK)

Dominic Ramacher, gone. We’re going to have PFB readers trying out for linebacker this fall. (NBC)

Did you know JW is a good leader? (NewsOK)

FSU by 17 over OSU is the early line. Fair? Not fair? (CRFF)

Josh Cooper signs with Minnesota. (NewsOK)

Late Friday recruiting update you might have missed. (PFB)

“I actually saw them playing on TV one day, and I didn’t even know they existed. They just looked like a humble team. I saw instantly that they would be a team that would accept me without being cocky and what-not. It seemed like a place where I would fit in. I am majoring in Agriculture-Business, so that was perfect to go along with it.” (okstate)

VY’s NFL career is over. That makes me feel old. (Fox SW)

Hoops

Mah-kis Smaht. Also, here’s example No. 293 that Smart will say whatever you want to hear…he calls Rajon Rondo “one of the greatest point guards to ever play this game.” (Boston Herald)

Cobbins Chamberlain could be back by the middle of July. (NBC)

Anthony Hickey enrolls at OSU. (Tulsa World)

Jeff Newberry is not excited that I’m not excited about it. (Twitter)

Good draft profile here of Smart. I get the Eric Bledsoe comp less than I get the Harden one. Bledsoe is elite athletically, Smart is just big and strong. (B/R)

Another late Friday recruiting update you might have missed. (PFB)

Other

Here’a Aaron Schnautz’s first annual baseball awards post. Vote! (PFB)

Here are the OSU baseball players headed to the Cape Cod League. (CRFF)

Btw, if you want some fun summer reading this book on the Cape is tremendous. (Amazon)

These are always fun — Royce Young looks back at his 35 predictions for the Thunder to start the season. (Daily Thunder)

Here’s how (and why) the Rickie Fowler tribute to Payne Stewart came about. (ESPN)

Speaking of Fowler, he was awesome all weekend but him almost killing this kid cracked me up. Watch the dad! (CBS Sports)

This piece on a minor leaguer who has hit 400 HRs is pretty cool. (Sports on Earth)

Hunter Mahan hit the wrong ball at the US Open. It cost him making the cut. (CBS Sports)

Soccer has won me over. (CRFF)

Why formal education is a waste of time for writers. (Brain Pickings)

Colleges are full of it. Pretty interesting piece here. (Salon)

Very cool.

Here’s some amazing OSU-FSU footage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmF6GKvrOhc