Daily Bullets – 9.15

This article about paying college athletes is long but it’s just absolutely spectacular. (h/t Arin Mitchell) (The Atlantic)

Wow, the last time OSU shut a team out was 2001. (Fox Sports)

I guess I never realized how close Jeremy Smith was to leaving OSU. (NewsOK)

Does Drew Pearson know who Darrelle Revis is, or no? (Dallas Morning News)

Solid look at bootlegging sporting events online (we’ve all been there) and what the networks should do about it. (SB Nation)

Interesting that their Cowboys get more network love than ours. And I wonder where OU fits into all of this. (NewsOK)

Your #2 Cowgirls play BYU in a conference game non-conference game with their perfect 9-0 record on the line. (okstate.com)

Bill Haisten talks about what a joke $95 is to watch OSU play Tulsa. (Tulsa World)

This alone should be enough to boot Baylor from the Big 12. Although I guess I shouldn’t talk considering OSU sold fewer tickets than KU to the A&M game. (ESPN)

The Cowgirl golf team came back from 21 shots down on Wednesday to win the Dale McNamara Invitational. Sophomore Jayde Panos dropped a school-record 64 in the effort. (okstate.com)

Pretty cool that OSU was on the front of the New York Times on Wednesday (h/t to the Orange Power guys for this).

And from the article Mike Tanier writes, “Oklahoma State, meanwhile, is vying to become the Oregon of the Great Plains by making fiery orange the new yellow.” (New York Times)

Scout Inc. has three OSU guys in its top 32 for next year’s draft. (h/t Gavin Lang) (ESPN)

Haven’t decided if this is cool, dumb, or just pointless. (Rivals)

Anthony Slater talks to Chris Donaldson about the time Nigel Nicholas yanked on his beard. (O’Colly)

Stoops takes a veiled shot at OSU and their new threads. (Sports Illustrated)

Robert Allen takes us deep inside the Pac-12 realignment. Also, what is a “characterture”? (Go Pokes)

Only 3 Big 12 teams have a worse historical football record than OSU. (CRFF)

Brandon Weeden is rising and falling (and passing and handing off and…pretty much everything but running). (ESPN)

The fair starts today. Let the fried beer flow like the salmon of capastrana. (NewsOK)

The Georgia one is awesome…

“Not being able to cover Tony Allen” has to be in the list of top ten reasons I’m bummed about the NBA lockout, doesn’t it?