Daily Bullets (Apr. 19): Spring Game Details Released, Cowboys Love Texas Being Overrated

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Scores

Men’s Tennis: Pokes 4, Charlotte 1

OSU Bullets

• Details around this weekend’s spring football game in Stillwater – Gundy announced it’ll be more of a practice (PFB)

• Marcus Smart won the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year award yesterday (PFB)

• Seeing Texas rated No. 6 according to ESPN’s FPI is a wonderful thing for Oklahoma State (and Oklahoma), here’s why:

The Sooners and Cowboys are a combined 10-3 against the Longhorns since 2016, putting the two Bedlam fan bases in best position to realize a burnt orange overrating when they see it.

[TulsaWorld]

• OSU offering Zane Flores early paid off (PFB)

• Three takeaways from the Cowboys’ weekend series’ win over the West Virginia Mountaineers (O’Colly)

• The Cowboys are +1,800 to win the national title in baseball

• Mike Gundy and his coordinators are throwing out the first pitches at this weekend’s home series against TCU:

• Pretty solid Twitter thread here taking a look at the new QB who committed to the Pokes on Easter:

Non-OSU Bullets

• Comparing motivation by affiliation to by success (and High Noon to Rio Bravo)
• The poison pill blocking Elon Musk from buying Twitter
• Loved this excerpt from Pilgrim’s Progress that Charles Spurgeon highlights (faith-based)