Daily Bullets (August 19)

Coaching updates

OSU’s coaches will be paid over $6 million this year. (Tulsa World)

Good stuff here on Robby Discher, OSU’s special teams sort-of-coach. (NewsOK)

Offensive line improvement

OSU’s offensive line should be so much better than last year. (NewsOK)

Paul Lewis has had a long, strange road to the position he’s in. But the offensive line seems pretty set. (Go Pokes)

Football news

Jordan Sterns says OSU can make it to the national championship. (PFB)

Dez Bryant takes a punch to the face in training camp. (PFB)

I’ve finally fallen in love with J.W. Walsh. (PFB)

Mike Gundy talks about the only true freshman we’re sure will play. (PFB)

The 16th-most important person to the 2015 season. (PFB)

Why OSU will win the Big 12. (CRFF)

Take the 2015 OSU survey from OKC Dave. Over 1,000 people took it on Tuesday. (PFB)

The reality is, Oklahoma State was one play away from being a forgettable 5-7. Had they not pulled off that Bedlam surprise, they would’ve looked a lot more like that TCU team from 2013 that only managed to defeat the Big 12’s worst teams. (ESPN)

Around the country

Joe Mixon seems grateful for a second chance. (NewsOK)

Big game Bawb is the worst coach in the Big 12 in close games. (CBS)

David Ubben is being laid off by Fox Sports which is the worst. Somebody needs to hire him ASAP.

Some personal news

Read: http://t.co/dbshBGOkO2

— David Ubben (@davidubben) August 18, 2015

Recruiting news

OSU gets a big commitment from Chris Carson’s former teammate. (PFB)

Other sports

Terry Francona will go with John Farrell, who has lymphoma, to his first cancer treatment. (ESPN)

OSU is getting a new assistant basketball coach. (Tulsa World)

The top 100 plays of the 2014-15 NBA season. (Daily Thunder)

I laughed so, so hard.

The blocking call…yes https://t.co/BcEqz5QMmF

— Matt Amilian (@mattamilian) August 18, 2015

More stuff I’m reading

The United States of emoji. via Kevin DeShazo. (Swiftkey)

Where clicks reign, audience is king. (NYT)

How giving away 1,000 books made me love reading again. (Becoming Minimalist)