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Daily Bullets (Christmas Eve 2017)

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Merry Christmas Eve, all. I’m traveling today, and we will be super light over the next two days because stop reading about sports and spend time with your families and friends! We’ll pick it back up on Tuesday with Camping World preview pieces and churn out a fun week of #content to end 2017.

Senior Sendoff

Glenn Spencer recently had the following conversation with Vili Leveni.

“He knows he’s not the old Vili,” Spencer said of the senior defensive end who had been a rock on the coach’s front line throughout his career. “I just looked at him and said, ‘Are you giving us all you got?’

“I knew the answer. I just wanted to make him say it.”

Leveni responded with a simple “Yes, sir.”

“Then who am I to ever question you when all you’ve done is your best?” Spencer said. [NewsOK]

I think sometimes it becomes easy to forget how human the players we all root for are and how hard the game is on their bodies.

Pokes Playing (Relatively) Well

As Kendrick Marshall points out, this nonconference schedule could have been a disaster for OSU, but instead they went 10-2.

Mike Boynton somehow — through all the drama and uncertainty surrounding the basketball program — kept the group together.

And it showed on the court with the Cowboys going 10-2 in the midst of a relatively challenging time.

“I’m proud of them for their focus and their commitment to doing the things that I’ve tried to preach from day one, which is being a really tough and defensive-minded team,” Boynton said. “To be very unselfish and to really, really have some focus on what we’re doing and not necessarily peripheral. It could have been really easy for this team to be distracted after what happened the last two months.” [Tulsa World]

The Big 12, though, oh my.

OSU And NCAA Notes

Tech lost to UAB on Saturday … Josh Rosen won’t play the Cactus Bowl (see below) … Floyd Mayweather says he’ll play Kobe for $1M (would watch!) … Spencer wins Texas AP POY … Key matchups from Orlando ($).

Here’s the OSU Best Buy shopping spree setup.

Chad Whitener got the vacuum.

Mike Gundy thanks those who work for OSU behind the scenes.

So good.

Even better.

This was awesome.

Complete and utter insanity in the game Spencer Sanders was supposed to play in.

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Other Stuff I’m Reading
  • I finished Klosterman’s X and The Hopefuls last week. X was great, The Hopefuls was fun and good but not great.
  • My buddy Kevin Van Valkenburg is an awesome writer, and he recently talked to Don Van Natta about his #process as well as his journey. Awesome listen.
  • Speaking of pods, Tim Urban with Kevin Rose. Fully subscribed.
  • The most economically powerful thing you can do is to buy something for your own enjoyment that also improves the world. This has always been the value proposition of journalism and art. It’s a nonexclusive good that’s best enjoyed nonexclusively. (Kottke)
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