Daily Bullets (July 17): Boone Pickens Stadium – Formerly Highly Intimidating

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OSU Bullets

• Drew Mestemaker can have a year that does worse statistically than last year, but would still be historic (PFB) • Viktor Hovland and Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra are the high Pokes in England after round one (The Open) • This is kind of impressive/a bummer at the same time – anonymous Big 12 players were surveyed on what the toughest place to play in the Big 12 annually over the last three years, and this year Boone Pickens Stadium didn’t register a vote after two years around the top.  

Players said Oklahoma State’s Boone Pickens Stadium was the toughest place to play two years ago in a very close vote. Last year, BYU’s LaVell Edwards Stadium easily won; Boone Pickens finished eight votes behind in second. This year’s winner is…LaVell Edwards Stadium once again. [Open for Business]

• A touted high school golfer from Oklahoma City committed to OSU – perceived as one of the top junior golfers in the country (Instagram) • 7-5 feels totally reasonable for this squad:

Oklahoma State Football win probabilities according to ESPN’s FPI: at Tulsa 78.5% Oregon 9.2 Murray State 99.0 at West Virginia 50.9 UCF 65.9 at Houston 32.1 Colorado 53.6 at Iowa State 56.2 at Kansas State 38.6 Texas Tech 14.2 at Arizona State 37.4 Kansas 58.0

— Cayden McFarland (@caydenmc) July 16, 2026

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Non-OSU Bullets

• Your 40s are now your “prime years” • Malcolm Gladwell podcast on the time Staten Island tried to leave NYC

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