Daily Bullets: ‘Oklahoma State basketball is back with a vengeance’

Hoops

At what point do we start worrying about this Smart wrist thing? And at what point do we stop pushing the “he just LOVES OSU and that’s why he came back” narrative when he’s basically telling us he came back because he had a bum wrist? (NewsOK)

Must read here on media day quotes from Smart and Co. Markel on Stevie-Forte shooting contests: The battles between (Forte) and (Clark) were legendary. (Rivals)

Some really interesting rule changes here that I didn’t know about. (NCAA)

Gottlieb ranks OSU ahead of Kentucky. (CBS Sports)

Brian Williams will play the four to start the year. OSU is going to be crazy small. (Tulsa World)

Shouldn’t Marcus be the one carrying Markel and Nash here? (NewsOK)

Rick Pitino will have to play. (CBS Sports)

Football

Berry ranks the zero and one-loss teams. (NewsOK)

All of Gundy’s quotes from yesterday’s presser. (PFB)

If you guessed zero OSU offensive players on the midseason All-Big 12 team please collect your prize. (Fox SW)

Love my employer! (CBS Sports)

It feels weird to lump Baylor and Tech together. Baylor has been so, so much better. (B/R)

Good recap of the Big 12 season so far here by Ubben. TCU-Tech really was nutty. (Fox SW)

Kliff, still doing work. (ESPN)

Pokes are 7-6 under Gundy when coming off bye weeks. (PFB)

Gundy: There’s a lot of parity in this league. I’ve said this for a number of years now. It’s increasing each season. (Yahoo)

The UT-VT game at Bristol will be crazy. (CBS Sports)

Shaggy & Blade! (Tulsa World)

I agree with this, OSU as the fifth best team right now. (ESPN)

Other

This Bill Simmons interview on the future of NBA Countdown was so awesome. (Sports Illustrated)

Evernote CEO on the future of paper. (Fast Company)

If you work at an office, this will interest you. (Church Mag)

This Phillp Rivers GIF is all-time. (Deadspin)

Ahhh, this on bloggers is so great. (Onion)

Pretty interesting post on Gladwell’s methods. (Knight Science Journalism)

Full screen Mario? Full screen Mario. h/t Matt Fletcher (Mario)

The Walking Dead ratings are INSANE. (EW)

Really great piece here on the swings of Peter Uihlein and Morgan Hoffmann. (GolfDigest)

OSU with the No. 1 student union. h/t @orangepowercom (Best College Reviews)

O RLY?

Travis Ford: "Stevie (Clark) is the quickest guy with the ball on our team. He’s really tough to stop once he’s playing downhill." #okstate

— Kelly Hines (@KellyHinesTW) October 15, 2013

Awesome.

Marcus Smart says that the Cowboys don't care who they play, that will team "will feel like it's the worst game they've played" #okstate

— John Helsley (@jjhelsley) October 14, 2013

Yes he is.

#OKState put everyone's Twitter handles in their basketball media guide. @KevinDeShazo is smiling somewhere.

— Brendon (@brendon_wm) October 14, 2013

Interesting.

Players hinting at changes on O-Line. Hmm, personnel or schematic? Nobody's saying. #okstate

— John Helsley (@jjhelsley) October 14, 2013

Looks great.

Update on the baseball team.

Sick.

New 30 for 30 tonight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdAH02ocPEo

Eric Allen is surprised the Browns are sticking with Weeden.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMZUc5zkh3c