Daily Bullets (Sept. 17): NCAA Announces a Season Start Date for Basketball, Lots of Tulsa Talk

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OSU Bullets

• College Basketball has it’s start date set in November – enjoy this hilarious video from Mike Boynton to get all your questions answered: 

BREAKING: We now take you live to our press conference with @thacoachmike on the @NCAA basketball start-date announcement.#LetsWork I #GoPokes pic.twitter.com/aRUukLwKuC

— OSU Cowboy Basketball (@OSUMBB) September 16, 2020

• Ragusa deep dives into the offense of OSU’s first opponent this Saturday

• Bill Haisten says this is what the Pokes will need to pull out a win Saturday against Tulsa:

Against a Tulsa team driven by a veteran quarterback and that overall is comparable to Arkansas State and Louisiana, Oklahoma State will need the type of on-point execution that K-State and Iowa State lacked on Saturday and that Kansas hasn’t had for a long time. [TulsaWorld]

• Linebacker Malcolm Rodriguez at 230 pounds (at 5’11”) sounds terrifying

• Five Pokes to watch in this week’s U.S. Open (golf)

• I reread this incredible piece on James Washington from 2017 yesterday, so good

• Dallas Cowboys have officially put Blake Jarwin on the injured reserve list

• Pokes are solidly in it to land a three-star linebacker from Texas

• Missed this yesterday – this phone call between John Smith and Thurman Thomas (the prior notifying the latter) on his induction into the “ring of honor” is great.

Non-OSU Bullets

• Really cool story about a billionaire who gave away almost all of his wealth
• I needed this faith-based take – “built on a single behavior”

Something strangely calming about watching these NFL follies from Week 1: