The Morning Fade – 4.4.11

What a great sports day: first practice round of Masters week, Butler again for the title, baseball in full swing. Plenty of OSU sports to talk about. Hope you’re enjoying it.

Great insight from Ryan Herrington on OSU’s win at Augusta St. against Tennessee with Fowler and Uihlein stalking the back nine with them. (Golf World)

Brandon Weeden and Justin Blackmon are as infatuated with Justin Gilbert as I am. And that’s saying something. (News OK)

Everyone is treating the new practice facility like it’s the Manhattan Project or something. Why can’t we just get underway with this? (Tulsa World)

OSU should be able to fill the Kendall Hunter void with five guys, no? (News OK)

Good read from Jimmie Tramel here on Uihlein. Synopsis to save you the time: it does not suck to live Peter Uihlein’s life. (Tulsa World)

Your daily “best Butler story I could find on the internet” update. (ESPN)

Good recap of the OSU Nebraska baseball series from Husker Extra. Read about OSU’s 12-7 mashing on Friday here, another Cowboys shutout (10-0) on Saturday here, and the Huskers finally posting a W on Sunday here.

Eisenberg weighs in on how indefensible the Mizzou hiring of Frank Haith is. (The Dagger)

72 reasons why the Masters is the best sporting event in the world. I could read these articles all day. (The Postgame)

We got this wildly underrated news last night that makes me simultaneously overjoyed and terrified…

I don’t know if this is creepy or awesome or both.