Pistols Firing

May 18, 2012

Daily Bullets

OSU lost a heartbreaker last night to A&M. Heaney was brilliant, until he wasn’t. (NewsOK)

Uh. Oh. (okstate.com)

Ubben notes that OSU has two of the three best ballhawks in the Big 12. (ESPN)

Good post here from Gina on Joseph Randle’s assault on the record books. (NewsOK)

Equally good post from John Helsley on OSU’s RPI. Look at the Oklahoman, doing work with their blogs! (NewsOK)

John Stovall ranks the incoming basketball recruiting classes. Cowboys get an A-. (ESPN Insider)

The kiss of death for Colt. (NFL.com)

OSU-Arizona as the second best Big 12 non-con game next season? Sure. (ESPN)

May 17, 2012

Series Preview: A&M

Photo Attribution: Flickr: bjoelio

When: Tonight – 6:30 PM, Friday – 6:30 PM, Saturday – 1 PM

Where: Allie P. Stadium in Stillwater

Big 12 Standings:

Baylor – 18-3
A&M – 13-8
Texas – 13-8
Oklahoma State 13-8
OU – 13-10 (one game against KU cancelled, finished with Big 12 schedule)

What’s at Stake: A top four finisher in the Big 12 has never missed the NCAA Tournament. Even though the Big 12 is a little down this season, unless OSU gets swept and falls below OU in the standings, they should be safely in. So, don’t get swept.

Pitching Matchups: Tonight is going to be a classic. You guys know the Andrew Heaney story – probable top 15 pick, second in the country in Ks, two-time Big 12 pitcher of the week, but A&M counters with their own blue-chip prospect in Michael Wacha.

In its latest draft projections, Baseball America had Wacha going #14 to the Reds, one pick before Heaney. The two have combined to go 16-1 with 215 Ks and five shutouts on the year. Translation: if you show up 30 minutes late, be prepared to do the 7th inning stretch.

May 17, 2012

Daily Bullets

Huge one at Allie P. tonight with a matchup of potential first round picks. (okstate.com)

Bruce Feldman says Wes Lunt is the most surprising player of the spring. h/t DeShazo (CBS Sports)

Fowler and Mahan go 5-6 in the latest Devil Ball power rankings. (Devil Ball Golf)

A lot at stake in Ann Arbor today for one of the most legendary athletic programs in college sports. (okstate.com)

Not exactly breaking news, but Colt McCoy is a good dude. (Plain Dealer)

What are the odds Mike Holder could pick this woman out of a police lineup? And how much of her promotion had to do with this? (okstate.com)

Charles Howell tees off at 12:30 today. Mahan-Fowler-BVP taking the week off. (PGA Tour)

Wow, Katy Krshka compared to KD and Matt Barkley. (Big 12 Sports)

So…OSU almost didn’t even make regionals in golf. (Golf World)

Ubben says OSU has the 5th best non-con schedule. (ESPN)

May 16, 2012

Report Cards – Part 2

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PART 1

It’s also time for some end of the school year report cards for your OSU athletes and coaches. We’ll be doling these out gently and spreading them out over the next week (so we don’t have to look at all the basketball ones at once).

Le’Bryan Nash - Statistically it’ll go down as one of the five best freshman seasons in school history*. He averaged a 13-5-2-1-0 (points-boards-assists-steals-blocks) and shot 39%/73%/24% (FG/FT/3P) but it always felt like there was something missing. Like he had another gear that he never could find.

Like he was playing as the 25th or 35th best freshman in the country, not the 5th. There’s something there though, and you know we’re all going to be back in late October to see what, if anything, it is.

Mike Gundy - Drew within three wins of the all-time Oklahoma State record by a coach, set in motion the first BCS team in school history, and capped it off with a $1.6M raise. We were a live hair-gelling session on national television away from the first A+ from an OSU coach since Eddie took Tony Allen and Co. to the Final Four in 2004.

May 16, 2012

Daily Bullets

Jimmy Johnson elected to the college football hall of fame. May-July are the slowest of months. (NewsOK)

You wrestling nerds will enjoy this – Coleman Scott doing big boy things in Azerbaijan. (The PA Power Rankings)

Oklahoma State is still projected to make the NCAA baseball tournament. (Perfect Game)

Even though they lost to DBU last night. (okstate.com)

Three Cowgirls on the All-Big 12 first team? And they couldn’t muster a winning record? (Tulsa World)

Andrea Riley on being a mom. h/t Ryan Cameron (Phoenix Mercury)

May 15, 2012

Daily Bullets

Oklahoma State #22 in revenue for the 2011 year. (USA Today)

Weeden mini camp footage. Not a ton there but still weird to see his hands under the butt of the guy snapping the brown thing. h/t Gina Mizell (Cleveland Browns)

Jordan Oliver wins another award. (Tulsa World)

I have no idea, I need a nap just thinking about it though. (ESPN)

Big time lineman visiting Stillwater for the WVU game. (Scout)

Perfect Game has OSU ranked #39. (Perfect Game)

Thurman Thomas on visiting his hometown. (NewsOK)

May 14, 2012

Weekend Update

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OSU activities on non-football weekends tend to get a little lost here on the blog so I wanted to bring everyone up to speed on a few things you might have missed while getting some well-deserved R&R at the beach..

The baseball team swept lowly Alcorn State to complete a 4-1 week headed into the season’s last two series’ (at DBU on Tuesday and home for A&M Thursday-Saturday). Andrew Heaney went the distance on Friday night, running his record to 8-1 with an obscene 1.59 ERA and 120 Ks in 102 innings. The K mark is tops in the Big 12 and second in the country.

Saulyer Saxon and Trey Whaley both collected five knocks on the weekend and Saxon is hitting a toasty .405 since becoming the starting center fielder at Kansas State two weeks ago after Jarrett Higgins was injured on the Wildcats’ ridiculous all-turf infield.

The ending to the softball season was very much a microcosm of the season. The Cowgirls lost in heartbreaking fashion (1-0 in 10 innings) and just one year removed from going to the WCWS will not be participating in postseason play.

Also, while we’re here, I find it odd that 1.) there’s no Big 12 softball tournament (what’s up with that??) and 2.) Iowa State has a softball team but no baseball team. Can you tell I did all my research for this bit in the last nine minutes?! Let’s move along!