Happy July Everyone! No need to wait for Tuesday, we got the celebrating started early this year!

Covered in Cowboy Orange, former OSU star Rickie Fowler returned to the winning circle for the first since 2019 and took us on quite a ride to get there.

Dailey Jr. and Team USA round out their time at FIBA World Cup, more Cowboys lauded for success both in classroom and on the track, and much more!

What else is stirring in today’s edition of the Brew? Check it out!

⛳️ Back On Top
⚾️ And Another One…
🏀 Let’s Head Home
🤠 And so much more!

🎧 OSU MAX PODCASTS

Next week at this time, we’ll be deep into the 2023 MLB Amateur draft.

It’s an event that the Cowboys have plenty of experience with and will again this year.

No better person to give us an in-depth look into what it’s like to go through the draft process, work through the minor leagues and make waves at the highest level than an all-time great, Robin Ventura.

We throw it back to this exclusive sit-down with one of the greatest to ever do it at the collegiate level.

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 HE… IS… BACK! The great Ricky Bobby once said, “if you’re not first, you’re last.”

Well, after 1,600 days, OSU great Rickie Fowler returned to that vaunted first position after weeks of being on the cusp this spring. He drilled a 12-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole at Sunday’s final round of the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit.

He outlasted Collin Morikawa and Adam Hadwin for his first PGA win since February of 2019.

Fowler entered Sunday with a lead, but the hot play of Morikawa and Hadwin forced the OSU great to make a birdie on 18 to enter the the three-way playoff.

🔼 Two Trophy Weekend. In case the golf world needed any more proof that OSU was a “#GolfSchool”, Talor Gooch put an exclamation point on that by hoisting a second trophy this weekend, picking up his third LIV Golf League title on Sunday in Spain.

Gooch, a 2014 alum, drained a 15-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole to claim the top prize of $4 million and now has earned over $13 million on the LIV season.

Overall, it was his fifth professional win, three coming this year, one on the PGA Tour in 2021 and one on the Web.com Tour in 2017.

🔼 Let’s Head Home. After rolling into the semifinals of the FIBA U19 World Cup in Hungry this past weekend, incoming Cowboy Eric Dailey Jr. and his Team USA squad dropped two games to finish fourth in the tournament.

On Saturday, Team USA fell in a nail-biter to a tough France squad, 89-86, before falling 84-70 to Turkey in the third-place game on Sunday.

In the seven games for Team USA, Dailey Jr. averaged 17.9 minutes per game, scoring 9.7 points, grabbing 4.3 rebounds and dishing out 1.6 assists, while shooting 50-percent from the field in the event.

🔼 Speed and Smarts. Chalk another first in school history up!

Four OSU cross country and track & field athletes were named to the Academic All-America teams late last week to mark the first time in school history that Cowboy cross country and track & field has multiple recipients in the same year.

Sivan Auerbach was named to the first team, Alex Maier was named to the second team, with Fouad Messaoudi and Taylor Roe earning third team honors. With her honor, Auerbach becomes the 10^th Cowgirl track & field athlete to earn first-team recognition.
 
These four honorees give OSU 10 Academic All-Americans this season, which is a new school record. The previous high was nine in 2017-18. The quartet brings OSU's total number of Academic All-Americans to 114, including 47 in the past seven academic years.

🔼 And Another One. What a difference a year can make, huh?

Last spring, Victor Mederos toed the rubber at O’Brate Stadium for the Cowboys.

One year later, Mederos, at just 22 years old, made his major league debut, tossing two innings for the Los Angeles Angels, striking out two and allowing just one hit.

Mederos was turning heads in the Angels organizations with 84 strikeouts in 71.2 career minor league innings.

He becomes the fifth Cowboy in the bigs this year joining Peyton Battenfield, Thomas Hatch, Andrew Heaney and Jonathan Heasley.

🔼 Heckuva Year. 46 All-Americans. 23 Big 12 Individual Champions. 6 Big 12 Champions. School Record 10 Academic All-Americans.

What a year it was for OSU and on Wednesday, that got even better as the Cowboys set a new school record by finishing in the top-25 nationally in the final 2022-23 Learfield Directors' Cup standings.

It marks the first time since the standings were created that the Pokes finished in the top-25 nationally in three straight years. The Learfield Directors' Cup honors institutions having success in all sports in which the NCAA offers a championship, along with FBS football. All sports are weighted equally.

Because Oklahoma State does not sponsor women's volleyball and does not get credit for its performance in equestrian, it has only 17 sports eligible for Learfield Directors' Cup scoring, while most others count points from 19 sports. Operating with a two-sport handicap, Oklahoma State has still finished in the top 25 nationally in each of the last three years and has finished in the top three of the Big 12 in each of the last five years.

🤠 WARNING: MUST.WATCH.

🏈 COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF: 61 DAYS

61 days away from kickoff gives us an awesome opportunity to throwback to this incredible video of our #61 Jake Springfield moving from walk-on to scholarship athlete at OSU.

Springfield is a three-time First Team Academic All-Big 12 honoree and enters 2023 with the most career starts for any returning Cowboy (29).

Last spring, the Flower Mound, Texas native earned Honorable Mention All-Big 12 accolades after starting all 13 games on the Cowboys offensive line and was Pro Football Focus’ second-best pass blocker on the 2023 OSU roster.

In total, he’s appeared in 37 career games with 29 of those being starts.

🤔 COWBOY TRIVIA

Sunday’s win was the sixth of Fowler’s PGA career, dating back to his first in 2012 at the Wells Fargo Championship.

He is one of a long line of OSU alums who have found the winners circle on the TOUR.

Do you know how many former Cowboys have PGA Tour wins on their resume?

Think you got it?

Scroll on down to the bottom of this email for the answer!

🎥 OSU MAX

As several Cowboys prepare for next week’s MLB Amateur Draft, we’re going to spend this week looking back at some exclusive OSU Max features that will bring you behind-the-scenes with the Cowboys.

The beginning of a season can be a slow process at most teams are feeling things out and still getting their feet underneath them.

This spring, the Cowboys kicked the door down to their home slate tossing back-to-back no-hitters for the first time ever in program history!

Go behind the scenes and on the mound with the guys who made it happen!

🎥 OSU Access: The Follow - Back-2-Back No-Nos

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🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: 13 Cowboys have won at least once on the PGA Tour.

Along with Fowler, Bob Tway, Wyndham Clark, Viktor Hovland, Charles Howell III, Hunter Mahan, Lindy Miller, Matt Wolff, Bo Wininger, Bo Van Pelt, Jimmy Wright, Willie Wood and Scott Verplank have all picked up at least one victory on the TOUR.

Let’s get the week started with a bang!