Good morning Pokes! We know that a lot of you might be moving a little slow this morning, so we wanted to provide you with some light-hearted entertainment.

We’ll get your brains rolling this morning, give you a pro update on both the diamond and course, and catch up with a highly touted prospect in next week’s MLB Draft

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

🥇 So, Who You Got?
⚾️ Pokes Pod With MLB Prospect
🏈 Countdown to Kickoff
🤠 And so much more!

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By next week at this time, the 2023 MLB Amateur Draft will be finalized and one of the names that is expected to be called in the early rounds is familiar to OSU fans: Roc Riggio.

Projected as a possible top-five round selection, Riggio hit .335 with 18 HRs and 61 RBIs this past spring. He was a 2021 selection by the Brewers a few years ago before coming to Stillwater.

Early this year, OSU Max sat down with Riggio to talk about his journey to OSU, his life through baseball and much more.

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 So, Who You Got?!? This week is full of patriotism and we want to hear from you!

Oklahoma State has been represented at EVERY Olympic Games since 1924.

In total, OSU athletes have won 33 medals throughout the years.

68 different OSU alums have participated in the Olympic Games throughout the history.

So, who’s on your Mount Rushmore of OSU Olympians?

🔼 Winner’s Circle (x2)! Hey golf world, might want to order some more Orange and Black for the wardrobe, because OSU alums are here and making plenty of noise.

This weekend, the hot streak of former Cowboys dominating the course continued as not one, but TWO alums took home the top prize in the PGA and LIV Tours.

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.

Fowler’s victory followed up Talor Gooch, who hoisted 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.

🔼 Let’s Head Home. After rolling into the semifinals of the FIBA U19 World Cup in Hungry over the 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.

🔼 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.

🤠 A YEAR TO REMEMBER

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.

🏈 COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF: 59 DAYS

Let’s all be honest. We’ll never get tired of watching plays from a magical 2011 season.

Every discussion around the table or at the local establishment reminds us all of a play that we love to talk about.

Today’s play? The 59 yd scoop and scamper from OSU great Jamie Blatnick to set up another Cowboy touchdown to put OSU up 17-0 against the Sooners.

Just listen to the crowd in that clip.

If that doesn’t put goosebumps on your arms, I don’t know what will.

Who’s ready for some football this fall?

🤔 COWBOY TRIVIA

As we mentioned above, 68 OSU alums have suited up in the Olympics, including at least one in every Olympic Games since 1924.

That includes 33 medals, 20 of which are gold!

Do you know which OSU sport has the most Olympians?

Think you got it?

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

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Let’s be honest. There’s not many things better than taking down the Horns.

We can probably name a few, but there’s not many.

And via the walk-off in front of the home crowd at O’Brate? Can’t get much better than that, but we’ll relive exactly that on today’s edition of the OSU Max flashback.

🎥 OSU Access: The Ninth Inning Rally Over The Horns

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🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: Led by the 🐐 himself, the OSU Wrestling team.

Two-time gold medal winner John Smith has seen 40 different Cowboys reach the Olympic stage throughout the years.

It is also the longest standing sport as the first two OSU Olympians were Guy Lookabaugh and Orion Stuteville, who wrestled in the 1924 games in Paris.

Let’s have a great Hump Day!