Oklahoma State Cowboys NCAA Football News

We all know about the players that are getting the preseason attention. It also happens that they are the top three of this list... by David Hedlind 53 reads We all know about the players that are getting the preseason attention.

For the first time since ascending to the top position in the Oklahoma State football program, Mike Gundy enters a season with an overall record of above .500 - and with the pressure of a preseason national ranking.

Ten Best OSU Players 1. WR Dez Bryant, Jr. 2. OT Russell Okung, Sr. 3. QB Zac Robinson, Sr.

While he stars as a receiver, Dez Bryant also excels as a punt returner. The Cowboys' Sept.

The Big 12 Conference is considered the best passing league in the county, which means no position is under more pressure to perform than cornerback.

OSU's Pettigrew works well with Stafford: Quarterback Matthew Stafford isn't the only Detroit rookie who has picked up a nickname.

Underdogs. We all look for them, but give little thought about their possibilities of winning it all.

Wide receiver Roy Williams continues to work with quarterback Tony Romo on their timing during Cowboys minicamp this week in Carrollton.

Six weeks after he was paralyzed from the waist down, Rich Behm attended both sessions of the Cowboys ' minicamp.

Oklahoma State's special teams are being called the best in college football in the latest issue of Sporting News Magazine.

The college football season is creeping up on us. I know this because I just checked out the magazine racks at the local supermarkets and the college annuals and their forecasts are already are on sale.

This weekend brings both cowboys and Indians to the area. The cowboys - and cowgirls - are competitors in the Kansas State High School Rodeo Association State Finals at the Kansas Expocentre, and the Indians are participants in the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Powwow at the Prairie People's Park west of Mayetta on the tribe's reservation.

Watch out Barry Sanders, you could be stiff-armed by German Fernandez. I know it's blasphemy not to have Barry Sanders listed at the top of every Oklahoma State sporting list, but could it be that he at least has company for greatest Cowboy sports season ever? Although their sports are not comparable, their achievements are.

"It's summertime, summertime, summertime," sang The Jamies in 1958. It is a song that says it all about this time of year.

Another Dez for Heisman? Unlikely since wide receivers tend to not get the same DAC love of the runners and passers, but odd that the clear top two each share a unique name.

Over the years, billionaire booster T. Boone Pickens has invested quite a chunk of change in making Oklahoma State into a competitive football program.

A year ago, Alabama was coming off a six-loss season that included an embarrassing home stumble against Louisiana-Monroe. The Tide responded with 12 victories in 2008 and remained in the national championship discussion until December.

Having just returned from vacation in Las Vegas, I thought it only fitting to handicap the 2009 Heisman Trophy race.

A relative unknown east of the Rockies, Best is a dynamic playmaker that will always keep California in games.

Justin Bloxom went 5-for-5 with two home runs, and Kansas State made an impressive NCAA tournament debut with a 16-8 victory over Xavier on Friday.