Rice Baseball This Week, March 18-24
Tue (6:30 pm CT) – at Houston Game Notes: Rice l UH l LS l Radio l TV: ESPN+
Probables: RHP Robert Fernandez (0-1, 6.30) and TBA
Wed (6:30 pm CT) – vs. Houston Game Notes: Rice l UH l LS l Radio l TV: ESPN+
Probables: RHP Tucker Alch (0-0, 0.00) and TBA
Fri (6:30 pm CT) – vs. Tulane Game Notes: Rice l TUL l LS l Radio l TV: ESPN+
Probables: TBA and TBA
Sat (2 pm CT) – vs. Tulane Game Notes: Rice l TUL l LS l Radio l TV: ESPN+
Probables: TBA and TBA
Sun (1 pm CT) – vs. Tulane Game Notes: Rice l TUL l LS l Radio l TV: ESPN+
Probables: TBA and TBA
RICE UPDATE
Monday, March 18, 2024
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, March 18-24
Monday-Tuesday – Golf at All-American Intercollegiate, Humble
Tuesday (11 am CT) – W Tennis vs. Tulsa
Wednesday-Saturday – NCAA W Swimming Championship, Athens GA
Wednesday (2 pm CT) – M Tennis vs. Dartmouth
Thursday-Saturday – Victor Lopez Classic
Friday (11 am CT) – M Tennis vs. UAB
Fri (3 pm CT) – #14 Rice vs. #3 LSU, NCAA W Basketball Tournament Radio l ESPN
Friday (5 pm CT) – Volleyball vs. Houston (EXH)
Sunday (11 am CT) – M Tennis vs. Wichita State
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, March 18-24
Until May 11 – Hayv Kahraman: The Foreign in Us
Tuesday (4 pm CT) – 2024 Women’s History Month Lecture: Alison Kafer
Tuesday (6 pm CT) – REA l Engineer Your Career
Tuesday (6 pm CT) – Baker Event: The Two-Parent Privilege
Wednesday (9 am CT) – Urban Farm Volunteer Hours
Wed (11 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: How to Kickstart Fearless Feedback
Wednesday (12 pm CT) – Rice Anthropology Brown Bag Lecture with Jerry Zee
Wednesday (7 pm CT) – Kinder Institute Forum: Adam Gamoran
Thursday-Friday – Black Houston(s): Places & Memory
Thu (12 pm CT) – Boniuk Institute Reading Religious Salon: Faithful Scientists
Thursday (12 pm CT) – Baker Event: Global Energy: Qatar’s LNG Expansion
Thursday (3 pm CT) – Baker Event: Indonesia in Transition
Thursday (5:30 pm CT) – Free Expression and DEI
Thursday (7 pm CT) – Grotto of Death
Friday-Sunday – BSA On the Rise weekend
Friday (4 pm CT) – 2024 Camden Lecture featuring Chi-Ming Yang
Friday (6 pm CT) – We Have Not Come Here to Die presented by Rice Cinema
Saturday (4 pm CT) – Does Your House Have Lions?
Saturday (6 pm CT) – A Night of Knowing Nothing
Sunday (9 am CT) – Urban Farm Volunteer Hours
Shepherd School Events This Week, March 18-24
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Rice Stadium:
UFL's Roughnecks set to call Rice Stadium home (The Rice Thresher)
Professional Baseball News
Tyler Duffey (Thanks, Jimmy Disch!):
Royals reliever's melanoma diagnosis hits close to home (MLB.com)
College Baseball News
College Baseball:
D1 Digest: Saturday Roundup (D1Baseball.com)
Other Sports News
Rice M Basketball:
Rice Announces a Change of Leadership (Rice Owls)
Pera Dismissed (The Rice Thresher)
Rice Track:
Women Open Outdoor Campaign at UTSA (Rice Owls)
Men Open Outdoor Season at Three Meets (Rice Owls)
Rice Swimming:
Owls Finish Weekend at FAST Time Trials (Rice Owls)
Rice Golf:
Owls Set to Co-Host All-American Intercollegiate (Rice Owls)
Other News
Rice Commencement:
Astronaut and alumna tapped as commencement speaker (Rice News)
David Leebron:
David Leebron joins Texas-focused policy center (The Rice Thresher)
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
Jimmy Disch is a 2024 ARA Meritorious Service Award honoree whose mother Dorothy Ethel Seaman graduated from Rice in 1926 and whose two children also earned Rice degrees, Christi a BA in 2007 and Scott a Masters in 2008. And his uncle Ben Melton graduated from Rice in 1925. Read more.
The 2024 ARA Awards Dinner will take place on Thursday, May 2 at The Post Oak (1600 W. Loop S). Click here for a list of the 2024 Laureates Awards Honorees.
Way to go, Ted Richard, Jimmy Disch, Art Gottschalk, Martha Proctor Gano, Ann Bixby, David Ownby, Kellen Theriot, Jeff Ross, Tom Roebuck, Paul Reese, Bill Allison, James Walker, Richard Zansitis, Mike Ross, Melinda Clark, Betty Bixby and Sallie Schwall!
Next trivia question on Tuesday, March 19!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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