College Baseball This Week, June 8-14
Friday (June 12) – Sunday/Monday (June 21/22) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Monday, October 19, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, October 19 - 25
Monday – W Golf at Jim West Challenge, San Marcos
Monday-Wedmesdau – M Golf at Abilene Christian Intercollegiate, Granbury
Thu-Sun – W/M Tennis at American Individual Tennis Championships, GRBTC
Thu-Sun – W Tennis at JAE Foundation Invite, Fort Worth
Thursday (6 pm CT) – Soccer at South Florida ESPN+
Friday-Saturday – Swimming at Rice Invite
Friday-Sunday – M Tennis at Baylor Invitational
Friday (6 pm CT) – Volleyball at North Texas
Sat (11am CT) – Football at FAU Radio l ESPN+ l Game Notes: Rice l FAU
Saturday (1 pm CT) – Baseball vs. McLennan CC EXH
Sunday (12 pm CT) – Volleyball at Florida Atlantic ESPN+
Sunday (1 pm CT) – Soccer vs. Tulsa ESPN+
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week October 19 - 25
Until December 19 – Moody Center: Radiant Geometries
Until October 24 – Sarofim Gallery: Off the Press/Off the Wall
Monday (12 pm CT) – Vanzant Lecture: Dr Kelly Zamudio
Monday (12 pm CT) – Amplifying Asian American Voices: Dr Karen Siu
Monday (5:30 pm CT) – Baker Event: Mohammad Darawshe
Tuesday (5:30 pm CT) – Baker Event: Paul Ryan
Tuesday (6:30 pm CT) – The Creative Journey of Hong Lin Tsai ‘26
Tuesday (7 pm CT) – Denver l A Reception with President Reginald DesRoches
Wednesday (11 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: Susan Robertson
Wednesday (4 pm CT) – Play that Funky Music, Woodson
Wednesday (5:30 pm CT) – REA l Engineer Your Career Panel
Wednesday (6 pm CT) – CSWGS Gray/Wawro Lecture – Siri Suh
Wednesday (6 pm CT) – Brains in a Bar with Angel Marti
Thursday (8 am CT) – Baker Event: Mexico Country Outlook 2027
Thursday (11 am CT) – "Save Sammy the OWL” Escape Room Challenge
Thursday (4:15 pm CT) – Engineers in the C-Suite: Leslie Duke
Thursday (6 pm CT) – RAM l DFW Social
Thursday (6 pm CT) – Moody Center: Opening Reception for Platform
Friday (11:30 am CT) – Asian American Studies: Dr Lok Siu
Friday (12 pm CT) – Mars and the Search for Life: Kirsten Siebach
Friday (2:30 pm CT) – Transnational Asia Speaker Series l Lok Siu
Friday (5 pm CT) – RAINS & REA l Behind the Scenes Tour: Brockman Hall
Friday (7 pm CT) – Rice Cinema: The Fall
Friday (9 pm CT) – Bay Area l Recent Alumni Social
Saturday (11 am CT) – Mexico City l Coffee Social
Saturday (6 pm CT) – Boston l San Jose Sharks vs Boston Bruins
Saturday (7 pm CT) – Rice Cinema l OBEX
Sunday (9 am CT) – Boca Raton l Rice vs FAU Soccer Pregame Social
Shepherd School Events This Week, October 19 - 25
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Tulsa 38, RIce 17:
Episode 243: Owls Rocked by the Hurricane (The Roost)
Rice Football:
Preview: Florida Atlantic (The Roost)
Professional Baseball News
Playoff Baseball:
Last night, the Brewers defeated the Dodgers, 6-4, to sweep the best-of-seven NL Championship Series, 4-0. Danny Lehmann is the Bench Coach for the Dodgers.
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
Reckling's Roost Upgraded to Club 37 (Rice Owls)
Other Sports News
Rice Volleyball:
Owls Close Weekend with Win (Rice Owls)
Ralph O'Connor Invitational:
Day Three Recap (Rice Owls)
Jim West Challenge:
Day One Recap (Rice Owls)
Abilene Christian Intercollegiate:
Owls Stay In-State (Rice Owls)
Other News
Mary Jax (1929-2026):
On September 21, 2026, Mary Jax passed away. A native Houstonian, she earned a BA from Rice in 1950 where she met her future husband Jerry Jax ’49. She was active in her church. And “she was a friend to everyone she met, and her warmth, kindness, and caring spirit touched the lives of many”. She is predeceased by, among others, Jerry (they were married in 1949 and he passed away in 2015). Click here for the Chronicle obituary.
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
The late Ralph O’Connor was born in Pasadena, California in 1926, graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1951 where he was a member of the football and basketball teams during his freshman and sophomore years and received an Association of Rice Alumni Gold Medal in 1987. He passed away on December 30, 2018. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst!)
This weekend, Rice Men’s Tennis is set to host the Ralph O’Connor Tennis Invitational at the George R Brown Tennis Center.
Ralph O’Connor, 1926-2018 (Melissa Kean January 2, 2019)
Rice trustee emeritus Ralph O’Connor dies at 92 (Rice News January 3, 2019)
A ‘quintessential Blue Jay’ dies at 92 (Johns Hopkins News January 3, 2019)
Way to go, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, Mike Ross, Bob Toone, Kathleen Boyd, Ann Bixby, Kirkwood Johnston, Art Gottschalk, Guy Rollins, Dan Hyde, James Walker, Scott Wise, Steve Lukingbeal, John Montana, Elizabeth Gillis, Arthur Rogers, Anne Eldredge, Martha Proctor Gano, Susan Zimmerman, Clarke Anderson, Chris Kohnhorst, Charles Maynard, Betty Bixby, Boyd Harrison, Melinda Clark, Paul Reese, Richard Zansitis , Tommy LaVergne and Steve Brown!
Next trivia question next Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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