College Baseball This Week, June 8-14
Friday (June 12) – Sunday/Monday (June 21/22) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, August 24-30
Thursday (6 pm CT) – Soccer vs. Vanderbilt ESPN+
Friday (6 pm CT) – Volleyball vs. South Alabama, Mobile AL ESPN+
Saturday-Monday – M Tennis at HotelPlanner UTR, GRBTC
Saturday (2 pm CT) – Volleyball vs. Georgia State, Mobile AL
Sunday (11 am CT) – Volleyball vs. Mississippi State, Mobile AL
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, August 24-30
Until August 29 – Moody Center: Masako Miki: Shapeshifters, Sprites, and Spirits
Monday – First Day of Classes
Tuesday (11 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: Tom Hardin
Wednesday (8 am CT) – Wednesday Wellness: Whoo's Ready to Walk?
Wednesday (6:30 pm CT) – Houston l Welcome to the NeighboorHOOT
Thursday (11 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: Colin Coggins and Garrett Brown
Thursday (4 pm CT) – Triple Crown Celebration
Thursday (8:30 pm CT) – Lunar Eclipse: Campus Observatory Open House and Talk
Saturday (11 am CT) – Washington DC l Good Hope Community Day
Sunday (4 pm CT) – Bay Area l Welcome to the NeighboorHOOT
Shepherd School Events This Week, August 24-30
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Rice Unfiltered:
Click here to watch the latest episode with host Chuck Pool discussing the historic 2006 Owls football team and next week’s Huddle-Up Reunion. His guests are Owl legends Jarett Dillard and Chase Clement as well as Major Applewhite who was the offensive coordinator that season.
Rice Football:
Episode 236: 2026 Rice Football Defense and Special Teams Preview (The Roost)
Professional Baseball News
MLB/MiLB Scoreboard Yesterday:
Tristan Gray (.197) singled and scored for AAA St. Paul.
Complete Owls stats are here.
College Baseball News
Blaine Brown:
Blaine Brown undergoes elbow surgery (GoVOLS247)
Other Sports News
Rice Athletics:
What to know about every team on campus (The Rice Thresher)
Rice Volleyball:
Season Preview (The Rice Thresher)
Other News
Rebecca Richards-Kortum:
Rice360 project aims to bring faster breast cancer diagnosis to rural Texas (Rice News)
The Rice Thresher:
The Rice Thresher published yesterday. You can check it out here.
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
Vanderbilt alumni Watson Brown (1984-85) and Jess Neely (1940-66) were head football coaches at Rice. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)
Tomorrow, Owls soccer hosts the Commodores at Holloway Field.
Way to go, Bev Schorre (2), Bryant Wilkinson (2), Nancy Bailey, Steve Gilliland (2), Ann Bixby (2), Art Gottschalk (2), Kirkwood Johnston, Ted Richard (2), Mary Jane Kinnebrew, James Walker (2), John Montana (2), Martha Proctor Gano (2), Clarke Anderson (2), Bob Toone (2), Betty Bixby (2), Randy Schaffer (2), Walt Greenberg, Harvin Moore (2), Steve Lukingbeal, Arthur Rogers (2), Susan Zimmerman (2), Scott Wise (2), Andy Williams (2), Anne Eldredge (2), Joe Quoyeser (2), John Cabaniss, Josh Schaffer (2), Guy Rollins (2), Ty Buthod (2), Paul Reese (2), Russell Henderson (2), Boyd Harrison (2), Greg Williams (2), Nancy Burch (2), Larry Nettles (2), Ben Mayberry, Danny Brennan, Chris Kohnhorst (2), Kirwin Drouet (2), Melinda Clark (2), Brian Lattimer (2) and Mike Ross (2)!
Next trivia question tomorrow!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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Corrections, comments and updates welcome