RICE UPDATE
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, Jan 27 - Feb 2
Monday (11:30 am CT) – Rice Owls Basketball Show Listen
Tuesday (6 pm CT) – M Basketball at South Florida Radio l TV: ESPNU
Wednesday (7 pm) – W Basketball vs. Tulsa Radio l TV: ESPN+
Friday-Saturday – W/M Track at Robert Platt Invitational, Houston
Friday (12 pm CT) – W Tennis vs. Arizona
Friday (2 pm CT) – Swimming vs. UH
Saturday (TBA) – Swimming at UT
Saturday (12 pm CT) – W Basketball at Florida Atlantic Radio l TV: ESPN+
Saturday (12 pm CT) – W Tennis vs. TCU
Sunday (10:45 am CT) – Baseball Fan Fest
Sunday (2 pm CT) – M Basketball vs. No. 24 Memphis Radio l TV: ESPN+
Sunday (5 pm CT) – M Tennis at Baylor
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, Jan 27 - Feb 2
Until May 10 – Moody Center: Breath(e)
Monday (12 pm CT) – BioSciences Vanzant Lecture Series: Trevor Caughlin
Monday (12:30 pm CT) – SRUW Seminar with Christina Keefe Register
Tuesday (12 pm) – Sociology Speaker Series: Dr Heather O’Connell
Tuesday (4 pm) – Ken Kennedy Institute Spring Kickoff Kyle Cranmer
Tuesday (5:45 pm) – Houston l Recent Alumni Run Club
Wednesday (12 pm) – Architecture Lecture: Annette Fierro
Wednesday (3 pm) – Wellness Wednesday: Lift and Learn
Wednesday (5:30 pm) – FOFL 2025 Rice Authors Celebration
Thursday (4 pm) – Raleigh White Johnson Jr Lecture: David Eagleman
Thursday (4 pm) – Scientia Lecture Series: Democracy
Friday (12 pm) – Architecture Lecture: Javier Agustin Rojas
Friday (4 pm) – English Dept Camden Lecture: Leerom Medovoi
Friday (7 pm) – Sleepy Cyborg Gallery: Spring Exhibition Opening
Saturday (7 pm) – Last Things Presented by Rice Cinema
Sunday (9 am - 1 pm) – Rice Village Farmers Market
Shepherd School Events This Week, January 20-26
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Owls in NFL Playoffs:
In a conference championship game yesterday, Philadelphia defeated Washington (Larry Izzo, Luke McCaffery), 55-23.
Professional Baseball News
Jon Duplantier:
On November 25, 2024, Jon Duplantier signed a minor league contract with the Milwaukee Brewers. He was released by the organization on December 16 and signed with the Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for this upcoming season.
College Baseball News
UT Baseball:
Jim Schlossnagle: Omaha is Mandatory (Houston Chronicle)
Other Sports News
Rice W Tennis:
Schwartzman Named AAC Women's Tennis Player of the Week (Rice Owls)
Rice M Basketball:
Rice Drops Tough Decision to South Florida, 69-64 (Rice Owls)
Early lead fizzles (The Roost)
Rice W Basketball:
Owls Host Tulsa Tonight (Rice Owls)
Other News
Kathryn Cavender:
Campus Safety leader to retire (Rice News)
Rice Business Wisdom:
Study: Hidden inequality exists in auto lending (Rice News)
The Rice Thresher:
The Rice Thresher published yesterday. You can check it out here.
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
Former heavyweight world boxing champion George Foreman, the great uncle of 2024 Rice football early signee Michael Amey III, and former Rice president Malcolm Gillis were scheduled to fight in a charity boxing match. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)
Way to go, Ann Bixby (2), Anne Eldredge (2), Arthur Rogers (2), Tre Fischer (2), Andy Williams (2), Bev Schorre (2), Bryant Wilkinson (2), Russell Henderson, Art Gottschalk (2), Bill Allison (2), Martha Proctor Gano (2), Bob Toone (2), Jeff Ross (2), Mary Jane Kinnebrew, Matt Moake (2), Paul Reese (2), James Walker (2), Brian Lattimer (2), Betty Bixby (2), David Ownby (2), Greg Williams (2), Ben Mayberry, Chris Kohnhorst (2), Bob Reinhold (2), Richard Zansitis (2), Frank Jones, Melinda Clark (2), Scott Wise (2), Kirwin Drouet (2), Sallie Schwall (2), Elizabeth Gillis, Mike Ross (2) and Ted Richard (2)!
Final 2024 trivia leaderboards tomorrow.
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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Corrections, comments and updates welcome