Rice Baseball This Week, May 11-17
Tuesday – Houston 14, Rice 3 Box l Recap: Rice l UH l Roost
Thursday – Rice 12, Tulane 0 Box l Recap: Rice l TUL
Friday (6:35 pm CT) – vs. Tulane Game Notes: Rice l TUL l LS l Radio l ESPN+
Probables: RHP Ethan Sanders (5-5, 3.82) and TBA
Saturday (1:05 pm CT) – vs. Tulane Game Notes: Rice l TUL l LS l Radio l ESPN+
Probables: RHP Ryland Urbanczyk (4-4, 2.75) and TBA
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Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, May 11-17
Thursday-Saturday – American Outdoor W/M Track Championships, Denton
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, May 11-17
Wednesday (11 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: John Coleman
Wednesday (6 pm CT) – Recent Alumni Run Club
Wednesday (7 pm CT) – Rice Alumni May Virtual Book Club: Sara Nisha Adams
Wednesday (7 pm CT) – Shanghai l Meet and Greet with Yvonne Romero
Thursday-Friday – Rice Strategy Symposium on Emerging Markets
Thu (5:30 pm CT) – Baker Event: Protracted Displacement in the MENA Region
Thursday (6:30 pm CT) – DC l Comedy Show with Matthew Broussard ‘10
Saturday (1 pm CT) – LA l LACMA Tour with Claire E Spadafora, PhD ‘19
Saturday (11 pm CT) – Singapore l Brunch with Reginald DesRoches
Sunday (9 am - 1 pm CT) – Rice Village Farmers Market
Sunday (2 pm CT) – DFW l Volun-CHEERS
Shepherd School Events This Week, May 4-10
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Chris Boswell:
Boswell Signs Record Extension (ESPN)
Professional Baseball News
Owls in MLB:
Update: May 13 (The Roost)
MLB/MiLB Scoreboard Yesterday:
Dane Myers (.224) hit a 3-run homer for the Reds.
Complete Owls stats are here.
College Baseball News
American Conference Baseball:
Final Regular Season Week Roundup (The Roost)
Other Sports News
Mitchell Meissner '18:
After round 1 yesterday, Mitchell Meissner was T145 at +4 at the Colonial Life Charity Classic in Elgin SC on the Korn Ferry Tour. Leaderboard here.
Other News
Gabriela Lena Frank '94/'96:
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera dream together again at Met Opera (NPR)
Lauren Hennelly:
Indian and Tibetan wolves found to have important, ancient genetics (Rice News)
Valerie Hale (1962-2026):
On May 4, Valerie Hale passed away due to a rare form of T-cell lymphoma. Born in Oklahoma, she earned a BA from Rice (Brown College) in 1984 and a PhD from the University of Utah in 1992, both in Psychology. She enjoyed a “private practice specializing in the divorce and child custody population and psychotherapy for children and adults”. She “was a force of nature and changed countless lives for the better by encouraging others to accomplish more than they ever imagined for themselves”. She is survived by, among others, her husband Kevin Winn and their two children Stephanie Winn and Henry Winn. Click here for the obituary.
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
Rice graduate Tom Vincent ’25 is currently on the Tulane baseball roster. The Owls are hosting the Green Wave to a three game set at Reckling Park, beginning last night. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst!)
Way to go, Mike Ross, Betty Bixby, Bob Toone, James Walker, Melinda Clark, Art Gottschalk, Martha Proctor Gano, Jimmy Disch, Ted Richard, Arthur Rogers, Clarke Anderson, John Montana, Andy Williams, Ann Bixby, Paul Reese, Anne Eldredge, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, Guy Rollins, Walt Greenberg, Susan Zimmerman, Boyd Harrison, Brian Lattimer, Chris Kohnhorst and Greg Williams!
Next trivia question next Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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