College Baseball This Week, June 8-14
Friday (June 12) – Sunday/Monday (June 21/22) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Saturday, September 12, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, September 7-13
Thursday (6 pm CT) – Soccer vs. UL-Monroe ESPN+
Friday-Sunday – M Tennis at Midland Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational
Friday – WXC/MXC at Rice Invitational
Friday (6 pm CT) – Volleyball vs. #5 Louisville ESPN+
Sat (2:30 pm CT) – Football vs. #3 Notre Dame Radio l ESPN+ l GN: Rice l ND
Saturday (4 pm CT) – Volleyball vs. UNI ESPN+
Sunday (12 pm CT) – Soccer at South Alabama
Sunday (2:30 pm CT) – Volleyball vs. #15 Creighton ESPN+
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, September 7-13
Until December 19 – Moody Center: Radiant Geometries
Tuesday (2:30 pm) – Moody Center: Natalia Montoya Lecaros
Wednesday (8:20 am CT) – Baker Event: The Age of Depopulation
Wednesday (12 pm CT) – CAAAS Speaker Series: Dr Bianca Murillo
Wednesday (12 pm CT) – Revisiting the Task Force l Mellon Sawyer Seminar
Wednesday (4 pm CT) – Play That Funky Music, Woodson
Wednesday (7 pm CT) – Rice Alumni September Virtual Book Club: Colin Cotterill
Thursday (1 pm CT) – Transnational Asia Speaker Series: Marta E Hanson
Thursday (6 pm CT) – Books that Shaped My World with Anne Chao ’05 Sold Out
Thursday (6 pm CT) – SCOPE Science Café: Volcanologist Dr Julia Morgan
Thursday (6:30 pm CT) – Brains in a Bar: Susannah Wright ’18 and Scott McGill
Friday (4:30 pm CT) – Baker Event: A Conversation with Dr Robert George
Friday (6 pm CT) – Chicago l A Reception with President Reginald DesRoches
Sunday (9 am CT) – Houston l Bills vs Texans Field Experience and Game
Sunday (10 am CT) – Washington DC l Welcome to the NeighborHOOT
Sunday (9 am CT) – Denver l Welcome to the NeighborHOOT
Shepherd School Events This Week, September 7-13
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Rice Football:
Owls Open Road Slate at #3 Notre Dame (Rice Owls)
Irish Host Owls in Home Opener (Notre Dame Athletics)
'We aren't going to roll over' (Houston Chronicle)
Professional Baseball News
MLB/MiLB Scoreboard Yesterday:
Trei Cruz (.254) hit a RBI single and walked twice for AAA Toledo.
Garrett Stratton (0-0, 8.10) allowed 1 earned run in 2 innings in relief for AAA Syracuse.
Complete Owls stats are here.
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
Pierce Adds 11 to Roster (Rice Owls)
Other Sports News
Rice Volleyball:
Owls Take Set Off No. 5 Louisville (Rice Owls)
Rice Cross Country Invitational:
Crow Finishes Second (Rice Owls)
Martz Leads Owls (Rice Owls)
Rice Men's Club Water Polo:
Click here for the Rice Men’s Club Water Polo 2026 schedule. The Club competes at Texas Tech next weekend.
Mitchell Meissner '18:
After round 2 yesterday, Mitchell Meissner is T41 at -6 and made the cut at the Simmons Bank Open in Franklin, TN on the Korn Ferry Tour. Leaderboard here.
Other News
Best in Class:
Rice ranks no. 16 nationally in Forbes’ America’s Top Colleges list (Rice News)
Shepherd School:
Faculty recitals reveal culture built on collaboration (Rice News)
Annika Bhandari '30:
A day in the life of a Rice student, 1926 (The Rice Thresher)
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
Rice football Assistant Offensive Line coach Clay Davie is the son of former Notre Dame football Head Coach Bob Davie (1997-2001). Tomorrow afternoon, the #3 Irish football team hosts the Owls in South Bend.
Way to go, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, Arthur Gottschalk, Mike Ross, Ann Bixby, Ty Buthod, Andy Williams, Ted Richard, Anne Eldredge, Martha Proctor Gano, John Montana, Bob Toone, Arthur Rogers, Clarke Anderson, Kirkwood Johnston, Sallie Schwall, Paul Reese, Brian Lattimer, Betty Bixby, Susan Zimmerman, Boyd Harrison, James Walker, Guy Rollins, Chris Kohnhorst, Melinda Clark, Steve Brown and Dan Hyde!
Next trivia question next Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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Corrections, comments and updates welcome