College Baseball This Week, June 8-14
Friday (June 12) – Sunday/Monday (June 21/22) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Saturday, October 17, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, October 12 - 18
Monday – M Tennis at ITA Texas Men’s Regional Championships, Fort Worth
Monday – W Tennis at ITA Texas Men’s Regional Championships, Waco
Monday-Tuesday – W Golf at Illini Women’s Invitational, Medinah, IL
Thursday (6 pm CT) – Soccer vs. North Texas ESPN+
Friday-Sunday – M Tennis at Ralph O’Connor Invitational
Friday – W/M XC at Arturo Barrios Invitational, College Station
Friday (3 pm CT) – Baseball vs. San Jacinto EXH
Friday (6 pm CT) – Volleyball at Tulsa
Sat (3:30 pm CT) – Football vs. Tulsa Radio l ESPN+ l Game Notes: Rice l Tulsa
Sunday – W Golf at Jim West Challenge, San Marcos
Sunday (12 pm CT) – Volleyball at Wichita State
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week October 12 - 18
Until December 19 – Moody Center: Radiant Geometries
Until October 17 – Sarofim Gallery: Off the Press/Off the Wall
Monday-Friday – Week of Well-Being
Monday (12:30 pm CT) – SRUW l Seminar with John Boles
Tuesday (6:30 pm CT) – A Virtual Alumni Happy Hour
Wednesday (11 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: Amy Shoenthal
Wednesday (12 pm CT) – CAAAS Speaker Series: Dr La Marr Jurelle Bruce
Wednesday (4 pm CT) – Play that Funky Music, Woodson
Wednesday (4:30 pm CT) – REA l New York City Social
Wednesday (7 pm CT) – Rice Alumni October Virtual Book Club: John Kenney
Thursday (11 am CT) – "Save Sammy the OWL” Escape Room Challenge
Thursday (4 pm CT) – Baker Event: Egypt with Amy Gaul
Fri (12 pm CT) – Rice Anthropology Brown Bag Talk with Kimberley McKinson
Friday (7 pm CT) – Rice Cinema: Odd Man Out
Saturday (12:30 pm CT) – SPLASHDOWN: Engineering Design Competition
Saturday (7 pm CT) – Rice Cinema: The Trial
Sunday (9 am - 1 pm CT) – Rice Village Farmers Market
Shepherd School Events This Week, October 12 - 18
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Rice Football:
Rice and Tulsa Look for First Conference Win (Rice Owls)
Preview: Tulsa (Houston Chronicle)
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
Ralph O'Connor Invitational:
Day One Recap (Rice Owls)
Rice Volleyball:
Owls Hand Tulsa First Conference Loss (Rice Owls)
Arturo Barrios Invitational:
Recap: Women l Men (Rice Owls)
Other News
Doerr Institute:
Doerr Institute launches new Team Coaching Program (RIce Owls)
Adventurous Electric Guitar Festival:
Is the electric guitar cool again? (Rice News)
James Patrick Tatum (1938-2026):
On October 9, Pat Tatum passed away. A native Texan, he earned a BA from Rice (Will Rice) in 1961 and a PhD in Chemistry from Florida State in 1966. He joined the Chemistry Department at Indiana State in 1968 where he became a full professor and retired in 2001. Also, he “loved classical music, opera, ballet, and plants”. Click here for the 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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