College Baseball This Week, June 8-14
Friday (June 12) – Sunday/Monday (June 21/22) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Tuesday, October 13, 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:
Road Game at FAU Kicks Off at 11 am (Rice Owls)
College Football:
Yesterday, The Athletic re-ranked 138 college football teams for 2026 after week 6, with Rice slipping from 121 to 127. Read here (free content).
Professional Baseball News
Playoff Baseball:
Yesterday, the Brewers defeated the Dodgers, 7-4, to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven NL Championship Series. Game 3 is set for tomorrow. 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
American Conference Athletics:
American Conference Adds James Madison University (AC)
ITA Texas Regional:
Ratkovic Earns NCAA Championship BId (Rice Owls)
RIce Volleyball:
Owls Land Three American Weekly Honors (Rice Owls)
Illini Women's Invitational:
Day One Recap (Rice Owls)
Other News
Kinder Institute:
Houston is booming, even as fertility rates fall (Rice News)
Curtis Eugene Coker (1936-2026):
On September 22, Gene Coker passed away. A native Texan, he graduated from Yale and earned a MA in Geology from Rice in 1960. He worked in real estate development and was involved with companies specializing in the construction of freezer warehouses. Also, he “was an accomplished hunter and fisherman, an avid golfer, and a gardener”. He is survived by, among others, his wife of more than sixty-eight years, Melissa. Click here for the obituary.
Rice Trivia
Trivia Question:
Name one of the original organizers of Beer Bike who has degrees from Rice and a MBA from Harvard and has a building on the Rice campus named after him and his wife. Email your answer here.
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
A condensed version of the Update is available by email
Corrections, comments and updates welcome