College Baseball This Week, June 8-14
Friday (June 12) – Sunday/Monday (June 21/22) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Sunday, October 11, 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
ECU 28, Rice 12:
Episode 242: Rice Comes up Short at ECU (The Roost)
Rice Football:
Preview: Tulsa (The Roost)
Professional Baseball News
Playoff Baseball:
Yesterday, the Brewers edged the Dodgers, 2-1, to take the opening game of the best-of-seven NL Championship Series. Game 2 is set for today. 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
ITA Texas Regional:
Day Four Recap: Women (RIce Owls)
Rice Volleyball:
Owls Close Weekend with Win Over Memphis (Rice Owls)
Rice Soccer:
Rice Scores Late for Draw at ECU (Rice Owls)
Rice W Golf:
Owls Ready for Illini Women’s Invitational at Medinah (Rice Owls)
Mitchell Meissner '18:
Yesterday, Mitchell Meissner finished T45 at -2 at the Korn Ferry Tour Championship in Glen Allen, VA on the Korn Ferry Tour. Leaderboard here.
Other News
Marjorie Johnson (1928-2026):
On September 23, Majorie Johnson passed away. A native Houstonian, she earned a BA in English and Fine Arts from Rice in 1949. Together with her late husband Raleigh ’49, they raised five children. Also, she was very active in the community especially in the field of mental health and in her church. She is predeceased by, among others, Raleigh (they were married for seventy-four years when he passed away in December 2022). Click here for the Chronicle obituary.
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
One-time Austin resident Sanda Bullock, who graduated from East Carolina in 1987, won an Academy Award in 2010 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for The Blind Side. Tomorrow, Pirates football hosts the Owls at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium in Greenville NC. (Way to go, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)
Way to go, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, Ann Bixby, Bob Toone, Art Gottschalk, Kirkwood Johnson, Ted Richard, Mike Ross, Martha Proctor Gano, John Montana, Arthur Rogers, Joe Quoyeser, Ty Buthod, James Walker, Clarke Anderson, Paul Reese, Anne Eldredge, Andy Williams, Guy Rollins, Chris Kohnhorst, Boyd Harrison, Steve Gilliland, Susan Zimmerman, Betty Bixby, Melinda Clark and Brian Lattimer!
Next trivia question next Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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