College Baseball This Week, June 8-14
Friday (June 12) – Sunday/Monday (June 21/22) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Monday, July 20, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, July 20 - 26
No events
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, July 20 - 26
Until August 29 – Moody Center: Masako Miki: Shapeshifters, Sprites, and Spirits
Monday (12 pm CT) – Control What You Can: Career Strategy Panel
Monday (1 pm CT) – Traveling Owls l Travel Insurance Webinar
Saturday (2 pm CT) – Santa Fe l Rice Alumni and Community Reception
Sunday (7:30 pm CT) – Denver l Colorado Shakespeare's Festival "Twelfth Night"
Shepherd School Events This Week, July 20 - 26
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Florida State Football:
Florida State is hiring Tom Herman as an assistant to head football coach Mike Norvell. He was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for Rice football from 2007 to 2008.
Professional Baseball News
MLB/MiLB Scoreboard Yesterday:
Dane Myers (.260) singled, doubled, walked twice and scored for the Reds. Trei Cruz (.202) singled and scored for AAA Toledo.
Justin Long (2-3, 7.22) pitched a scoreless 1.1 innings in relief for Hi-A Rome.
Complete Owls stats are here.
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
Per the D1Baseball Transfer Tracker (subscriber content), RF Mason Ashlock is transferring from Rice to Incarnate Word.
Other Sports News
Washington W Basketball:
Last month, Tasha Brown, previously an assistant coach at UCLA (where she won the national championship last season), joined Head Coach Tina Langley at the University of Washington as an Associate Coach specializing in Peak Performance. She spent the 2017-18 season as an assistant coach at Rice on Head Coach Tina Langley’s staff. Read more.
Other News
Jing Zhou:
The secret to continuous creativity with gen AI (Rice News)
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
Andy Pettitte, the father of former Rice pitcher Josh Pettitte, was a three-time MLB All-Star (1996, 2001 and 2010). (Thanks, Mike Ross!)
Way to go, Mike Ross, Tania Min, Kirkwood Johnston, Ted Richard, Steve Lukingbeal, Anne Eldredge, Roger Parthasarathy, James Walker, Randy Schaffer, Guy Jackson, Jill Clausen, Mary Jane Kinnebrew, Nancy Bailey, Paul Reese, Ty Buthod, Art Gottschalk, Walt Greenberg, Tom Stallings, Ann Bixby, Scott Wise, Clarke Anderson, Joe Quoyeser, David Gano, George Wagner, Betty Bixby, Kyle Wendel, Dawn Herrington, Russell Henderson, Brian Lattimer, Ben Mayberry, Melinda Clark, Guy Rollins and John Montana!
Next trivia question next Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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Corrections, comments and updates welcome