Rice Baseball This Week, June 9-15
Friday (June 13) – Monday (June 23) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Sunday, January 4, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, January 5-11
Wednesday (6:30 pm CT) – M Basketball at Wichita State TV: ESPN+
Wednesday (7 pm CT) – W Basketball vs. Charlotte TV: ESPN+
Saturday – M Tennis vs. Arkansas, Edinburg
Saturday (11 am CT) – Swimming at Double Up Meet
Sunday – M Tennis vs. UTRGV, Edinburg
Sunday (1 pm CT) – M Basketball vs. Charlotte TV: ESPN+
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, January 5-11
Wednesday (6 pm CT) – Recent Alumni Run Club, Valhalla
Thursday (11 am CT) – ContinOWL Learning
Saturday (6 pm CT) – Austin l Holiday Party
Saturday (8 pm CT) – Seattle l Holiday Party
Shepherd School Events This Week, January 5-11
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Armed Forces Bowl:
Rice Falls to Texas State (Rice Owls)
Bobcats Defeat Rice (Texas State Athletics/AP)
Rice Falls to Texas State (The Roost)
Rice Owls Fall to Texas State (Houston Chronicle)
Rice provides update after Daveon Hook carted off (Houston Chronicle)
Parachuter crash lands before the game (Houston Chronicle)
Transfer Portal:
The transfer portal opened yesterday. Click here for an unofficial list of Rice football players in the transfer portal.
Professional Baseball News
Anthony Rendon:
Rendon's Angels tenure comes to end with restructured contract (source) (MLB.com)
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
The American Conference Baseball Preseason Poll, as voted on by the league’s head coaches, was released yesterday. Rice was picked to finish seventh. Read more.
Other Sports News
Rice W Basketball:
Hot Shooting Fuels Rice Past Florida Atlantic (Rice Owls)
Rice Outlasts Florida Atlantic (The Roost)
Rice M Basketball:
Rice Drops Hard Fought Battle to Memphis (Rice Owls)
Rice Comes Up Short Against Memphis (The Roost)
Other News
Nicholas Keith (1946-2025):
On December 6, Nicholas Keith passed away. Born in Pennsylvania, he earned a BA in Economics in 1970 and a MS in Mathematics in 1975 from Texas Southern where his uncle headed the Economics Department. Also, he earned a Masters degree from Rice in 1980. He was a math instructor at Montgomery College in Maryland. He is predeceased by, among others, his wife Patricia. Click here for the obituary.
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
Coach Todd Graham was the first Rice head football coach to reach a bowl game in his initial season, taking the Owls to the New Orleans Bowl in 2006. “Then he left.”
Way to go, Bev Schorre (3), Bryant Wilkinson (3), Nancy Bailey (2), Tre Fischer (2), Andy Williams (3), Mary Jane Kinnebrew (2), Art Gottschalk (3), Paul Reese (3), Vicki Bretthauer (2), Mike Ross (3), John Montana (3), Bob Toone (3), Ann Bixby (3), Grungy (3), Anne Eldredge (3), Steve Gilliland (3), Randy Schaffer (2), Dan Hyde (3), Arthur Rogers (3), Russell Henderson (3), Josh Schaffer (3), Guy Rollins (3), Ty Buthod (3), Jeff Ross (3), Joe Quoyeser (2), David Gano (2), Ben Mayberry (3), Betty Bixby (3), Chris Kohnhorst (3), Bill Eiland, Martha Proctor Gano (3), Melinda Clark (3), James Walker (3), Richard Zansitis (3), Nancy Burch (3), Sallie Schwall (3), Ted Richard (3), Greg Williams (3), Walt Greenberg (2), Bob Reinhold (3), Larry Nettles (2), Kirwin Drouet (3), Jimmy Walts (3), David Ownby (3), Brian Lattimer! and Brian Ford (3)!
Final trivia leaderboards tomorrow.
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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Corrections, comments and updates welcome