RICE UPDATE
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, January 20-26
Monday (11:30 am CT) – Rice Owls Basketball Show Listen
Wednesday (6 pm CT) – W Basketball at UAB Radio l TV: ESPN+
Thursday (1 pm CT) – W Tennis vs. Lamar
Thursday (6 pm CT) – Owl Club Social, Second Draught (The Ion) Register
Friday (4 pm CT) – Swimming vs. St. Thomas
Saturday – W/M Track at FasTrak Invite, Houston
Saturday (1 pm CT) – M Tennis at No. 1 UT
Saturday (1:30 pm CT) – M Basketball vs. Tulane Radio l TV: ESPNU
Saturday (2 pm CT) – W Basketball at Charlotte Radio l TV: ESPN+
Sunday – M Tennis at ITA Kickoff Weekend, Austin
Sunday (2 pm CT) – W Tennis vs. UIW
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, January 20-26
Monday – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Wednesday (11 am) – ContinuOWL Learning
Wednesday (5 pm) – Architecture Lecture: Javier Agustin Rojas
Wednesday (5:30 pm) – Rice Business: Owl Have You Know Podcast
Thursday (12 pm) – Trinidad and Tobago: Ryan Cecil Jobson
Thursday (12 pm) – Boniuk Institute: "Religion in a Changing Workplace"
Thursday (2 pm) – Baker Event: Multi-Issue Briefing, Austin
Thursday (4 pm) – Sawyer Seminar: Susannah Fox Lecture
Friday (6 pm) – Houston l ARA Holiday Party
Friday (6 pm) – Moody Center: Opening Reception for Breath(e)
Friday (7 pm) – 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival – Part 1
Saturday-May 10 – Moody Center: Breath(e)
Saturday (7 pm) – 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival – Part 2
Shepherd School Events This Week, January 20-26
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Owls in NFL Playoffs:
Divisional Round Roundup (The Roost)
Professional Baseball News
Player Moves:
Yesterday, the Pirates designated Tristan Gray for assignment.
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
ESPN Platforms to Broadcast Puerto Rico Challenge (EINPresswire)
Other Sports News
Mitchell Meissner '18:
When round 2 play was suspended yesterday due to darkness, Mitchell Meissner was T21 at -7 through 16 holes at The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic on the Korn Ferry Tour. Leaderboard here.
Other News
Rice in Country:
Program transforms student lives (Rice News)
Henry Winkleman (1941-2024):
Healthcare Architect, Who Shaped Modern Hospitals, Dies at 83 (HOK)
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
Former heavyweight world boxing champion George Foreman, the great uncle of 2024 Rice football early signee Michael Amey III, and former Rice president Malcolm Gillis were scheduled to fight in a charity boxing match. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)
Way to go, Ann Bixby (2), Anne Eldredge (2), Arthur Rogers (2), Tre Fischer (2), Andy Williams (2), Bev Schorre (2), Bryant Wilkinson (2), Russell Henderson, Art Gottschalk (2), Bill Allison (2), Martha Proctor Gano (2), Bob Toone (2), Jeff Ross (2), Mary Jane Kinnebrew, Matt Moake (2), Paul Reese (2), James Walker (2), Brian Lattimer (2), Betty Bixby (2), David Ownby (2), Greg Williams (2), Ben Mayberry, Chris Kohnhorst (2), Bob Reinhold (2), Richard Zansitis (2), Frank Jones, Melinda Clark (2), Scott Wise (2), Kirwin Drouet (2), Sallie Schwall (2), Elizabeth Gillis, Mike Ross (2) and Ted Richard (2)!
Final 2024 trivia leaderboards tomorrow.
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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