Rice Baseball This Week, May 18-24
Wednesday-Sunday – American Baseball Championship, Clearwater
Thursday (12 pm CT) – #3 Rice vs. TBD
Probables: TBA and TBA
RICE UPDATE
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, May 18-24
Monday-Wednesday – M Golf at NCAA Athens Regional
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, May 18-24
Wednesday (5:30 pm CT) – Baker Event: Venezuela, Iran, and the Middle East
Wednesday (6 pm CT) – Hong Kong l Reception with Rice VP Stephen Bayer
Wednesday (6:30 pm CT) – Brains in a Bar with Bianca Mabute-Louie
Thursday (9 am CT) – Baker Event: What FEMA’s new maps mean for Houston
Thursday (10 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: Liz Tran
Shepherd School Events This Week, May 18-24
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Chris Boswell:
Boswell Signs Record Extension (ESPN)
Professional Baseball News
MLB/MiLB Scoreboard Yesterday:
Dane Myers (.235) hit a sacrifice fly for the Reds.
Complete Owls stats are here.
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
Five Owls Earn American Conference Honors (Rice Owls)
5 Owls Named to All-Conference Teams (The Roost)
Other Sports News
Rice Volleyball:
Owls Announce Caitlin Nolan-Ayeni as Associate Head Coach (Rice Owls)
Other News
FIFA World Cup:
Houston plants roots for FIFA World Cup in Ion District (Rice News)
William Cross (1934-2026):
On May 5, Bill Cross passed away. Born in Virginia, he graduated from Rice in 1956. He retired after a thirty-eight year career with the USA Corps of Engineers as Chief Architect for construction of the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston and Division Architect in Honolulu, San Francisco and Dallas. He is survived by, among others, his wife of sixty-five years, Jane as well as ten grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Click here the obituary.
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
Rice head coach Jim Bevan has been part of conference championships in the Southwest Conference, WAC, C-USA and American Conference. Read more. (Thanks, Mike Ross!)
Way to go, Steve Lukingbeal, Mary Jane Kinnebrew, Betty Bixby, Bob Toone, Andy Williams, Arthur Rogers, Ted Richard, Steve Gilliland, Clarke Anderson, Susan Zimmerman, Jimmy Walts, Anne Eldredge, Nancy Bailey, Russell Henderson, Greg Williams, Walt Greenberg, Elizabeth Gillis, Guy Rollins, Paul Reese, Kirkwood Johnston, Ben Mayberry, Bob Reinhold, David Gano, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, Melinda Clark, James Walker, Mike Ross and Ann Bixby!
Next trivia question tomorrow!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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