College Baseball This Week, June 8-14
Friday (June 12) – Sunday/Monday (June 21/22) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Friday, October 16, 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
Rice Football:
Tulsa Game Week Practice Notes (The Roost)
Tulsa Set for Saturday Conference Clash at Rice (Tulsa Athletics)
Professional Baseball News
Playoff Baseball:
Last night, the Brewers defeated the Dodgers, 6-4, to sweep the best-of-seven NL Championship Series, 4-0. 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
Rice Soccer:
Owls Draw North Texas on Senior Night (Rice Owls)
Rice M Tennis:
Owls to Host 68th Rice Invitational (Rice Owls)
Rice Volleyball:
Owls Hit the Road to Face Tulsa, Wichita State (RIce Owls)
Arturo Barrios Invitational:
Preview: Women l Men (Rice Owls)
Other News
Yonglong Xie:
Rice physics professor earns Packard Fellowship (Rice News)
PodCAT:
PodCAT puts science on mic (Rice News)
Kenneth Hugh Jones (1935-2026):
On September 20, Kenneth Hugh Jones passed away. A native Texan, he earned a BA (’57) and a BS (’58) in Civil Engineering from Rice and a Bachelor of Laws from UT (’61). He was a founding partner of Decker, Jones, McMackin, McClane, Hall & Bates in Fort Worth. Also, he was active in the community and in his church. He “was known for his quick wit, wonderful sense of humor and genuine love of people”. He is survived by, among others, his wife of fifty-seven years Ann. Click here for the obituary.
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
The late Ralph O’Connor was born in Pasadena, California in 1926, graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1951 where he was a member of the football and basketball teams during his freshman and sophomore years and received an Association of Rice Alumni Gold Medal in 1987. He passed away on December 30, 2018. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst!)
This weekend, Rice Men’s Tennis is set to host the Ralph O’Connor Tennis Invitational at the George R Brown Tennis Center.
Ralph O’Connor, 1926-2018 (Melissa Kean January 2, 2019)
Rice trustee emeritus Ralph O’Connor dies at 92 (Rice News January 3, 2019)
A ‘quintessential Blue Jay’ dies at 92 (Johns Hopkins News January 3, 2019)
Way to go, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, Mike Ross, Bob Toone, Kathleen Boyd, Ann Bixby, Kirkwood Johnston, Art Gottschalk, Guy Rollins, Dan Hyde, James Walker, Scott Wise, Steve Lukingbeal, John Montana, Elizabeth Gillis, Arthur Rogers, Anne Eldredge, Martha Proctor Gano, Susan Zimmerman, Clarke Anderson, Chris Kohnhorst, Charles Maynard, Betty Bixby, Boyd Harrison, Melinda Clark, Paul Reese, Richard Zansitis , Tommy LaVergne and Steve Brown!
Next trivia question next Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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