College Baseball This Week, June 8-14
Friday (June 12) – Sunday/Monday (June 21/22) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Thursday, September 10, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, September 7-13
Thursday (6 pm CT) – Soccer vs. UL-Monroe ESPN+
Friday-Sunday – M Tennis at Midland Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational
Friday – WXC/MXC at Rice Invitational
Friday (6 pm CT) – Volleyball vs. #5 Louisville ESPN+
Sat (2:30 pm CT) – Football vs. #3 Notre Dame Radio l ESPN+ l GN: Rice l ND
Saturday (4 pm CT) – Volleyball vs. UNI ESPN+
Sunday (12 pm CT) – Soccer at South Alabama
Sunday (2:30 pm CT) – Volleyball vs. #15 Creighton ESPN+
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, September 7-13
Until December 19 – Moody Center: Radiant Geometries
Tuesday (2:30 pm) – Moody Center: Natalia Montoya Lecaros
Wednesday (8:20 am CT) – Baker Event: The Age of Depopulation
Wednesday (12 pm CT) – CAAAS Speaker Series: Dr Bianca Murillo
Wednesday (12 pm CT) – Revisiting the Task Force l Mellon Sawyer Seminar
Wednesday (4 pm CT) – Play That Funky Music, Woodson
Wednesday (7 pm CT) – Rice Alumni September Virtual Book Club: Colin Cotterill
Thursday (1 pm CT) – Transnational Asia Speaker Series: Marta E Hanson
Thursday (6 pm CT) – Books that Shaped My World with Anne Chao ’05 Sold Out
Thursday (6 pm CT) – SCOPE Science Café: Volcanologist Dr Julia Morgan
Thursday (6:30 pm CT) – Brains in a Bar: Susannah Wright ’18 and Scott McGill
Friday (4:30 pm CT) – Baker Event: A Conversation with Dr Robert George
Friday (6 pm CT) – Chicago l A Reception with President Reginald DesRoches
Sunday (9 am CT) – Houston l Bills vs Texans Field Experience and Game
Sunday (10 am CT) – Washington DC l Welcome to the NeighborHOOT
Sunday (9 am CT) – Denver l Welcome to the NeighborHOOT
Shepherd School Events This Week, September 7-13
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Rice Football:
Rice vs. Notre Dame Preview (SBNation)
#3 Notre Dame will be short two starters (Houston Chronicle)
Professional Baseball News
MLB/MiLB Scoreboard Yesterday:
Trei Cruz (.253) singled, doubled and walked for AAA Toledo.
Complete Owls stats are here.
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
Pierce Adds 11 to Roster (Rice Owls)
Other Sports News
Rice Soccer:
Owls Return Home for UL-Monroe Tonight (Rice Owls)
Rice M Golf:
Owls hunt down national championship berth (The Rice Thresher)
Mitchell Meissner '18:
Today, Mitchell Meissner is set to begin play at the Simmons Bank Open in Franklin, TN on the Korn Ferry Tour. Leaderboard here.
Other News
School of Humanities and Arts:
Canning built Humanities at Rice by listening first (Rice News)
Trill Burgers on Rice Campus:
Social media buzzing (Rice News)
Houston Rap Legend Returns to Rice with Trill Burgers (The Rice Thresher)
Will Rice College:
Will Rice’s Old Dorm floods after student misconduct, loses power (Thresher)
Will Rice to face major internal changes as leadership shifts (The Rice Thresher)
Rice Trivia
Trivia Question:
First, Walt Greenberg also correctly answered Tuesday's trivia question.
Name the present member of the Rice football coaching staff whose father was a former Notre Dame football head coach. Email your answer here.
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
A condensed version of the Update is available by email
Corrections, comments and updates welcome