College Baseball This Week, June 8-14
Friday (June 12) – Sunday/Monday (June 21/22) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Sunday, September 13, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, September 14-20
Mon-Wed – M Golf at M Golf at Jackson T. Stephens Cup, Frisco TX Golf Channel
Thursday (6:30 pm CT) – Volleyball at SMU
Thursday (7 pm CT) – Soccer at #23 Memphis ESPN+
Friday-Sunday – W Golf at Lady Paladin Invitational, Greenville SC
Friday (6:30 pm CT) – Volleyball at #11 TCU
Sat-Sun – W Tennis at ITA Women’s All-American Championships, Cary NC
Sat-Sun – M Tennis at ITA Women’s All-American Championships, Tulsa OK
Sat (6 pm CT) – Football vs. Western Michigan Radio l ESPN+ l GN: Rice l WM
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, September 14-20
Until December 19 – Moody Center: Radiant Geometries
Monday (10 am) – Baker Event: Voting Issues Facing the 2026 Midterm Elections
Monday (12 pm) – Vanzant Lecture Series: Dr Sven Kranz
Monday (12:30 pm) – SRUW l Seminar with Vivian Ho
Monday (7 pm) – Learning to Code Using AI with Joe Warren
Tuesday-Thursday – AI in Health Conference
Tuesday (5:30 pm CT) – Baker Event: The State of US Financial Markets
Tuesday (6 pm CT) – Austin l A Reception wiht President Reginald DesRoches
Tuesday (6:30 pm CT) – FoFL Annual Membership Celebration and Dinner
Wednesday (12 pm CT) – CAAAS Speaker Series: Dr Robin Derby
Wednesday (12 pm CT) – Using AI Effectively with Tawfik Jarjour ‘12
Wednesday (4 pm CT) – Play That Funky Music, Woodson
Wednesday (6 pm CT) – Houston l Andy DiRaddo and Art Gottschalk
Thursday – Water Nexus Conference 2026
Thursday (1 pm CT) – History in the Dungeon: Andrew Apter
Thursday (4 pm CT) – Ann Johnson, “Soul II Sole”
Friday (9 am CT) – Baker Event: Synthetic Biology
Fri (12 pm CT) – Rice Anthropology Brown Bag Talk: Frances Roberts-Gregory
Sunday (9 am - 1 pm CT) – Rice Village Farmers Market
Sunday (5 pm CT) – LA l Portland Fire vs LA Sparks Pregame Social and Game
Shepherd School Events This Week, September 14-20
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Notre Dame 52, Rice 0:
Turnovers Doom Rice (Rice Owls)
Irish Bowl Over Rice (Notre Dame Athletics)
No mercy for Rice (The Rice Thresher)
Owls Overpowered by Notre Dame (The Roost)
Rice falls in a big hole early (Houston Chronicle)
College Football:
Week 2 Misery Index (Yahoo Sports)
Professional Baseball News
MLB/MiLB Scoreboard Yesterday:
Dane Myers (.270) singled and scored for the Reds. Trei Cruz (.257) went 2-for-5 with a double, 2 RBI and a walk for AAA Toledo and Tristan Gray (.231) pinch-walked for St Paul.
Complete Owls stats are here.
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
Pierce Adds 11 to Roster (Rice Owls)
Other Sports News
RIce Volleyball:
Owls Fall in Tight Battle with UNI (Rice Owls)
Mitchell Meissner '18:
After round 3 yesterday, Mitchell Meissner is T68 at -5 at the Simmons Bank Open in Franklin, TN on the Korn Ferry Tour. Leaderboard here.
Other News
Peter Brown (1942-2026):
On September 8, Peter Brown (’65, Will Rice) passed away. He wrote his own obituary here.
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
Rice football Assistant Offensive Line coach Clay Davie is the son of former Notre Dame football Head Coach Bob Davie (1997-2001). Tomorrow afternoon, the #3 Irish football team hosts the Owls in South Bend.
Way to go, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, Arthur Gottschalk, Mike Ross, Ann Bixby, Ty Buthod, Andy Williams, Ted Richard, Anne Eldredge, Martha Proctor Gano, John Montana, Bob Toone, Arthur Rogers, Clarke Anderson, Kirkwood Johnston, Sallie Schwall, Paul Reese, Brian Lattimer, Betty Bixby, Susan Zimmerman, Boyd Harrison, James Walker, Guy Rollins, Chris Kohnhorst, Melinda Clark, Steve Brown and Dan Hyde!
Next trivia question next Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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Corrections, comments and updates welcome