Rice Baseball This Week, February 24 - March 2
Wednesday – Arizona 11, Rice 8 Box l Recap: Rice l AZ l Roost
Astros Foundation Classic, Daikin Park Preview l TV: Astros.com
Games are telecast on Comcast 639 in Houston (Thanks, Mark Boone!)
Friday (11:05 pm CT) – Mississippi State 14, Rice 3 Box l Recap: Rice l MS l Chron
Saturday (11:05 am CT) – vs. Tennessee Game Notes: Rice l TENN l LS l Radio
Probables: LHP Blaine Brown (0-0, 3.37) and RHP Marcus Phillips (0-0, 1.04)
Sunday (6:05 pm CT) – vs. Texas A&M Game Notes: Rice l TAM l LS l Radio
Probables: RHP R Fernandez (0-0, 0.90) and LHP M Patton (1-0, 0.75)
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Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, Feb 24 - Mar 2
Monday (11:30 am CT) – Rice Owls Basketball Show Listen
Tuesday (7 pm CT) – W Basketball vs. UAB Radio l TV: ESPN+
Wed (4:30 pm CT) – Owl Club Social, Little Woodrow’s Rice Village Registration
Wednesday (7 pm CT) – M Basketball at #14 Memphis Radio l TV: ESPN+
Thursday (4 pm CT) – M Tennis at #21 Pepperdine
Friday-Saturday – AAC W/M Track Championships, Birmingham
Friday- Saturday – Swimming at Texas A&M Last Chance Meet
Friday-Sunday – M Tennis at Pacific Coast Doubles Championship
Friday (1 pm CT) – W Tennis vs. UNLV
Friday (6 pm CT) – W Basketball at Temple Radio l TV: ESPN+
Sunday – Golf at Cabo Collegiate
Sunday (11 am CT) – W Tennis vs. LA Tech
Sunday (5 pm CT) – M Basketball at UTSA Radio l TV: ESPN+
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, February 3-9
Until May 10 – Moody Center: Breath(e)
Monday (12 pm CT) – BioSciences Vanzant Lecture Series: Brooke Johnson
Monday (5 pm CT) – Architecture Lecture: Ludwig Godefroy
Monday (5:30 pm CT) – Baker Event: A Dialogue Between Presidents
Monday (6:30 pm CT) – Campus Observatory Open House
Tuesday-Thursday – 2025 Energy HPC Conference
Tuesday (4 pm) – Scientia Lecture Series: Democracy
Tuesday (6 pm) – ARA Houston l Liquid Assets (Young Alumni)
Wednesday (4 pm) – Sawyer Seminar: Heidi Larson Lecture
Wednesday (4 pm) – Wellness Wednesday
Thursday (11 am) – ContinuOWL Learning
Thursday (12 pm) – New Book Series: Dr Crystal R Sanders
Thursday (12 pm) – Boniuk Institute: Reading Religion Salon
Thursday (1 pm) – History Dept: Dr Tatiana Seijas
Thursday (5:30 pm) – Baker Event: A Conversation with Peter Schwartzstein
Thursday (6 pm) – REA l Engineering the Science in Science Fiction Panel
Thursday (7 pm) – NYC l Texas Independence Day Social
Friday (12 pm) – Anthropology Brown Bag Talk with Lisa Messeri
Friday (5 pm) – Architecture Exhibition Opening: (dis)assemblies
Friday (7 pm) – The Strike presented by Rice Cinema
Friday (8 pm) – Theatre Production: "The Revolutionists"
Saturday (6 pm) – BSA Black Excellence Gala
Saturday (7 pm) – Last Things presented by Rice Cinema
Saturday (8 pm) – Moody Center Spring Fling 2025
Saturday (8 pm) – Theatre Production: "The Revolutionists"
Sunday (9 am - 1 pm) – Rice Village Farmers Market
Sunday (2 pm) – Theatre Production: "The Revolutionists"
Shepherd School Events This Week, February 10-16
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Rice Football:
Episode 196: Signing Day and Winter Recap (The Roost)
Professional Baseball News
Matt Canterino:
'I'm hoping this is the year' (The Athletic $)
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
Brown Earns John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Week Honors (Rice Owls)
Other Sports News
Rice Tennis:
No. 62 Men Drop Match to No. 23 Pepperdine (Rice Owls)
No. 59 Women Host UNLV, LA Tech (Rice Owls)
Rice W Basketball:
Rice Heads to Temple Tonight (Rice Owls)
Mitchell Meissner '18:
After round 1 yesterday, Mitchell Meissner was T29 at -3 at the Argentine Open in Buenos Aires on the Korn Ferry Tour. Leaderboard here.
Other News
Slyvia Dee:
Sylvia Dee battling climate-driven diseases through the Texas Virosphere Project (Rice News)
Texas-France Space Hub:
Hub aims to innovate space commerce and research (Rice News)
A Dialogue Between Presidents:
Innovation and the Future of US Research Universities (Rice News)
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
American author Kurt Vonnegut, who attended the University of Tennessee, delivered the Rice commencement address in 1998. Tomorrow, the Owls and the Vols play in the Astros Foundation Classic at Daikin Park. (Thanks, Mike Ross!)
Way to go, Bob Toone, Ann Bixby, Mary Jane Kinnebrew, Art Gottschalk, Andy Williams, Walt Greenberg, Russell Henderson, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, Scott Wise, Martha Proctor Gano, Lynda Crist, Paul Reese, Ann Eldredge, Jeff Ross, Mike Ross, Betty Bixby, Elizabeth Gillis, Guy Rollins, Kirwin Drouet, Chris Kohnhorst, Greg Williams, Sallie Schwall, Melinda Clark, Brian Lattimer and James Walker!
Next trivia question next Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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