Rice Baseball This Week, June 9-15
Friday (June 13) – Monday (June 23) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, January 12-18
Wednesday (7 pm CT) – W Basketball vs. UAB TV: ESPN+
Wednesday (7 pm CT) – M Basketball at UTSA TV: ESPN+
Saturday-Sunday – M Tennis at UTR Series
Saturday (2 pm CT) – W Basketball at North Texas
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, January 12-18
Monday (12 pm CT) – Vanzant Lecture: Dr. Yifan Cheng
Monday (4:30 pm CT) – Baker Event: US Policy in the Middle East: Ted Deutch
Tuesday (4 pm CT) – Dept of Religion Lecture: Daniel Pratt-Morris Chapman
Wednesday (7 pm CT) – Rice Alumni January Virtual Book Club: Charlie English
Thursday (11 am CT) – ContinOWL Learning: Elizabeth Borelli
Thursday (5 pm CT) – NYC l Brains in a Bar with Dr Eric Doctor '10
Thursday (6 pm CT) – FOFL: Books that Shaped My World with Patricia Reiff
Thursday (6 pm CT) – 2025-26 Visint Artisit Lecture Series: Laura Owens
Friday (12 pm CT) – Hudspeth Lecture Series: Michael A Bailey
Friday (6 pm CT) – Chicago l Omar Syed
Saturday (9 pm CT) – Los Angeles l Holiday Party
Sunday (9 am - 1 pm CT) – Rice Village Farmers Market
Sunday (4 pm CT) – Bay Area l Holiday Party
Shepherd School Events This Week, January 5-11
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Armed Forces Bowl:
Bowl draws Rice crowd to Fort Worth (The Rice Thresher)
Professional Baseball News
Anthony Rendon:
Rendon's Angels tenure comes to end with restructured contract (source) (MLB.com)
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
Alumni Game Highlights Fan Fest '26 (Rice Owls)
Other Sports News
Rice Basketball:
Women Host UAB Today (Rice Owls)
Men Travel to In-State Foe UTSA (Rice Owls)
Mitchell Meissner '18:
When round 2 was completed yesterday, Mitchell Meissner was at -4 at The Bahamas Golf Classic at Atlantic ParadiseSSS Island on the Korn Ferry Tour and missed the cut. The official cut line was -7. Leaderboard here.
Other News
Baker Institute:
Insight from David Satterfield and Ted Deutch (Rice News)
Beyond the Hedges:
Hosted by former ARA President David Mansouri ’07, season four of Beyond the Hedges kicks off with two brand-new episodes here.
The Rice Thresher:
The Rice Thresher published yesterday. You can check it out here.
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
Coach Todd Graham was the first Rice head football coach to reach a bowl game in his initial season, taking the Owls to the New Orleans Bowl in 2006. “Then he left.”
Way to go, Bev Schorre (3), Bryant Wilkinson (3), Nancy Bailey (2), Tre Fischer (2), Andy Williams (3), Mary Jane Kinnebrew (2), Art Gottschalk (3), Paul Reese (3), Vicki Bretthauer (2), Mike Ross (3), John Montana (3), Bob Toone (3), Ann Bixby (3), Grungy (3), Anne Eldredge (3), Steve Gilliland (3), Randy Schaffer (2), Dan Hyde (3), Arthur Rogers (3), Russell Henderson (3), Josh Schaffer (3), Guy Rollins (3), Ty Buthod (3), Jeff Ross (3), Joe Quoyeser (2), David Gano (2), Ben Mayberry (3), Betty Bixby (3), Chris Kohnhorst (3), Bill Eiland, Martha Proctor Gano (3), Melinda Clark (3), James Walker (3), Richard Zansitis (3), Nancy Burch (3), Sallie Schwall (3), Ted Richard (3), Greg Williams (3), Walt Greenberg (2), Bob Reinhold (3), Larry Nettles (2), Kirwin Drouet (3), Jimmy Walts (3), David Ownby (3), Brian Lattimer! and Brian Ford (3)!
Final trivia leaderboards tomorrow.
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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Corrections, comments and updates welcome