Rice Baseball This Week, June 9-15
Friday (June 13) – Monday (June 23) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, September 15-21
Thursday (6 pm CT) – Volleyball vs. Texas A&M-CC TV: ESPN+
Thursday (6 pm CT) – #25 Soccer vs. Florida Atlantic TV: ESPN+
Thur (6:30 pm CT) – Football at CLT Radio l TV: ESPN+ l Game Notes: Rice l CLT
Friday-Sunday – M Golf at William H. Tucker Intercollegiate, Albuquerque
Friday-Sunday – W Tennis at Rice Invitational
Friday (6:30 pm CT) – Volleyball vs. Cornell TV: ESPN+
Sat-Sunday – W Tennis at ITA Women’s All-American Championships, Cary NC
Saturday (4 pm CT) – Volleyball vs. #9 TCU TV: ESPN+
Sunday – M Tennis at ITA Men’s All-American Championships, Tulsa
Sunday (12 pm CT) – #25 Soccer vs. Grambling State
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, September 15-21
Until December 20 – Moody Center: Bio Morphe
Monday (5:30 pm CT) – Sounds of Switzerland with Dominic Oppliger
Monday (6 pm CT) – Engineers in the C-Suite: Dr Mark Lashier
Monday (6 pm CT) – Rice Architecture Lecture: Michael Meredith
Monday (7 pm CT) – Rice Night at the Astros
Tuesday – Water Nexus Conference 2025
Tuesday (11 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: Getting Unstuck
Tuesday (4:30 pm CT) – Baker Event: Sir Conor Burns
Tue (5:30 pm CT) – Cooking Class: The Perfect Burger Bar and AD McClelland
Wednesday (6 pm CT) – Rice Business: Fall 2025 Houston Impact Series
Wednesday (6:30 pm CT) – FOFL Annual Membership Celebration and Dinner
Thu (4:30 pm CT) – Burnet Wohlford: The Constitution Beyond the Supreme Court
Thursday (5 pm CT) – Baker Event: Ambassador Dennis Ross
Friday (12 pm CT) – Rice Anthropology Brown Bag Talk with Quinn Georgic
Friday (5 pm CT) – Opening Reception for Off the Wall: Yifan Jiang
Saturday (7:30 pm CT) – Houston l Noche Latina with Houston Dynamo
Sunday (9 am - 1 pm CT) – Rice Village Farmers Market
Shepherd School Events This Week, September 15-21
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
College Football:
Week 4 Misery Index (Yahoo Sports)
Professional Baseball News
MLB/MiLB Scoreboard Yesterday:
Complete Owls stats are here.
College Baseball News
Tommy Gray:
On Wednesday, Fanatics, a global digital sports platform and leading provider of licensed sports merchandise, announced the appointment of Tommy Gray as Senior Vice President of its College division. Tommy is the brother of Will Gray who, in 2010, participated in fall ball at Rice before transferring to Baylor before spring semester. Read more.
Other Sports News
Rice Volleyball:
Rice Falls to No. 9 TCU (Rice Owls)
William H Tucker Intercollegiate:
Men's Golf Closes Play (Rice Owls)
Rice W Tennis:
Two Owls Advance to Singles Flight Finals (Rice Owls)
Rice M Tennis:
Three Owls Post First Round Wins (Rice Owls)
Rice Soccer:
No. 25 Rice Hosts Grambling State for Non-conference finale (Rice Owls)
Mitchell Meissner '18:
After round 3 yesterday, Mitchell Meissner was T27 at -4 at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship in Columbus OH on the Korn Ferry Tour. Leaderboard here.
Other News
Sam Law 1947-2025):
On August 30, Sam Law passed away. A native Texan, he graduated from Rice in 1970 and earned a MD from Baylor College of Medicine. He enjoyed a practice as an obstetrician-gynecologist at Methodist and Texas Children’s in Houston. Also, he was very active at his church. “As a gifted physician, a proud grandfather, a father, and a husband, he had a true servant’s heart”. He is predeceased by, among others, his wife Lydia in 2024 (they were married in 1973). Click here for the obituary.
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
In 2014, Brandon Finnegan became the first player to play in a College World Series (for TCU) and a MLB World Series (for the Royals). Tomorrow, the Owls volleyball team hosts the Horned Frogs (including Coach Volpe’s daughter Alice) at Tudor Fieldhouse. (Thanks, Steve Gilliland, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)
Way to go, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, James Walker, Bob Toone, Betty Bixby, Art Gottschalk, John Montana, Ann Bixby, Anne Eldredge, Ted Richard, Jeff Ross, Guy Rollins, Andy Williams, Arthur Rogers, Greg Williams, Paul Reese, Chris Kohnhorst, Steve Gilliliand, Larry Nettles, Richard Zansitis, Boyd Harrison, Steve Brown, Mike Ross, Susan Zimmerman, David Ownby, Melinda Clark, Brian Lattimer and Sallie Schwall!
Next trivia question next Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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