College Baseball This Week, June 8-14
Friday (June 12) – Sunday/Monday (June 21/22) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Saturday, August 1, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, July 27 - August 2
Monday-Saturday – Genuine Cup
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, July 27 - August 2
Until August 29 – Moody Center: Masako Miki: Shapeshifters, Sprites, and Spirits
Wednesday (11 am CT) – Baker Event: Statistical Review of World Energy
Wednesday (6 pm CT) – Build an Owl: A Virtual Rice Family Experience
Saturday (4 pm CT) – San Diego l New Student Social
Sunday (9 am - 1 pm – Rice Village Farmers Market
Shepherd School Events This Week, July 27 - August 2
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Rice Football:
Jackson Nominated for AFCA Good Works Team (Rice Owls)
Professional Baseball News
MLB/MiLB Scoreboarde Yesterday:
Trei Cruz (.225) singled for AAA Toledo.
Justin Long (2-3, 7.47) allowed 3 earned runs in .2 innings of relief for Hi-A Rome and Parker Smith (4-5, 6.47) was the losing pitcher for Hi-A Asheville.
Complete Owls stats are here.
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
Per the D1Baseball Transfer Tracker (subscriber content), 3B Cole Green is transferring from Rice to Wake Forest.
Other Sports News
Mitchell Meissner '18:
After round 3 yesterday, Mitchell Meissner was T27 at -12 at the Utah Championship in Ogden on the Korn Ferry Tour. Leaderboard here.
Other News
Hans Renata:
New method opens cheaper pathways to increased drug stability (Rice News)
Bill Sandel (1945-2026):
On July 4, Bill Sandel passed away. A native Texan, he earned his BS (’68), MS (’71) and PhD (‘72) in Physics from Rice (Wiess College). After a brief tour of duty in the Army, he enjoyed a career of over fifty years as a planetary physicist, mainly at the University of Arizona. Also, he was a dedicated photographer and he loved to go camping. He is survived by, among others, his wife of nearly forty-six years, Karen. Click here for the Arizona Daily Star obituary.
Rice Trivia
Guest Trivia Answer:
First, thanks to Bo Carter for the guest trivia question!
Kermit Beahan ‘40 attended Rice on a football scholarship and was the bombardier aboard the B-29 Superfortress who dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan on August 10, 1945. Read more. (Thanks, Russell Henderson, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)
Way to go, Betty Bixby, Ann Bixby, Russell Henderson, Andy Williams, Ted Richard, Charlie Vaughters, Art Gottschalk, Martha Proctor Gano, John Montana, Bob Toone, Matt Moake, Anne Eldredge, Arthur Rogers, Paul Reese, Clarke Anderson, Steve Gilliland, Boyd Harrison, Mike Ross, Chris Kohnhorst, Greg Williams, Kirwin Drouet, Guy Rollins, Steve Brown, Gloria Tarpley, James Walker, Susan Zimmerman, Melinda Clark and Brian Lattimer!
Next trivia question next Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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