College Baseball This Week, June 8-14
Friday (June 12) – Sunday/Monday (June 21/22) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Friday, August 28, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, August 24-30
Thursday (6 pm CT) – Soccer vs. No. 3 Vanderbilt ESPN+
Friday (6 pm CT) – Volleyball vs. South Alabama, Mobile AL ESPN+
Saturday-Monday – M Tennis at HotelPlanner UTR, GRBTC
Saturday (2 pm CT) – Volleyball vs. Georgia State, Mobile AL
Sunday (11 am CT) – Volleyball vs. Mississippi State, Mobile AL
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, August 24-30
Until August 29 – Moody Center: Masako Miki: Shapeshifters, Sprites, and Spirits
Monday – First Day of Classes
Tuesday (11 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: Tom Hardin
Wednesday (8 am CT) – Wednesday Wellness: Whoo's Ready to Walk?
Wednesday (6:30 pm CT) – Houston l Welcome to the NeighboorHOOT
Thursday (11 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: Colin Coggins and Garrett Brown
Thursday (4 pm CT) – Triple Crown Celebration
Thursday (8:30 pm CT) – Lunar Eclipse: Campus Observatory Open House and Talk
Saturday (11 am CT) – Washington DC l Good Hope Community Day
Sunday (4 pm CT) – Bay Area l Welcome to the NeighboorHOOT
Shepherd School Events This Week, August 24-30
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Rice Football:
Scott Abell reshapes the roster with 53 newcomers (Houston Chronicle)
Professional Baseball News
Owls in MLB:
Update: August 26 (The Roost)
MLB/MiLB Scoreboard Yesterday:
Trei Cruz (.235) went 2-for-4 with a homer, a walk , 2 runs and 3 RBI for AAA Toledo and Tristan Gray (.213) went 2-for-4 with a run for AAA St Paul.
Complete Owls stats are here.
College Baseball News
Blaine Brown:
Blaine Brown undergoes elbow surgery (GoVOLS247)
Other Sports News
Rice Athletics:
Rice Athletics kicks off 2026-27 season with Fan Fest (Rice News)
Rice Soccer:
Owls Fall Short to No. 3 Vanderbilt (Rice Owls)
Rice Volleyball:
Owls Open 2026 Season at Jaguar Classic (Rice Owls)
Other News
Marc Coutanche:
How we remember may change our memories, study finds (Rice News)
Annette Bassett (1936-2026):
On August 10, Annette Bassett passed away. A native Texan, she earned a BA (’58) and a MA (’60) in English from Rice where she was a top ten senior in 1958, a Phi Beta Kappa member and inaugural Jones College president. In 1974, she earned a Master of Library Science from Long Island University and enjoyed a twenty-four year career in the Suffolk NY Cooperative Library System. Also, she loved to travel and to enjoy opera performances. She is predeceased by, among others, her husband Charles (they were married for thirty-seven years). Click here for the obituary.
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
Mississippi State alum John Grisham is the author of more than fifty consecutive #1 bestsellers. On Sunday, Owls volleyball plays the Bulldogs at the Jaguar Classic in Mobile AL.
Way to go, Ann Bixby, Bob Toone, Betty Bixby, Anne Eldredge, Mary Jane Kinnebrew, Art Gottschalk, Martha Proctor Gano, Steve Gilliland, John Montana, Randy Schaffer, Andy Williams, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, Nancy Bailey, Clarke Anderson, Lynda Crist, Arthur Rogers, Walt Greenberg, Dan Hyde, Paul Reese, Jimmy Disch, Susan Zimmerman, Boyd Harrison, Bill Eiland, Chris Kohnhorst, James Walker, Kirwin Drouet, Vicki Bretthauer, Greg Mathews, Nancy Burch, Horst Paul, Greg Williams, Melinda Clark, Frank Jones, Mike Ross, Guy Rollins, Ted Richard, Richard Zansitis, Brian Lattimer, Russell Henderson, Larry Nettles and Gloria Tarpley!
Trivia Leaderboard tomorrow and next trivia question next Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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