College Baseball This Week, June 8-14
Friday (June 12) – Sunday/Monday (June 21/22) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, November 9-15
Monday-Friday – M Tennis at Houston PTT, GRBTC
Monday (4 pm CT) – M Basketball Pregame Social, Palo Alto
Monday (9 pm CT) – M Basketball at Stanford ACCNX
Wed (6 pm CT) – #4 Rice vs. #1 Memphis, American Soccer Semifinal ESPN+
Thursday (7 pm CT) – W Basketball vs. TSU
Friday (TBD) – South Central Region W/M XC Championships, College Station
Friday (6 pm CT) – Volleyball vs. Charlotte ESPN+
Saturday (1 pm CT) – Football vs. Tulane Radio l ESPN+ l Game Notes: Rice l TUL
Saturday (1 pm CT) – M Basketball at SFA Radio l ESPN+
Sunday (1 pm CT) – Volleyball at Tulane
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, November 9-15
Until December 19 – Moody Center: Radiant Geometries
Until November 13 – Sarofim Gallery: Off the Press/Off the Wall
Monday – Ken Kennedy Institute’s 40th Anniversary Celebration
Monday (12:30 pm CT) – SRUW l Seminar with John Diamond
Monday (5 pm CT) – Baker Event: US, Iran and the Gulf Conflict
Tuesday (10 am CT) – Kinder Institute: Economic Mobility in Houston
Tuesday (10 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: Vera Mila Gervais
Tuesday (4 pm CT) – Transnational Asia Speaker Series: Meredith Oda
Wednesday (11 am CT) – Rice Veterans Day Celebration
Wednesday (4 pm CT) – Play That Funky Music, Woodson
Wednesday (5 pm CT) – 2026 Post-Midterm Election Panel
Wednesday (7 pm CT) – Rice Alumni November Virtual Book Club: Kate Quinn
Thursday-Sunday – Rice Alumni Weekend Events
Thursday (3:30 am CT) – Singapore l Rice Community Night
Thursday (10:30 am CT) – Baker Event: Mexico Country Outlook 2027
Thursday (4 pm CT) – Transnational Asia Speaker Series: Nora Yitong Qiu
Friday (12 pm CT) – Rice Anthropology Brown Bag Talk with Travis Pickering
Saturday (1:30 am CT) – India l Bengaluru Brunch and Connect
Sunday (9 am - 1 pm CT) – Rice Village Farmers Market
Shepherd School Events This Week, November 9-15
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Owls in NFL:
Week 9 Roundup (The Roost)
Rice Football:
Tulane presser quotes and depth chart (The Roost)
Professional Baseball News
Playoff Baseball:
Last night, the Brewers defeated the Dodgers, 6-4, to sweep the best-of-seven NL Championship Series, 4-0. Danny Lehmann is the Bench Coach for the Dodgers.
College Baseball News
Coach David Pierce (Thanks, Teddy Herce!):
Last week, Coach David Pierce was inducted into the Wharton Junior College Athletic Hall of Fame. He played baseball at WCJC in 1982 and 1983. Read more.
Other Sports News
Rice Club Hockey:
Rice Club Hockey strives to grow program in second year (The Rice Thresher)
Other News
FED Dallas Event with DesRoches brothers:
Rice president and AT&T CFO discuss family, leadership, and future of AI (Rice News)
Campus Wide Book Swap:
Rice book swap gives books a second life (Rice News)
The Rice Thresher:
The Rice Thresher published yesterday. You can check it out here.
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
Tanner Gardner, who held key positions in the Rice Athletics Department from 2014 to 2024, was inducted into the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame in 2019. His sport was wrestling. On Monday night, Stanford M Basketball defeated Rice, 91-73, in Palo Alto.
Tanner left Rice to become Director of Athletics at Pepperdine. On Sunday, November 22, Rice W Basketball hosts Pepperdine at Tudor Fieldhouse. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst, Greg Mathews and Mike Ross!)
Way to go, Bev Schorre (2), Bryant Wilkinson (2), Ann Bixby (2), Bob Toone (2), Art Gottschalk (2), Arthur Rogers (2), Kirkwood Johnston (2), John Montana (2), Ted Richard (2), Mary Jane Kinnebrew (2), Dan Hyde (2), Clarke Anderson (2), Russell Henderson (2), Randy Schaffer (2), Robert Taylor (2), Steve Gilliland, Guy Rollins, Martha Proctor Gano (2), Cary Gray (2), Anne Eldredge (2), Paul Reese (2), Walt Grenberg (2), Steve Lukingbeal (2), Nancy Bailey, Betty Bixby (2), Chris Kohnhorst (2), Greg Mathews (2), Larry Nettles, Nancy Burch (2), Boyd Harrison (2), James Walker (2), Michelle Hicks (2), Susan Zimmerman (2), Richard Zansistis (2), Brian Lattimer (2), Melinda Clark (2), Mike Ross (2) and Josh Schaffer (2)!
This question concludes this year’s trivia contest. Next week, I will post the final results.
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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Corrections, comments and updates welcome

