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Friday (June 12) – Sunday/Monday (June 21/22) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Friday, October 9, 2026
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, October 5 - 11
Monday – Rice Baseball Golf Tournament
Monday – W Golf at Blessing Collegiate Invitational, Fayetteville AR
Monday – M Golf at Trinity Forest Invitational, Dallas
Thu-Sun – M Tennis at ITA Texas Men’s Regional Championships, Fort Worth
Thu-Sun – W Tennis at ITA Texas Men’s Regional Championships, Waco
Thursday (6 pm CT) – Soccer vs. UAB ESPN+
Friday-Saturday – Swimming at Rice Fall Splash
Friday (6 pm CT) – Volleyball vs. Wichita State ESPN+
Friday (6 pm CT) – Baseball at Texas A&M EXH
Sat (12 pm CT) – Football at ECU Radio l ESPN+ l Game Notes: Rice l ECU
Sunday (11 am CT) – Soccer at ECU ESPN+
Sunday (1 pm CT) – Volleyball vs. Memphis ESPN+
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week October 5 - 11
Until December 19 – Moody Center: Radiant Geometries
Until October 3 – Sarofim Gallery: Off the Press/Off the Wall
Monday (12 pm) – Vanzant Lecture Series: Dr Steward Pickett
Monday (12:30 pm) – SRUW l Seminar with Miguel Harth-Bedoya
Monday (6 pm) – Sewall Hall: Dr Pinn interviews Jahi
Tuesday-Thursday – Baker Event: Annual Energy Summit
Tue (5:30 am) – Kyle Morrow Room: Book Signing with Dr LeFlouria and Dr Jou
Wednesday (12 pm CT) – Texas-Latin America Social Science Research Forum
Wednesday (4 pm CT) – Play That Funky Music, Woodson
Thursday (4 pm) – ContinuOWL Learning: Michelle Lederman
Thursday (4:30 pm) – Book Event: Historian John Garrison Marks
Saturday – Hoots and Hobbies: Sammy Clay Trinket Dish with Amy Lin ‘11
Saturday-Sunday – Houston Cinema Arts Festival; Sarofim Hall
Sat (9:30 am) – RCEL presents: SWE + SHPE Conference Prep Workshop
Shepherd School Events This Week, October 5 - 11
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Owls in NFL:
Week 4 Roundup (The Roost)
UTSA 16, Rice 14:
New stadium, same result (The Rice Thresher)
Rice Football:
ECU presser quotes and depth chart (The Roost)
Professional Baseball News
Brock Holt:
Eight years ago yesterday, Brock Holt became the first and only player in MLB postseason history to hit for the cycle. Read more.
Playoff Baseball:
Yesterday, the Guardians defeated the White Sox, 9-5, to tie the best-of-five AL Division Series, 2-2. Decisive Game 5 is set for tomorrow. Paul Janish is the Director of Player Development for the White Sox.
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
Reckling's Roost Upgraded to Club 37 (Rice Owls)
Other Sports News
Rice Soccer:
Owls Fall to UAB (Rice Owls)
ITA Texas Regional:
Day One Recap: Women l Men (Rice Owls)
Rice Volleyball:
Owls Set for Pair of Conference Matches at Tudor (Rice Owls)
Rice Swimming:
Owls Open 2026-27 Season with Rice Fall Splash (Rice Owls)
Mitchell Meissner '18:
After round 1 yesterday, Mitchell Meissner is T52 at +2 at the Korn Ferry Tour Championship in Glen Allen, VA on the Korn Ferry Tour. Leaderboard here.
Other News
Rice LIVED:
Rice LIVED puts university culture, values into action (Rice News)
Rice Business Wisdom:
Magazine marks 10 years of bringing faculty research to wider audience (Rice News)
Anna-Karin Gustavsson:
Improved precision microscopy method developed by Rice professor (Rice News)
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
One-time Austin resident Sanda Bullock, who graduated from East Carolina in 1987, won an Academy Award in 2010 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for The Blind Side. Tomorrow, Pirates football hosts the Owls at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium in Greenville NC. (Way to go, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)
Way to go, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, Ann Bixby, Bob Toone, Art Gottschalk, Kirkwood Johnson, Ted Richard, Mike Ross, Martha Proctor Gano, John Montana, Arthur Rogers, Joe Quoyeser, Ty Buthod, James Walker, Clarke Anderson, Paul Reese, Anne Eldredge, Andy Williams, Guy Rollins, Chris Kohnhorst, Boyd Harrison, Steve Gilliland, Susan Zimmerman, Betty Bixby, Melinda Clark and Brian Lattimer!
Next trivia question next Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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Corrections, comments and updates welcome