October 28, 2022

Trivia Answer:
Former Owl baseball player Jimmy Comerota (aka Jimmy Baseball) is a member of the Houston Astros front office. He is a Director, Corporate Partnerships.  Today, the Astros and the Phillies begin the World Series at Minute Maid Park.

October 21, 2022

Trivia Answer:
After earning a BA degree with honors in Physics from Rice in May, 1957 and before starting graduate school at Caltech, Bob Wilson obtained his first patent doing a summer job with Exxon.  He shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics with Arno Penzias “for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation”.  Read more.

September 30, 2022

Trivia Answer:
First, Steve Lukingbeal also correctly answered Tuesday’s trivia question.

Dr JP Bramhall, who was a four-year baseball letterman for Texas A&M, is the father of Bobby Bramhall, who was an All-American pitcher for Rice (Thanks, Mike Ross!)

On Sunday, the Aggies host the Owls on the soccer pitch in College Station.

September 23, 2022

Guest Trivia Answer:
First, thanks to Walt Greenberg for the guest trivia question!

Two-time Joyce Pounds Hardy Award winner Debbie Turner Kochevar, who played volleyball and basketball and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Rice in 1978, was Dean of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts from 2006 until 2018. (Thanks, Mike Ross!)

September 22, 2022

Guest Trivia Question:
Name the member of the 1974 Rice Volleyball team who twice won the Joyce Pounds Hardy Award and became Dean of a School of Veterinary Medicine.  For a bonus point, name the School.  Email your answer(s) here