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(11/06/09 12:00am)
Conference USA has recently been the whipping boy of the University of Memphis, champions and national powerhouses for the last four seasons. But with the Tigers' summer disintegration, the conference is more wide open than it's been in years. Here's a look at which teams have a shot at capturing the C-USA title this season, from best to worst. MEMPHIS: With ex-head coach John Calipari basking at Kentucky, Tyreke Evans turning in early numbers with Sacramento and Shawn Taggart toiling in obscurity, the Memphis Tigers' dominance atop the C-USA standings will be the shakiest it's been in years. Last year's scoring has gone out the window, but that just means the floor will be open to the talent Calipari brought in to ride the pine last year.
(10/23/09 12:00am)
I thought it was just a rumor, floated to generate some much-needed publicity. I thought Texas Christian University was tripping over Chris Del Conte's coattails, trying to uncover some of the magic our athletic director had used to turn Rice athletics from a graying, disheveled mess into a gleaming summit of college athletics in the Space City. Del Conte simply had too much left to accomplish within Rice: seeing through the revamping of Rice Stadium, constructing a bigger and better soccer stadium, returning men's basketball back to the Big Dance. Too many goals left, I thought.
(10/09/09 12:00am)
Dale Lloyd was only 19 years old when he collapsed on the Rice Stadium turf in 2006, dying the next morning from sickle cell complications. His tragedy left a new coach, an untried athletic director and a transitioning program reeling, but his legacy has assured that his death, however preventable, was not in vain. YOU'RE EXHAUSTED, and you're beaten. Your head throbs. Your throat feels like it's been scrubbed with steel wool. Rice Stadium is glinting in the heat, microwaving a mirage as you sprint along the grass.
(10/02/09 12:00am)
Lisa Meffert, a former biology professor at Rice, died suddenly on Tuesday at the age of 49, Howard R. Hughes Provost Gene Levy announced Friday in an e-mail. After graduating from the University of Houston with a degree in biological sciences in 1982, Meffert earned her Ph.D. from Houston in 1988. She then served on the biology staff at Houston until 2000 before moving to Rice's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, where she served until 2008.
(09/25/09 12:00am)
The last time we saw the football team, they were hoisting a glistening Texas Bowl trophy to the sky, the crowning spectacle to an unforgettable season in which Rice grabbed its first bowl win in 58 years. The stars that night were big and bright, deep in the heart of Reliant Stadium.My, how time flies.
(09/25/09 12:00am)
NFL Week 2 Sexy Sixteen Power Rankings 1. Baltimore Ravens. Apparently the Ravens have the second-highest scoring offense in the league behind the Saints. And you know they still have that nasty defense. Ray Lewis looks rejuvenated and Heap looks healthy.
(09/25/09 12:00am)
Kid Cudi does not have Drew Carey's gut. He doesn't have King LeBron's chalk-covered hands, nor does he have the city's penchant for exporting crippling depression.He has nothing, and is nothing, you would associate with Cleveland.
(09/25/09 12:00am)
Bruno Rosa did not get a chance to play in the men's tennis team's season-opener two weeks ago, but the senior made the most of his opportunity to shake off summer's rust last weekend. Rosa ended up on top of the singles draw at the 10th Annual Midland Invitational last weekend, winning five straight matches over the three-day tournament. Rosa, the tournament's No. 1 seed, opened up the Midland, Texas, draw by sweeping the University of Texas at Arlington's Dmitry Minkin and the University of Oklahoma's Ionut Beleleu. In the quarterfinals Rosa battled back to down Baylor University's Maros Horny 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 to set up a semifinal meeting with teammate Oscar Podlewski, a junior transfer from Elon University. Podlewski put up a solid audition for why he should crack the team's rotation, but Rosa bested the younger Owl 6-3, 7-6.
(09/18/09 12:00am)
While Assistant Coach Efe Ustundag (Baker '99) was busy firing off "50-year-old" guns as part of his mandatory Turkish military service, the rest of the men's team used the summer as an opportunity to train. Fortunately, Ustundag's conscription lasted only three weeks, so the coach was able to help his players through the varied, though not necessarily difficult, competition at last weekend's Rice Fall Invitational. The Owls netted an impressive showcase at the Invitational, a mixture of singles and doubles draws. Bumped out of Jake Hess Tennis Stadium because of a weekend of rain, Rice sent all but one of its players - senior Bruno Rosa, arguably the most talented of the bunch - to face off with athletes from Louisiana State University, Southern Methodist University, Tulane University and Prairie View A&M University.
(09/11/09 12:00am)
I don't know LeGarrette Blount. I don't know if he were a Gold Glove champ at 15, or if he slept as a child under posters of Ali, or if his favorite movie consists of the words "Rocky" or "Balboa." (If they have both in the name, shame on him.)I don't know much about him. But I know that I'd want him on my side if I were ever in a brawl. And I also know that I shouldn't know that. If Blount had kept his wits, if he hadn't ransacked Boise State defender Byron Hout's head with his right fist, then I would only know the former University of Oregon running back as a beefy ball-carrier who could potentially bring the Ducks back to a BCS berth.
(09/04/09 12:00am)
Andrew Sendejo recognizes that the beauty of college athletics lies in the turnover. Not the interception, per se - though as a defensive back he wouldn't be opposed to snatching one - but the personnel. Every year, roles are vacated and new, untried blood takes over. The constant rotation, year in and year out, can throw a team out of whack or a role into question. For some, it does - look no further than Rice's quarterback quandary if you want proof. But for the forward-looking, the new role does not quire a mile-long leap, but an inch-long shuffle.
(08/28/09 12:00am)
In 2003, Rice reached Shangri- La. The Owls brought home the 2003 NCAA baseball championship, showcasing the unreal pitching of the most talented trifecta college baseball has ever seen. The Big Three - Wade Townsend, Jeff Niemann and Philip Humber - catapulted Rice onto the national scene with their unabashed talent and unashamed verve. Everything they touched, every horsehide-and-stitched ball they burned by hitters, was gold.
(08/21/09 12:00am)
I saw the implosion from the inside out. The collapse of journalism, the creaking and crumbling and crashing of an industry that keeps politicians to task and athletes in the glare. I saw the faces behind it, the dinosaurs who were too slow or too unaware to update the business model when they could.I was in the middle of it this summer, in the New York magazine district, gleaning the lessons learnt from the movers of the publishing world. They admitted their failings. They told me what to expect in the immediate future. They made sure that my job prospects were grounded in reality, stuck in the mud of the recession and the layoffs.
(05/15/09 12:00am)
With the coming of summer, the Thresher staff is taking a break. But while there will be no issues until next semester, make sure to check back for updates on the baseball team's run to Omaha, beginning with the May 29 NCAA Regional, held at Rice's Reckling Park.
(05/15/09 12:00am)
If the University of Tulsa's men's tennis team parades out next year against Rice in red, white and blue jerseys, twirling basketballs and whistling a happy tune, don't be surprised. They're only filling the roles they've earned: That of the Harlem Globetrotters to the Owls' Washington Generals. But the Generals, the Globetrotters' longtime whipping boys, may have had it easier than the Owls. At least Washington's audience had the foresight to know Harlem was going to end on top. The Generals couldn't plead the proud naiveté that Rice has exhibited over the last four seasons, all of which have ended in defeats to Tulsa in the Conference USA finals.
(04/17/09 12:00am)
Because of hectic, time-consuming finals schedules, the Thresher will publish the final issue of the spring semester on May 14.
(04/17/09 12:00am)
The baseball team continued its recent up-and-down stretch with a 4-1 home loss to Texas State on Tuesday. Bobcats (34-12) starter Garret Carruth (4-2) tossed seven strong innings, limiting the third-ranked Owls to just one run on seven hits. Rice (31-12) starter Andrew Benak (1-1) struggled out of the gate, and after a pair of runs on three hits the freshman was replaced by Mark Haynes to close out the first inning.The loss is Rice's second in the last four games and third in the last seven, a foreboding stretch for a team that usually finds itself unbeatable in the late stretch of the season.
(04/17/09 12:00am)
With his 2003 debut Chariot and 2008 self-titled follow-up, Gavin DeGraw had successfully, albeit somewhat mockingly, carved out a certain niche for himself. Cashing in on the oozing, over-indulged sappiness of One Tree Hill, the CW drama that initially landed DeGraw on the iPods of teenage girls across the nation, DeGraw found his place as a gospel-voiced piano-man, a lovelorn mixture of Isaac Slade and Lionel Richie, with a hint of Howie Day on the side.But with the March 31 release of DeGraw's third effort, Free, it's safe to say that the 32-year-old has abandoned the niche he has furnished so well. Gone are the over-produced, tinny guitar riffs; gone is the simple piano-and-drums formula; and gone, for the most part, are the Coldplay-esque refrains of unadulterated love, the kind of quixotic stuff that enthralls Madame Bovary and pisses off Chuck Klosterman.
(04/17/09 12:00am)
Although they may have slipped further than expected, a pair of former Owls will be playing in the NFL this summer. The Jacksonville Jaguars selected former Rice wide receiver Jarett Dillard in the fifth round of the 2009 NFL Draft, and eight picks later, the Houston Texans chose former Rice tight end James Casey.Dillard and Casey become the first Rice tandem selected in the NFL draft since 2003, when Ryan Pontbriand was taken in the fifth round by Cleveland and Brandon Green was selected in the sixth by Jacksonville.
(04/17/09 12:00am)
All year long, the men's tennis coaches have been harping on this team's youth as the crux of Rice's success. If the Owls, who entered last weekend 13-9, were going to have a shot at an NCAA Tournament berth, they would need their young guns, a trio of untried, unfettered freshmen, to step up. Last week, the coaches got their wish.
