At the beginning of the season, the Rice baseball team looked like it was destined for an unspectacular year.
Paul Damon Thames received the 1998 ABCA National Player of the Year Award and smacked 60 career doubles before he became a ninth round draft pick of the St.
Women’s basketball senior forward Alyssa Lang logged heavy minutes for the Owls this season, playing 26 minutes per game and averaging 5.1 points and 5.5 rebounds per game.
The President’s Cup pits all 11 colleges and their intramural sports teams against each other. Over the course of each year, Rice’s residential colleges put together their finest athletes and send them off to compete in intramural sports from basketball to billiards.
A packed Reckling Park crowd of 5,478 fans watched the Rice University baseball team earn its first win of the season over a top-10 team in a 4-3 upset victory over No. 3 Texas A&M University Tuesday night.
The Final Four has attracted all kinds of celebrities, public figures and fans to Houston this weekend.
This weekend, the biggest college sporting event in the country was held just down the street from our school.
“Ancora Imparo.” These two words rest, fully visible in a beautifully decorated frame, at the center of legendary head coach Wayne Graham’s office in Reckling Park.
Rice’s No. 40 men’s tennis team faced a tall task going into its weekend match against No. 9 Texas Tech University.
I have often heard it said that Rice is not a “sports school.” Supposedly, Rice is a place where students value academics while the athletic program operates in the background, quietly raising money for the school while students toil away in Fondren.
The Rice baseball team has won its conference championship every year since 1996. Over the weekend, the Owls began their quest to continue this streak when they traveled to San Antonio to play a three-game series against the University of Texas, San Antonio.
It is easy for Rice varsity athletic teams to gain campus-wide recognition for their achievements.
Two weekends from now, Houston will host the biggest college basketball event of the year: the Final Four.
Junior pitcher Jon Duplantier never considered himself a baseball player until midway through high school. Now, just five years later, he is one of the best college baseball players in the country and is projected to be a top-100 pick in the upcoming Major League Baseball draft.
Last Wednesday, both of the Rice basketball teams were in action fighting to keep their seasons alive in the Conference USA tournament in Birmingham, Alabama.
The Rice men’s and women’s track and cross country teams along with the women’s soccer team have seen recent increases in conference success.
The Rice baseball team entered the season with the hopes of reaching the College World Series. With a strong pitching rotation including All-American senior Blake Fox and a lineup featuring returning stars such as junior outfielders Charlie Warren and Dayne Wunderlich, the Owls appeared poised for a great season.
If you’re reading this it’s too late: You are already invested in Rice sports, and there is no need for me to convince you that they are worth your time.
After a dominating victory over Florida International University on Saturday afternoon, Rice head coach Mike Rhoades marched off the court and waved a gracious “Thank you” to the student section like he does after every home game this year.
Back in 1986, Baseball Digest Magazine published an article explaining how to play the game of baseball “the right way” or in a manner that preserved and respected the great history of what has become known as “America’s Pastime.” Titled “The Book of Unwritten Baseball Rules,” the article covered rules that would not be found in an MLB or NCAA rule book but rather those that are generally known or, in some cases, not even spoken of.
