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SPORTS 2/13/17 10:01pm

Baseball preview: Experienced offense leads Owls into new season

By Andrew Grottkau

This season is unlike any we have seen in the past 20 years. For the first time since 1996, Rice baseball is not the defending conference champion.

SPORTS 2/13/17 10:00pm

Football adds 17 to 2017 recruiting class

By Andrew Grottkau

Although football season has only been over for about two months, the most important day of the offseason happened earlier this month.

SPORTS 1/31/17 11:53am

Super Bowl VIII: Rice's big game

By Andrew Grottkau

This week, the Atlanta Falcons will use Rice’s football fields to prepare for Super Bowl LI against the New England Patriots.

SPORTS 1/31/17 11:52am

Otto not letting All-American honor define his season

By Craig Broadman

As a freshman, junior pitcher Glenn Otto wasn’t sure how much playing time he would get. The Rice baseball team was stacked with talented upperclassmen pitchers and Otto wondered if he was going to get any innings.

SPORTS 1/31/17 11:50am

Men’s basketball shows marked improvement from last season

By Madison Buzzard

Twenty-two games into the 2015-2016 season, the Rice men’s basketball team sported a 7-15 record and a 2-6 mark in Conference USA.

SPORTS 1/31/17 11:49am

Rice students prepare as Super Bowl LI inches closer

By Michael Kidd

Super Bowl LI is just around the corner, and the excitement is mounting all over the nation for the biggest sporting event in the world.

SPORTS 1/23/17 10:35pm

Sharpshooting Koulechov continues basketball journey at Rice

By Craig Broadman

As a seventh grader, Egor Koulechov quit his soccer team in Volgograd, Russia. His family had moved to a new house, and without a car, practice was too far away.

SPORTS 1/23/17 10:19pm

Students go the distance in Houston Marathon

By Andrew Grottkau

While most students were relaxing over the Martin Luther King Day long weekend, some members of the Rice community were doing just the opposite.

SPORTS 1/23/17 10:17pm

Rainey pouring it on in junior season

By Madison Buzzard

Playing in her third year on the Rice women’s basketball team, junior guard Shani Rainey has proven to be a crucial component of the Owls’ success.

SPORTS 1/23/17 10:15pm

All-American Ip leads tennis into title defense

By Michael Kidd

Since senior Katherine Ip first stepped onto the courts at Rice, she has been a constant in the lineup for the women’s tennis team.

SPORTS 1/16/17 10:03pm

Swimming peaking as conference championships approach

By Andrew Grottkau

Rice swimming is riding a wave of momentum. Fresh off a victory in a four-team meet in San Diego, the Owls are cruising as they enter into their final month of preparation for the Conference USA championships. The season, however, did not start in the way the team had hoped it would.

SPORTS 1/16/17 9:58pm

Men’s basketball dominates North Texas behind huge second half

By Craig Broadman

Rice men’s basketball embraced the adage “It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish” on Saturday.

SPORTS 1/16/17 9:56pm

Football hires former Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator

By Madison Buzzard

After finishing the season 3-9 and ranking 123rd out of 128 teams in yards allowed per game, Rice football is making a change.

SPORTS 1/9/17 9:53pm

Told by Tolpadi: In keeping Bailiff, Owls commit to mediocrity

By Aniket Tolpadi

The Rice University football team entered the 2016 season with high expectations. It returned 18 of 22 starters from a team that finished a disappointing 5-7 from a year ago.

SPORTS 1/9/17 9:52pm

Women's basketball hoping to regain momentum after rough C-USA start

By Andrew Grottkau

Rice women’s basketball is three games over .500 in January for the first time since 2014 and has one of the better records in Conference USA.

SPORTS 1/9/17 9:49pm

Tudor Fieldhouse to undergo $4 million renovation

By Andrew Grottkau

The back of Tudor Fieldhouse — currently home to an empty pool, abandoned racquetball courts and curiously, the kinesiology department — is set to undergo a facelift.

SPORTS 11/29/16 1:21pm

Football falls to Stanford in final game but Bailiff will return next season

By Andrew Grottkau

In a chilly rain in front of a sparse Stanford Stadium crowd, the Rice football team finished off a 3-9 season with a 41-17 loss to No. 24 Stanford University Saturday night.

SPORTS 11/29/16 12:08am

Rice Rising: Basketball teams off to hot starts

By Andrew Grottkau

Rice women’s basketball is off to a 3-2 start, its best start since the 2011-12 season. The Owls have three double digit wins including a 26 point blowout of Houston Baptist University.

SPORTS 11/29/16 12:04am

From the editor's desk to the sports section: My first foray into football

By Yasna Haghdoost

For the past six months since I’ve gotten my MacBook fixed, the default login logo above my username has been a stock photo of a football.

SPORTS 11/28/16 11:57pm

Baseball suspends games in Cuba after Castro's death

By Andrew Grottkau

Rice baseball opened its trip to Cuba with a shutout victory over professional team Artemisa. Less than 24 hours later, their plans drastically changed.

Sports

Baseball preview: Experienced offense leads Owls into new season

Football adds 17 to 2017 recruiting class

Super Bowl VIII: Rice's big game

Otto not letting All-American honor define his season

Men’s basketball shows marked improvement from last season

Rice students prepare as Super Bowl LI inches closer

Sharpshooting Koulechov continues basketball journey at Rice

Students go the distance in Houston Marathon

Rainey pouring it on in junior season

All-American Ip leads tennis into title defense

Swimming peaking as conference championships approach

Men’s basketball dominates North Texas behind huge second half

Football hires former Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator

Told by Tolpadi: In keeping Bailiff, Owls commit to mediocrity

Women's basketball hoping to regain momentum after rough C-USA start

Tudor Fieldhouse to undergo $4 million renovation

Football falls to Stanford in final game but Bailiff will return next season

Rice Rising: Basketball teams off to hot starts

From the editor's desk to the sports section: My first foray into football

Baseball suspends games in Cuba after Castro's death

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