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August 11, 2009
Listen Up, People: The Top Ten Coaches In Houston History
The Chron's Jerome Solomon has another of those endless lists we writers like to do, this one asking for input on the top 10 coaches in Houston college and pro sports history. And he helpfully provides us with some candidates for the list. So I thought I would help out and provide what I consider ... More >>
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August 17, 2009
Rice Getting Piece Of Art That It Declares Will Be A Masterpiece
Rice University announced today that, as the headline on the release put it, a "Multi-Million Dollar Gift Will Bring Turrell Masterpiece To Rice."A donation from alum Suzanne Deal Booth has allowed the school to commission a large work by noted artist James Turrell that will be built once plans a ... More >>
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March 31, 2010
Coogs Have Pitching Problems As They Face An Underachieving Rice
Photo courtesy UHThe Houston Cougar baseball team got off to a poor start to the season. Coming into the Houston College Classic at the start of the month, the team was 2-5, and they were lucky to have gotten their two wins. Then they pulled off the major upset at Minute Maid Park, sweeping al ... More >>
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April 6, 2010
Coogs Stumble As Rice Begins To Find Its Footing
It's a good day to be a baseball fan in Houston. The Astros are hosting the Giants at Minute Maid Park, the University of Houston is hosting Sam Houston State at Cougar Field, and the Rice Owls are hosting Dallas Baptist at Reckling Park.It's tempting to recommend the major league baseball. B ... More >>
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April 15, 2010
Rice Romps As It Starts To Make Its Move In C-USA
It's hard to find fault with your baseball team when you win a game 23-1, and that game is called in the seventh-inning because of the so-called travel rule -- it actually appeared to be more of a mercy type thing, but called the game was.Yet leave it to Rice Owls coach Wayne Graham, the coach of ... More >>
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April 26, 2010
Rice Plunders ECU's Pirates As They Surge in C-USA
Walking from the Rice clubhouse to the Rice dugout, right past the trainer's room, you pass a dry erase board. There was a message on that board Saturday afternoon. A message reading "Plunder the Pirates. Go Owls." And if one word can be applied to describe what the Rice Owls did to C-USA foe ... More >>
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May 6, 2010
Rice Coach Wayne Graham: He Reads The Message Boards
Take THAT, internet commenters!!Here's a little note for you Rice Owl baseball fans who like to post on the message boards. Coach Wayne Graham likes to read your little postings. But here's the thing, he doesn't always agree with what you write. And he's hoping that, after last night's 16-9 win o ... More >>
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May 18, 2010
Rice, UH Battle Weather And C-USA Rivals As Tournament Looms
Photo courtesy UHCoogs are hoping for a miracleThe weather caused some major havoc to the Houston-area college baseball season this past weekend as both the Houston Cougars and Rice Owls, playing big series with important post-season implications, waited out rain-outs, delays, and bizarre game ti ... More >>
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May 19, 2010
Rice Tops UH, But Both Teams Have Concerns For The Tournament
Photo courtesy UHRice takes the crosstown series as Coogs keep stumblingIn the ultimate scheme of things, Rice's 15-5 over Houston last night means absolutely nothing. Rice had already clinched the Silver Glove Series, again, which goes to the team that wins the season series between the two team ... More >>
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May 21, 2010
Rice's Mike Ojala May Have Found Some Help In The Rotation, Just In Time
Fear the owl. FEAR IT......The Rice Owls might have already clinched a share of the Conference USA baseball championship, and they might have already clinched the number-one seed in next week's C-USA tournament.But don't tell the Owls that these remaining three regular season games don't count.T ... More >>
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May 24, 2010
Mike Ojala, Rice Get Ready For Post-Season Play
Photo courtesy Rice baseball Mike Ojala went out in style in his last Reckling Park gameThe Rice Owls (35-20, 17-7 in conference) ended the regular season much in the same fashion as they began. At times over the final two games against UAB, the Owls pitching was un-hittable and the Rice h ... More >>
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May 26, 2010
C-USA's Post-Season Tournament: Kind Of Pointless
Meaningless exhibition games in the post-season? Great ideaConference USA has been making a big deal out of the fact that all six teams advancing to its postseason baseball tournament, starting today at Cougar Field, are guaranteed of playing three games. What conference officials fail to point o ... More >>
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May 27, 2010
UH And Rice Improve Their Outlooks In C-USA's Confusing Tournament (We Think)
Photo courtesy UHGoodnight had all the support a pitcher needsAfter yesterday's opening Conference USA tournament baseball games, only one thing is clear: if Southern Miss and Houston win today, then they're playing for the C-USA title on Saturday game and none of Friday's games will matter.But t ... More >>
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May 28, 2010
UH Makes Matters Clear In The Confusing C-USA Tournament: They Suck
Photo courtesy UHYou had a bad day......The scoreboard at Cougar Field appeared to suffer a malfunction last night. There was "one" run showing for Rice in the first-inning column, yet under the total runs column, the number was "11."The problem was that the top of the first inning had just ende ... More >>
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May 31, 2010
Rice Drops C-USA Tourney But Will Advance
UH played on of the most pointless games everGood pitching, it's said, will always defeat good hitting. Thus it was that the Rice Owls on Saturday night found their bats facing the outstanding pitching of the Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles.The Owls had been as close to perfect in the C-USA ... More >>
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June 4, 2010
Mike Ojala And Rice Try To Ignite A Run To The College World Series
Rice's road to Omaha begins in AustinSo it's off to Austin Regional that the Rice Owls go, and this afternoon at 1 p.m., the Owls (38-21) will begin their quest to return to another College World Series. The Owls are the number-two seed in the regional, behind the number-one seed Texas Longhorns ... More >>
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June 7, 2010
Longhorns End Rice's Season
Damn you, BevoRice Owls pitcher Mike Ojala had been lobbying coach Wayne Graham to let him pitch a complete game for four years. That lobbying had been excessively hard this season, since Ojala wanted to get at least one in his Rice career.But with his coming off off-season Tommy John surgery, ... More >>
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August 17, 2010
KTRU News Roils, Saddens Local Music Community
UPDATED (5:35 p.m.) to include comments from Rice's B.J. Almond and a new Facebook count. The fate of KTRU's annual outdoor free concert in the spring is one of many things that has yet to be decided.News of the University of Houston's impending purchase of Rice University student radio stat ... More >>
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October 18, 2010
Saturday: The Marching Owl Band At Rice Stadium
Photos by Marco Torres For more photos from Saturday's game, see our slideshow here. Saturday was a difficult day for Aftermath on a number of levels. Not only did we have to watch our soon-to-be alma mater get its tail kicked by our crosstown rival, we were also forced to sit through what ... More >>
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October 28, 2010
Owls Basketball Prepares To Fly
It's no secret that Rice's men's basketball program has not been very successful in recent seasons. Last year's team finished the season with a woeful 8-23 record, and with many of the same players returning this season, there shouldn't be much hope for this season.Yet, strangely, there is th ... More >>
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November 9, 2010
Believe It Or Not, It's Time For College Basketball
John Royal Cougars prepare to play basketballThey were just exhibition games, and they tell us that exhibition games are meaningless. They don't count in the standings. They're a chance to test game conditioning. To see how well everyone understands the offense. To see what improvements ne ... More >>
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November 22, 2010
Rice Basketball: Owls Slay Cavaliers
How about some Rice basketball?The Rice Owls shouldn't have to struggle against a team like the St. Gregory's Cavaliers. St. Gregory's is one of those NAIA teams brought in to boost records and help with the confidence. And a final score of 75-58 makes it appear that Rice didn't have that m ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Rice Forward Calls Teammates "Scared" After Arizona Loss
Arizona unloaded on RiceThe Rice Owls are in a tough stretch of games. They've been on the road, and they're running up against the end of the semester, which means finals and tests and papers and no sleep. So maybe their 84-57 loss to the Arizona Wildcats can be explained away by going wit ... More >>
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December 7, 2010
Rice A Hotbed Of Wild-Eyed Liberalism That Undermines Family Values, Group Says
The Rice Owl, swooping in to take your your AmericaIf you dare to step onto the campus of Rice University -- and we don't suggest it, after reading the most recent report from CampusReform.org -- be prepared to experience rampant liberalism dedicated to undermining family values. Not to ment ... More >>
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December 17, 2010
Rice Owls Hit The Jackpot, And A Three-Pointer Or Two
The Owls are heading to Vegas, babyThe Rice Owls played the first game of the Las Vegas Hoops Classic last night, and the Owls improved their record to 5-4 as they defeated the (6-5) UALR Trojans 65-55. But though the game was part of a Las Vegas basketball tournament, the game was played a ... More >>
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December 30, 2010
Rice Basketball: What's New, Pussycat?
The Owls turned the LSU Tigers into pussycatsThere are droughts, and there are droughts. And fittingly, on a day when the city of Houston was submerged under a continuous downpour of rain that may have helped to end a drought that's been dragging down the city, the Rice Owls found a way&nbs ... More >>
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January 3, 2011
Rice Owls De-Horn The Frogs, Prepare For C-USA
John Royal Trey Stanton with a big first half shot blockThe Rice Owls won eight basketball games all of last season. But things change, and yesterday, after defeating the TCU Horned Frogs 70-61, the Rice Owls have win number eight and they've yet to reach conference play. The game didn't p ... More >>
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January 6, 2011
Rice Owls Overwhelmed by a Barrage of Three-Pointers
John RoyalArsalan Kazemi makes a jumper in the first halfRice Owls head coach Ben Braun was worried about the Tulane Green Wave last week. Even as the Owls were defeating LSU and TCU for some impressive out-of-conference wins, Braun was worried about a Tulane team he thought might be the most i ... More >>
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January 13, 2011
Owls Basketball: Just One or Two Plays Away, Again
John RoyalBen Braun questions a call in the first halfRice Owls head coach Ben Braun says that his team is close. One or two plays away close. One or two plays away from winning those close games and being a good basketball team. But all that actually matters is that the Owls are still a f ... More >>
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January 21, 2011
Owls Basketball Searching for a Reason to Believe
John RoyalRice cheerleaders need a reason to cheerThe Rice Owls were heading high come the start of conference play. They'd already won eight games, matching their total from all of last season. They'd played a difficult non-conference schedule against such college powers as Arizona, Texas ... More >>
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January 27, 2011
Owls Basketball: Given the Second Chance, Owls Soar Over the Cougars
John RoyalRice guard Connor Frizzelle awaits a pass in the first halfThe Houston Cougars were 11-6 and tied for first place in Conference USA this time last week. The Rice Owls were 8-10 and floundering in last place in C-USA. What a difference a week makes. Now it's the Cougars who are fl ... More >>
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January 31, 2011
Egypt & Rice Basketball: You Say You Want a Revolution
John RoyalExcuse Omar Oraby if his mind is on something other than basketballIt's easy to forget that basketball is just a game. Particularly on the college level where, for the most part, it's played mostly by kids who are a long way from home. And as much as fans might want the team to wi ... More >>
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February 7, 2011
UTEP Mines Another Win Against the Owls
John RoyalBen Braun argues a call made against the Owls on SaturdayIt's becoming a rather common story for the Rice Owls. Fall behind. Make a big comeback. Fall short in the closing minutes. Lose the game. It's one that happened again on Saturday as the Owls lost to the UTEP Miners by th ... More >>
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February 8, 2011
The Rice Owls Set Aim on Omaha
John RoyalHolt McNair tosses a pitch during practiceIf Rice Owls athletics exceed at any one thing, it's producing an exceptional baseball squad year after year. Things are supposedly no different this year as the Owls are ranked in the top 25 of every one of the seemingly 5,000 college base ... More >>
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February 15, 2011
Meet Anthony Rendon, Rice Baseball's Newest Whiz Kid
John RoyalMeet Anthony RendonHis name is Anthony Rendon. You might have heard of him if you're a fan of Rice Owls baseball, or if you follow college baseball. You might also have heard of him if you're one of those people who follow Houston-area high school baseball. If you're a fan of the ... More >>
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February 21, 2011
Owls De-Claw the Tigers, Get First-Ever Win Over Memphis
John RoyalConnor Frizzelle drives the baseline in the first halfThe Memphis Tigers were the number one team in Conference USA Saturday afternoon. In a conference guaranteed only one team in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, the Tigers were primed to be that team. They just forgot one th ... More >>
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February 21, 2011
Cougars and Owls: Hey, What Do You Know? At Least Some Houston Teams Can Win Baseball Games
John RoyalHouston's Caleb Ramsey knocks a first-inning two-run triple on Friday nightThe expectations for the Houston Cougars baseball team are almost nonexistent. Hustle. Stay competitive. Aim toward being better next season. The expectations for the Rice Owls are high. Win Conference U ... More >>
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February 25, 2011
UH and Rice Attempt to Salvage Their Seasons This Weekend
John RoyalMaurice McNeil hopes to lead the Cougars out to three more winsThe Houston Cougars and Rice Owls looked to be moving in different directions as the men's basketball season got underway. The Cougars had a new head coach, James Dickey, who hadn't been a head coach since the 1990s. T ... More >>
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February 28, 2011
College Basketball: Owls Lose a Heartbreaker While Coogs Appear to Give Up
John RoyalRice's Arsalan Kazemi battles for position under the Rice basketNo coach wants to have to draw up a play with 2.3 seconds left that, if it works, merely ties the score and sends the game to overtime. But such was the position Rice Owls coach Ben Braun was in last night, his Owls do ... More >>
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February 28, 2011
College Baseball: Rice Sweeps the Trojans While UH Struggles Against the Rebs
John RoyalRice's Michael Ratterree tags out USC's Matt Foat trying to advance on a sac flyIn the first weekend of the college baseball season, it was the Houston Cougars pulling off the home sweep of UT-Arlington while the Rice Owls were losing two of three to visiting Stanford. The competit ... More >>
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March 3, 2011
Rice Basketball: Farce? Fiasco? Either Way, the Owls Lose Another
John RoyalThe malfunctioning shot clock displays Rice's chances of advancing to the NCAA TournamentWhat if they played a basketball game and nobody cared? What if it was senior night, but the school was on spring break and not even the band or cheerleaders could be bothered to make even a to ... More >>
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March 7, 2011
Owls Soar and Coogs Plunge As the Regular Season Ends
John RoyalThe Cougars and Owls tip off to begin Saturday's gameMaurice McNeil made a lay-up 34 seconds into Houston's Saturday game against the Rice Owls. This shot put the Cougars up 2-0. The Cougars never again led in the game, and except for one brief shining moment when they tied the ga ... More >>
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March 7, 2011
Looking Back at This Weekend's Houston College Classic
John RoyalRice's Michael Ratterree slides across the plate to score a run yesterday against BaylorThe 11th Houston College Classic was played at Minute Maid Park this weekend, and though it's only March, it's probably safe to say that the best baseball to be played in Minute Maid Park this se ... More >>
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March 9, 2011
Houston and Rice Pray for a Miracle As C-USA Tournament Starts Today
John RoyalHouston Cougars coach James DickeyThe Houston Cougars and Rice Owls men's basketball teams take to the court again today. Possibly for the last time. Possibly for the start of a miracle run. And while the Owls eagerly look for such a run to happen, using the Cougars of last year ... More >>
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March 21, 2011
Owls Baseball: Pitching Is A Beautiful Thing
John RoyalShortstop Derek Hamilton charges in to make the play on Saturday afternoonIt's been a tough season for the Rice Owls baseball squad - far tougher than they bargained for. Anthony Rendon has spent much of the season at DH because of shoulder issues. Outfielder Michael Fuda has been ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
Owls Soar Over The Cougars And Continue To Dominate Cross-Town Series
John RoyalHouston Cougar Ryan Still leaps high for an overthrown ball on a first inning Rice sacrifice buntThe Houston Cougars (11-11) grabbed the 1-0 lead from the Rice Owls (15-9) in the top of the first inning last night. The Owls scored two runs in the bottom of the first, and the game w ... More >>
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March 28, 2011
Owls Baseball Falling Prey To Injuries
John RoyalMichael Ratterree makes the throw to first for an early out on SaturdayThe Rice Owls are not in a good place. One could sense that on Saturday afternoon when the Owls took the field only to find that day's scheduled DH, Shane Hoelscher, taking throws at third base instead of Anthon ... More >>
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April 4, 2011
Rice Thunders Past Marshall, Sweeps the Herd
John RoyalRice pitcher Austin Kubitza with another dominating performance on Friday.The Final Four dominated the attention of the sports media this weekend, rightly or wrongly. But while that whole NCAA exercise, especially UConn and Kentucky, was making a mockery of the concept of amateur a ... More >>
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January 20, 2012
Owls and Coogs Disappointing Basketball Fans, Dammit
These guys are turrible!The Rice Owls (11-8, 2-2) lost a basketball game they should have won on Wednesday night. The Houston Cougars (9-9, 1-4) were blown out yet again. It's turning into another disappointing men's basketball season in Houston, Texas. It's not supposed to have been this ... More >>
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February 10, 2012
Owls Stage The Comeback And Stun The Coogs In Game That Epitomized Both Teams
The Owls pulled off quite the comeback in defeating UH on Wednesday nightThe Houston Cougars dashed off to a 13-0 lead against the Rice Owls on Wednesday night. The offense worked to perfection. There was some decent defense being played. But as the teams went into a timeout only 7:45 into th ... More >>
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