Sports
September 19, 2016
Let’s Talk About That Rice/Baylor Halftime Performance
Supporters of Rice’s Marching Owl Band say that its performance mocking Baylor’s rape scandal was powerful—but let’s look at it a little more closely.
Rice
Sports
August 29, 2013
A&M Will Make It Two Straight Over ‘Bama, But Could UT Have the Better Season?
College football predictions—some more serious than others—heading into the first weekend.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Ranking the Texas Bowl Games So Far
Teams from Texas—all former members of the Southwest Conference—went 5-1 in the pre-New Year's college football bowls. …
Food & Drink
January 21, 2013
Mama Grande’s Rice
My grandmother, or Mama Grande, lived in Donna, between Brownsville and McAllen, and we’d often go see her on Sundays. We’d take Highway 281, a two-lane road that runs parallel to the Rio Grande and that Dad called el camino militar. I remember sitting in the backseat of his ’57…
Sports
January 2, 2013
Ranking the Texas Bowl Games So Far
Teams from Texas—all former members of the Southwest Conference—went 5-1 in the pre-New Year's college football bowls. …
Sports
November 2, 2011
UTEP Football Coach Wants to “shoot white Horned Owls” in Houston
Mike Price tries to fire up his team at practice for this weekend's Rice game with fake arrest and hunting jokes.
News & Politics
March 31, 1975
What Your Mother Never Told You About Rice
A grain of truth about the high cost of food.