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Bayou Bucket: Crosstown rivals University of Houston and Rice not slated to play past 2023!

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Houston, Texas (KTRK) – Rice University and the University of Houston will face a football game for the 44th time on Saturday. This will be the 41st time the winner has received the Bayou Bucket Cup – presented by the Touchdown Club of Houston. However, Bayou’s bucket may be empty in the near future. These two rivals are scheduled to play in Croistown in 2023, the 45th meeting. But there’s no match scheduled after 2023. UH and Rice will move to the new leagues in 2023, with the Cougars jumping…

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Rice University to honor 50th anniversary of the class of 1972 that was the first to include Black student-athletes!

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Houston, Texas (KTRK) – Jamila Mensah, a former track athlete at Rice University, is still talking about her alma mater. “Rice is something that we all wear with great pride,” Mensah explained. And she means it, right down to her owl accessories. But Jamila, a Westfield High School produce from Houston, says she wouldn’t have had the chance to walk the trails at Rice had it not been for the people who carved a path decades before her. “This is useful in a way that carries the torch but gives…

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Rice University celebrates 60th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s famous moon speech!

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Houston, Texas (KTRK) – “We choose to go to the moon.” President John F. Kennedy said those powerful words in a landmark speech at Rice Stadium 60 years ago, and on Monday, the university will wrap up a three-day event to celebrate that anniversary. Kennedy gave the speech on September 12, 1962, in front of a crowd of 40,000 on the football field. Kennedy famously said, “We chose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are…

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Rice University scores No. 6 rank among best colleges in the US and No. 1 in Texas!

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byJohn Egan Across Houston, Texas — Rice University is an outstanding student among the best colleges in the United States The video shown above is from a previous report of 2021 when Rice University was named one of the greatest schools in the United States. new classification From an education information and review platform, Niche ranks Rice as the sixth best college in the country and best in Texas, with MIT ranked first nationally. Rice’s ranking is one notch higher than seventh on the Specialized List released in 2021. “We…

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Election Day 2022: Experts explain what needs to happen in order to keep Texas governor race close!

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Fort Bend County, Texas (KTRK) – With summer winding down, schools back in session, and voting just weeks away, we can expect to see the governors’ race in Texas rebound. This was on full display this week in Fort Bend County. A place where Governor Greg Abbott won by less than 500 votes four years ago. Experts say the boycott is purple and could indicate a path to victory for any of the candidates. People crowded into the Fort Bend County Fairgrounds Thursday to hear Governor Beto O’Rourke’s candidate. He…

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Jamey Rootes, former Texans and Dynamo exec, has died, wife announces!

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Houston, Texas (KTRK) – On Monday night, his wife said Jamie Roots, the former long-time head of the Houston Texans, has died. In a Facebook post, Melissa Wildegen Ruttes said her husband died on Sunday after a “battle with mental health issues”. “Jameh was best known for his dedication to his family and friends, but he was also the former president of the Houston Texans, retiring in 2021,” she wrote. Rootes has been a staple of Houston sports as head of the Texans for two decades. Rutis managed the business…

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2022 Final Four: TSU, HBU, UH and Rice University to offer collegiate basketball tournament course in the fall!

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Houston, Texas (KTRK) – Houston will be the official host city for the 2023 NCAA men’s final tournament in over seven months. During that time, schools placing their tickets to the stadiums here in Space City will make history. And the lucky students from the universities here in Houston will be a part of that. “We have strategic priorities in men’s basketball, and one of those priorities is to advance education,” Joan Scott, managing director of the NCAA men’s basketball, told ABC13. “That falls right in it.” We have seen…

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