With the help of rookie Smith, Rony Seikaly, and a more experienced Glen Rice, the Heat finished in fourth place in the Atlantic Division with a 38 – 44 record even with a shocking defeat against the Cleveland Cavaliers 148 – 80 and made the playoffs for the first time in their history, becoming the first of the four late 80's expansion teams to do so.

Steve Smith made the NBA All-Rookie team and Glen Rice finished 10th in the NBA in scoring.

With Wesley, Phills, Rice, Mason and Divac, the Hornets romped through the regular season, finishing with a 51 – 31 record ; Rice had another good season, as he finished sixth in league scoring and earned all-NBA third team honors.

They finished second in Division 2 Football, losing to Birmingham Brother Rice in a close battle.

Nationally-syndicated columnist Grantland Rice argued that Doby and Gene Bearden, the Indians would have finished in fourth or fifth place.

For the finished project, Lloyd Webber used at least five of the tunes he had written for the 1986 one-act musical Cricket, which he had written with Tim Rice.

Ashman and Menken had also written eleven songs intended for Aladdin, though only " Arabian Nights ," " Friend Like Me " and " Prince Ali " were included in the finished film, for which Menken wrote several new songs with Tim Rice.

Guidry also finished second in American League Most Valuable Player voting to Boston Red Sox slugger Jim Rice.

On April 13, 2010, World Community Grid officially announced that the Nutritious Rice for the World project finished on April 6, 2010.

For the season, Watters finished second on the team in rushing behind quarterback Tony Rice.

John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, and Condoleezza Rice finished second, third, and fourth, respectively.

Craig finished the game with 125 rushing yards and a touchdown, while Rice caught 6 passes for 114 yards and 2 scores.

Rice finished the game with 5 receptions for 133 yards and 2 touchdowns.

Rice, although suffering a broken wrist in late September, finished with a. 309 average, 22 homers and 102 RBIs.

For the 2005 season, RLR's three drivers were Buddy Rice, who won the 2004 Indianapolis 500 while driving for the team, Vitor Meira, who finished second in the 2005 & 2008 Indianapolis 500s, and Danica Patrick, who finished fourth in the 2005 Indianapolis 500, and had the highest finish of any female driver ( 3 previous ) in the history of the Indianapolis 500.

Rice finished 15th in points, Patrick finished 9th, and Simmons finished 16th.

Kenyon still finished 2nd while the USA made it a 1-4 result with Larry Rice and Garry Patterson being the only other drivers to finish on the lead lap.

`` Kelsey is very doubtful for the Rice game '', Meek said.

SMU will play the Owls at Rice Stadium in Houston in a night game Saturday, Oct. 21.

End Gene Raesz, who broke a hand in the Owl's game with LSU, was back working out with Rice Monday, and John Nichols, sophomore guard, moved back into action after a week's idleness with an ankle injury.

The game was played on January 13, 1974 at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas.

However, 49ers quarterback Steve Young's 5-yard touchdown pass to Jerry Rice cut the lead 24-20 with 4: 22 left in the game.

Six plays later, Young threw his record setting sixth touchdown pass to Rice with 13: 49 remaining in the game to make the score 49-18.

Reflecting on his career in 1930, Cobb told Grantland Rice, " The biggest thrill I ever got came in a game against the Athletics in 1907 September 30 ...

On June 18, in a 10 – 4 loss to the Boston Red Sox in a nationally-televised game at Fenway Park in Boston, Jim Rice, a powerful hitter but notorious slow runner, hit a ball into shallow right field that Jackson appeared to weakly attempt to field.

* Rice has its own game preserve and two taxidermy shops.

* Michael Silver ( 1988 )-NFL columnist for Yahoo Sports ; previously, award-winning NFL writer for Sports Illustrated, authoring the magazine's Super Bowl game story for 12 straight years from 1994 through 2006 ; co-author of books by Jerry Rice, Dennis Rodman, Kurt Warner, and Natalie Coughlin

A few plays later, Gannon threw a 48-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jerry Rice with 6: 06 left in the game, cutting the Raiders deficit to 34-21.

Rice was the Raiders ' leading receiver of the game with 5 catches for 77 yards and a touchdown.

On November 16, 1940, BC's Frank Leahy-coached championship team took a win from two-season undefeated Georgetown in the final seconds in a game that renowned sportswriter Grantland Rice called the greatest ever played.

In one especially infamous incident, on June 18, 1977, in the middle game of what would prove to be a three-game series sweep by the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, Martin pulled Jackson off the field ( replacing him with Paul Blair ) in mid-inning for failing to hustle and catch a shallow outfield fly ball by Jim Rice, allowing Rice to reach second base.

He appeared in the football video game All-Pro Football 2K8, along with Joe Montana and Jerry Rice.

He ate chicken before every game ( Jim Rice once called Boggs " chicken man "), woke up at the same time every day, took exactly 117 ground balls in practice, took batting practice at 5: 17, and ran sprints at 7: 17.

Rice only averaged 13. 6 points per game his rookie season but bumped that up to 20 ppg for his remaining five seasons in Miami, which included two trips to the playoffs.

Rice was the first Heat player to average 20 + points per game in a season ( 1991 – 1992 ).

Rice peaked as a member of the Charlotte Hornets in the 1996-1997 season when he was third in the league in scoring behind only Michael Jordan and Karl Malone averaging 26. 8 points per game.

In 1995, Rice won the NBA All-Star Long Distance Shootout at the 1995 All-Star game in Phoenix, edging out another sharp-shooter Reggie Miller.

Rice was named MVP of the 1997 All-Star game, which was commemorating the 50th anniversary of NBA.

Rice scored a career-high 56 points on April 15, 1995 while playing for the Heat in a nationally-televised game against Shaquille O ' Neal and the Orlando Magic.

Rice remains the Hornets'all-time leader in scoring average with 23. 5 points per game.

Rice has not played since injuring a knee in the opener with Maryland.

Their first project was the stage musical Chess, written with Tim Rice.

Jane Chance ( Professor of English, Rice University ) in her 1980 article " The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother " argued that there are two standard interpretations of the poem: one view which suggests a two-part structure ( i. e., the poem is divided between Beowulf's battles with Grendel and with the dragon ) and the other, a three-part structure ( this interpretation argues that Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother is structurally separate from his battle with Grendel ).

Rice and Chenopodium album leaf curry with onions and potatoes ; a vegetarian curry dish.

Rice ' n Peas, Vegetables and Chicken made with Jamaican jerk spice

Students at Rice University in Houston, Texas, for example, held tournaments with trees as targets as early as 1964, and in the early 1960s players in Pendleton King Park in Augusta, Georgia would toss Frisbees in 50-gallon barrel trash cans designated as targets.

Rice responded to the comments with her own lengthy response, which was quickly met with more feedback from users.

Rice is grown in the Camargue, which is the most-northerly rice growing area in Europe, with Camargue red rice being a specialty.

The idea was used by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan, in the seven-novel " Pellucidar " series, beginning with At the Earth's Core ( 1914 ).

Tarzan author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, was pleased with Weissmuller, although he so hated the studio's depiction of a Tarzan who barely spoke English that he created his own concurrent Tarzan series filmed on location in Central American jungles and starring Herman Brix as a suitably articulate version of the character.

In September 2008, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Gaddafi and announced that US-Libya relations have entered a ' new phase '.

Through collaboration with the International Rice Research Institute ( IRRI ), 52 modern rice varieties were released in the country between 1966 and 1997, helping increase national rice production to 14 million tons in 1987 and to 19 million tons in 1996.

Researchers at Rice University under Prof. Jennifer West, have demonstrated the use of 120 nm diameter nanoshells coated with gold to kill cancer tumors in mice.

* 2005 – John Rice, known as the shortest living twin with Greg Rice until his death, at 2 ft. 10 in.

* Rice, often with saffron or raisins – Nearly all Sephardi Jews and many Mizrachi Jews consider rice to be an essential food for the Passover table ; Ashkenazi Jews and Hasidic Jews do not eat rice during Passover as a matter of minhag.

Opened in 1912 after the murder of its namesake William Marsh Rice, Rice is now a preeminent research university with a distinct undergraduate and graduate focus.