{"id":128020,"date":"2017-08-29T15:19:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T20:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=128020"},"modified":"2017-08-29T15:30:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T20:30:58","slug":"sports-teams-donate-millions-harvey-disaster-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=128020","title":{"rendered":"Sports teams donate millions, Harvey disaster relief"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 The Houston Rockets and owner Leslie Alexander have upped their donation to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts to $10 million.<\/p>\n

Alexander pledged $4 million to Houston mayor Sylvester Turner’s Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund on Monday before announcing that he’d donate $10 million to help victims affected by catastrophic flooding in the city on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The donation is the largest of many contributions by Houston’s sports teams and athletes in recent days. Astros owner Jim Crane and the Astros foundation pledged $4 million to the cause and Major League Baseball also contributed, joining with the players association to donate $1 million to the Red Cross and relief organizations chosen by the players.<\/p>\n

The Texans and owner Bob McNair donated $1 million to the United Way of Greater Houston Flood Relief Fund. The NFL Foundation said it would match the $1 million donation, and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and his family pledged to match all funds donated to the American Red Cross in support of Harvey flood relief up to $1 million.<\/p>\n

Houston star J.J. Watt started a fundraising page<\/a> online that has raised more than $1.6 million since its inception on Sunday. His original goal was $500,000, but he’s now aiming to raise $2 million.<\/p>\n

Syracuse, N.Y. (Syracuse.com) The Syracuse Chiefs International League Baseball team will be lending a hand to the victims of Hurricane Harvey Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

The team will donate proceeds from a 50\/50 raffle to the Houston food bank in their relief efforts. Multiple Chiefs players have pledged their support and will purchase raffle tickets.<\/p>\n

In addition, players are donating clothes and shoes that will be sent to Houston after the game. There will be bins outside the main entrance\u00a0to the stadium where fans can drop off clothes and other items to be donated.<\/p>\n

Both Syracuse starter John Simms (The Woodlands) and Lehigh Valley starter Jake Thompson (Dallas) are natives of Texas. Simms will be putting the area code of Houston on his cleats Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

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Syracuse University basketball equipment manager Dan Shworles is packing up gear and shipping it to Houston.\u00a0 Programs will\u00a0 provide 20 shirts and 10 pairs of shoes.\u00a0 SU’s director of basketball operations Kip Wellman says the Orange will deliver at least that much gear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 The Houston Rockets and owner Leslie Alexander have upped their donation to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts to $10 million. Alexander pledged $4 million to Houston mayor Sylvester Turner’s Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund on Monday before announcing that he’d donate $10 million to help victims affected by catastrophic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":128022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128020"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128026,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128020\/revisions\/128026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}