This came after Texans star J.J. Watt started a fundraising page that had raised more than $620,000 by Monday afternoon and Houston Rockets and owner Leslie Alexander donated $4 million to hurricane relief. Astros owner Jim Crane and the Astros foundation also 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.
Teams and athletes got in on the fundraising efforts for what will undoubtedly be a long rebuilding process. 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.
If the Astros play both series in Florida, they will end up playing 19 straight games away from Houston, where the AL West leaders last played on Aug. 24. A 10-game road trip begins after the Mets series.
Both the Astros and Rangers flew to Dallas after games in California on Sunday to await news of where the series would be held.
"On this trip, our job is (to) be No. 1,Cheap Jerseys Online, parents, and No. 2, to be coaches," he said. "We have to understand the human element in this."
"They're worried about parents and their families back there, but then all their belongings and their apartments, and their housing," Patterson said. "It must have been a very tough feeling to be playing a ballgame all the way in Australia knowing that maybe everything that you own may be gone."
"I was going to be stupid, but I had to come to the realization that I've got to leave it up to the professionals," Weathersby said. "I just sat down and just thought about the situation I was going to be putting myself in. I wasn't worried about school or nothing. I was just worried about trying to get there, get my people."
Nationals star Anthony Rendon, who grew up in Houston, has been stressed out hearing tales of his relatives struggling back home. He spoke to his parents on Monday morning.
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"Just the competitive challenge of having our guys' last road trip of the year, (a) four-city trip was not something that we wanted to do,Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys," he said. "We were prepared, we offered to host the series, but the decision was made to go to Tampa instead."
The Rice football team was settling in on TCU's campus in Fort Worth. The Owls opened the season over the weekend in Australia, where they lost to Stanford. They arrived in Los Angeles on Monday morning before another flight to Dallas, and were expected to share the campus with the Horned Frogs until things improve in Houston. The Owls have a week off before traveling to play UTEP on Sept. 9.
Weathersby and his LSU teammates were supposed to play BYU on Saturday at the home of the Texans. That game has been moved to the Superdome in New Orleans.
Weathersby, a junior, said he'd been in contact with his grandparents on Sunday and their home had not flooded, though rising water had engulfed their vehicles.
"They're stuck right now in the flood. Water is almost in the house," said Weathersby, a 6-foot-6, 308-pound junior. "You try to stay positive but ... It's one of those situations right now where you've got to keep praying. Hopefully my prayers reach over to my grandparents so they can hear me right now trying to tell them to try to get out."
The Texans have been in the Dallas area since leaving New Orleans after playing the Saints there on Saturday night. As the flooding dominated the news for another day, athletes with ties to Houston kept nervous watch, worrying about loved ones.
The University of Houston football team, meanwhile, is in Austin, where former coach Tom Herman is preparing for his first season in charge of the Longhorns after two seasons at Houston. He said the Cougars canceled their scheduled practice Sunday when the flooding was getting worse back in Houston, and "guys being worried and not really being focused on football, nor should they have been."
"But it's kind of hard at the same time to kind of sit there and play football and then think about your family that's back home when there's constantly updates going on aroun