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Celebrate Cinco de Mayo at home with these classic drinks, eats and desserts
Enjoy a fiesta in su casa with these classic Mexican dishes and drinks
Best to Wear Number Five? Notre Dame Legend Left Off List
Who is the best college football player to ever wear number five? Fox Sports asked but left a Notre Dame legend off their list of answers.
In their Cinco De Mayo celebration Tuesday, Fox Sports was asking who the best player to ever wear number five in college football was. Some great nominees were on there including Reggie Bush, Christian McCaffrey and LaDanian Tomlinson in recent years.
Notre Dame even had a nomination in the form of Manti Te’o who wore jersey number five for the Fighting Irish between 2009-2012, finishing second in the Heisman Trophy voting his senior year.
Who is the best player in college football history to wear No. 5? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/1XeQM5hTTC
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) May 5, 2020
Looking at their list, sure, everyone is a rather modern player with both Edgerrin James and Donovan McNabb ending their college careers in 1998 being the oldest players listed. They don’t however say a word about there being a year or era requirement to decide.
So, isn’t there a certain Heisman Trophy winner from Notre Dame that is missing from this list?
I get that Paul Hornung is considered by many to be among the most-overrated players in the history of the NFL. When you hear his name plenty immediately argue against his bust being in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
He’s also the only player to ever win a Heisman Trophy despite playing on a losing team, doing so in 1956. The quarterback ran for all of 420 yards that season while throwing for 917 more with three touchdown passes, good for the second most total yards in the nation that season (1337).
Hornung beat out Johnny Majors of Tennessee and Tom MacDonald of Oklahoma, who actually received more first place votes that season. However, isn’t it a little strange to have a number five from a school mentioned as the best to wear a number when the same school produced an actual Heisman winner?
Just a thought.
For the record – the correct answer is Reggie Bush, even if USC isn’t currently allowed to claim him.
Lonzo Ball celebrates Cinco De Mayo, Taco Tuesday with shoutout to LeBron James
Lonzo Ball took part in the Taco Tuesday/Cinco De Mayo mash-up this week and was sure to share his meal with LeBron James.
With Cinco De Mayo and Taco Tuesday each landing on the same day this week, many athletes took the chance to celebrate the day on social media. Lonzo Ball was one of those active on Instagram, uploading a series of videos to his Instagram story.
The stories showed Ball with friend Anthony Salazar enjoying some Mexican cuisine on Tuesday.
The first video tags LeBron James, Ball’s former Laker teammate. James himself has been an avid and popular partaker in Taco Tuesday and he certainly participated in Tuesday’s edition on Cinco De Mayo.
If you thought LeBron wasn't going to acknowledge Taco Tuesday on Cinco de Mayo just because we're all quarantined, think again pic.twitter.com/5yV49vGS5q
— Harrison Faigen (@hmfaigen) May 6, 2020
James also shared the Instagram story Ball tagged him in on his own Instagram story as well.
Ball and James have remained close since the former was dealt from Los Angeles to New Orleans. Most memorably, Ball appeared at Zion Williamson’s Summer League debut and embraced James on his way to his seat, showing the strong bond the two had built during their season together with the Lakers.
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Migos samples LeBron James ‘Taco Tuesday’ video for new track
Migos sampled one of LeBron James’ original Taco Tuesday Instagram videos for a new single they released this week.
In case you’ve ever wondered what would happen if one of LeBron James’ famous Taco Tuesday videos was turned into a song, Quavo, Offset, and Takeoff from Migos have given a realization to that imagination. One day before Cinco de Mayo, the Migos turned one of LeBron’s first Taco Tuesday videos into a hook of its own.
Migos released a new single on Monday, just ahead of Cinco de Mayo, entitled “Taco Tuesday,” that riffs off of a video that LeBron took with his family at the dinner table, involving all of his kids and his wife Savannah. The video already has 230k views on YouTube in less than a day.
LeBron’s former Cleveland Cavaliers teammate Kevin Love was also inspired by LeBron’s past Taco Tuesday content to create an Instagram of his mood for the day.
While LeBron will likely celebrate Taco Tuesday and Cinco de Mayo later today, he did announce that Barack Obama will be a guest on the “Graduate Together” program he is helping produce for the Class of 2020.
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Julio Cesar Chavez reflects on Cinco de Mayo fights and more
Julio Cesar Chavez spoke to host Jessie Vargas on a special holiday episode of the new Matchroom Boxing Spanish-language show “Peleamundo.”
Julio Cesar Chavez fought often in May – including on Cinco de Mayo weekend a number of times – and, he said, it always had special meaning for him.
The Mexican Hall of Famer, now 57, spoke at length with host Jessie Vargas on a special holiday episode of the new Matchroom Boxing Spanish-language show “Peleamundo” about that subject and more.
The episode will be available at 5 p.m. ET today on the Matchroom YouTube channel.
Among Chavez’s translated comments:
“It’s a very special day for all Mexicans,” Chavez said. “I fought many times in May representing all Mexicans. It’s something very, very special, something very beautiful feeling the love, the support from all the Mexican Americans that lived in the United States.
“Above all, the Mexicans, [they] truly are the ones who support other Mexicans who go and triumph in the United States. For them it’s something great that one can represent them. I always tried to represent them in the best way. Fortunately, I gained their respect, but above all, I won the love of the people. Nobody can take it away from me.
“They were great, they were huge for me because I always had the support of all the Mexicans that moved [to the U.S.]. I don’t even remember any more if I won or lost, I think I won more than I lost!
“The one thing I’m left with is with the joy that I gave to the Mexicans there, the euphoria with which they received me, they presented me, and they followed me. I always have that. …
“There are opponents that are complicated for us. The truth is that for me, Frankie Randall’s style was always complicated for me. Even in the third fight, because in the second fight, even though I beat him, the truth is that if it weren’t for the head butt no one knows how it would have gone for me because I was already really tired.
“Honestly in that fight, I had prepared like never before. My addiction was already very far along. But I stopped for a bit there because I had lost, I wanted to avenge my loss. I stopped a bit, despite the fact that my addiction was already very advanced. I stopped a bit, I tried to stop a bit in order to take back my title and that’s how it went. I think I went a bit too far, I prepared so well, that I went into the fight over-trained. In the second round, I felt that my arms were already falling.
“Fortunately, thank God, based on pure experience I took the fight. I had another fight against him in Mexico City where I already knew his style and there, I beat him more easily.”
Vargas also was joined by WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman.
Kevin Love’s hilarious ‘Taco Tuesday x Cinco de Mayo’ LeBron edit
Cleveland Cavaliers star Kevin Love put in a little work on Photoshop to celebrate Cinco de Mayo and his buddy LeBron James.
Perhaps you know what day it is. Considering the length of the quarantine, it wouldn’t be a problem if you didn’t. But just in case, Kevin Love is here to remind you what day it is, using his buddy LeBron James as an artistic muse. Love was inspired to create a graphic because Tuesday is a double-whammy of events: it’s both Cinco de Mayo and Taco Tuesday.
LeBron James has been busy announcing that president Barack Obama will be a speaker on the Graduate Together special he is helping put on for the class of 2020, Love brought the mood for today with a hilarious photoshop edit.
Obviously, Love will be enjoying the day and the excuse to have some tacos. And perhaps he will have some tequila as well. As for LeBron James, there are probably some healthy tacos and some Don Julio 1942 in his future.
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Eddie Hearn still confident Billy Joe Saunders will fight Canelo Alvarez
Promoter Eddie Hearn still believes that BJ Saunders will get his chance to face Canelo Alvarez, despite the coronavirus…
Not so fast.
Promoter Eddie Hearn says his charge Billy Joe Saunders still has “a deal in place” to face Canelo Alvarez in the summer, should health concerns allow it, despite a a recent report that Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin had agreed to terms on a third fight in September.
The projected Alvarez-Saunders title bout in May was never announced because of the ravaging effects of the coronavirus, which has upended sports programming around the globe.
“(Alvarez-Saunders) now depends when the sport begins again,” Hearn told Sky Sports. “Because that fight was supposed to take place on Cinco de Mayo. Now that’s definitely not happening.”
Hearn, ever the optimist, believes the fight can still happen if the coronavirus threat subsides considerably by the summer.
“Will boxing return in June, July?” he said. “If it does, then there’s every chance that Billy Joe will fight Canelo Alvarez during that period. And the date of the Golovkin fight will be pushed back.”
Saunders is a super middleweight titleholder, which means Alvarez (53-1-2, 36 KOs) would have an opportunity to win a legitimate title in a fourth division. He won what the WBA calls its “regular” 168-pound title when he stopped Rocky Fielding in 2018 but Boxing Junkie doesn’t recognize that belt.
One silver lining for Saunders (29-0, 14 KOs) is that he wouldn’t have to travel far should an Alvarez fight materialize.
“Right now Billy Joe is in Las Vegas training,” Hearn said. “We were supposed to have a press conference on Monday to announce the Canelo Alvarez fight, so he’s out there training with (trainer) Ben Davison and (junior welterweight titleholder) Josh Taylor, who just had his fight postponed from May 2.
“No one knows what they’re doing. It’s a moment where you got to stay focused, you’ve got to stay disciplined. I believe Billy Joe Saunders will fight Canelo Alvarez as long as the boxing schedule returns in the summer.”
Is Canelo Alvarez’s fight on May 2 now in jeopardy?
Canelo Alvarez’s Cinco de Mayo fight reportedly could be the next boxing event to be postponed because of the coronavirus threat.
Canelo Alvarez’s Cinco de Mayo fight could be the next boxing event to be postponed because of the coronavirus threat, according to ESPN Mexico.
Alvarez was expected to face super middleweight titleholder Billy Joe Saunders on May 2 in Las Vegas, although no announcement has been made. The sides reportedly have been ironing out final details but the pandemic has become a major factor.
“We’re taking it one day at a time,” Golden Boy Promotions’ Eric Gomez told ESPN. “We’re talking to the commission in Nevada, we’re talking to the MGM [Arena], state officials.”
The fight is only seven weeks away, meaning organizers will have to make a decision soon. However, they’re in a difficult position given the uncertainly of the crisis.
Sporting events worldwide have been postponed or canceled because of the spread of coronavirus. That includes a number of boxing events over the past the few days, both in the U.S. and around the world.
California officials have banned all combat sports until at least the end of March. Nevada reportedly has not taken that step.
Meanwhile, the NBA has suspended its season, the NCAA basketball tournaments have been canceled, Major League Baseball reportedly is considering postponing the start of its season and the list goes on.
The handlers of Alvarez and Saunders can opt for postponement, which would give them time to see how the threat plays out, but that also could impact Alvarez’s plans going forward. He reportedly was considering a third fight with Gennadiy Golovkin in September, another big boxing weekend because of Mexican Independence Day.
Alvarez last fought last Nov. 2, when he stopped Sergey Kovalev to win a light heavyweight title. Saunders knocked out Marcelo Esteban Coceres on Nov. 9.