{"id":28067,"date":"2025-10-29T04:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T04:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/28067\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T04:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T04:02:10","slug":"bulldog-breakdown-meet-fresno-state-footballs-michael-jordan-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/28067\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulldog Breakdown: Meet Fresno State Football&#8217;s Michael Jordan Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stephen Hicks Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/13436873_062823-kfsn-stephen-hicks-bio-img.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, October 29, 2025 3:37AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Bulldog Breakdown: Meet Fresno State Football's Michael Jordan Jr.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Can you guess who this Fresno State defensive lineman is named after?<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Can you guess who this Fresno State football player is named after?<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Senior defensive tackle Michael Jordan Jr. has been making plays for the Bulldogs&#8217; defense this season. He recorded a career high of four tackles against San Diego State on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;It got easier as I got older, once I got an ID and could prove that that was my name. Before it was always like &#8216;what&#8217;s your name?&#8217;, Michael Jordan&#8230; nobody believed me,&#8221; Michael Jordan Jr. said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He says his grandma from North Carolina did not name his dad after the Jumpman. So you can cross that guess out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The transfer from Northern Colorado got his start playing at Reedley College, where for two years in a row was named first-team all-conference.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, October 29, 2025 3:37AM Can you guess who this Fresno State defensive lineman is named after? FRESNO,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[21044,7129,112,114,113,742,7130,7131,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-28067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-21044","9":"tag-bulldog-breakdown","10":"tag-fresno","11":"tag-fresno-headlines","12":"tag-fresno-news","13":"tag-fresno-state","14":"tag-jeff-tedford","15":"tag-ring-of-honor","16":"tag-timely"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}