Mexico is launching its very first professional football league (the American variety, that is).

There was a moment during the third round of last week’s Barclays Championship when the CBS commentators seemed to hesitate when they saw an unfamiliar name at the top of the leaderboard.

Another round in the fierce Mexico-Puerto Rico boxing rivalry will play out at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on November 21 when Guadalajara’s Saul “Canelo” Alvarez takes on WBC middleweight world champion Miguel Cotto