24 Hours ... With Melvin Gordon on Game Day

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IRVINE, Calif. — The first thing you notice when Melvin Gordon III emerges from his hotel room at the Marriott here in Orange County, where the Chargers stay on the night before home games, is the fan. It’s 8:10 a.m. Gordon’s Chargers and the 49ers are kicking off in a little more than five hours, and the Pro Bowl running back is lugging a hefty black electric fan with his overnight bag. “I can’t sleep without it,” he says. That goes back to his college days at Wisconsin, where he was a Heisman runner-up in 2014, before…