2Ten Sports Magazine March 2023 Special Edition

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ByDr.MariannePinkston

P.12 Nevil:theshadow”Shed: AlivingLegend

ByAuroraElisaDeiri

P.24 DavidVela fromtheSouthsideofSanAntonio toprofessionalfootball

ByRjaygomez

Boxing’Solympichopeful

bycassieparsley

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Written By Marianne Pinkston, MD Integrative Doctor Weight loss, nutrition and fitness specialist Drpbetterlife.com

Nutrition in athletes is a vast topic. The differences lie in the level of training and goals of athletes, both professional or amateur, or in those just looking to improve health and body composition and lose weight. We have defined succeeding at weight loss as the loss of pounds on a scale It is about body composition. Body composition is becoming lean and lowering fat percentage while building muscle. The desire for low weight and excellent body shape, and looking fit is not entirely about the number on a scale but in body composition to build muscle and burn fat In the past, most people looked to calorie reduction as the sole means of achieving weight loss, and even though weight loss is the primary goal, how we read the numbers and follow what is happening in our physiology is by far misunderstood and all too important. People reduce their calorie intake far too low, believing the less you eat, the more your body will burn fat. The truth is when your body is hungry, if you haven’t supplied the right fuel for your body, you will burn muscle and not fat. You must take in calories to burn calories, and the process of building muscle and burning fat is in the percentage of protein, fat, and carbohydrates consumed over a days intake and each meal and should also be timed around workouts and sleep. A slight calorie deficit is needed, but if you reduce them too far, you will burn muscle. Muscle drives your body to increase metabolism and burn excess fat. The next myth to burst is very low to no carb diets. There are so many fad diets, especially in the low-carb to the no-carb world, and although there are some medical reasons to use Keto diets or other newsworthy diets, these diets are difficult to follow and do more damage than good. If losing 20lbs in a month sounds healthy to you after a severely restrictive diet, or you are looking for a shot, pill, vitamin, drink, etc., that will drive you to your goal weight in anything less than 8-12 months, then you are as far away from successful and permanent weight loss as winning the lotto The misinformation available to us in this day and age of technology with unnecessary supplement expenditures and incorrect advice at our fingertips on the internet, in social media posts, podcasts, books, and e-books, written and published by self-professed coaches and authorities that are anything but reliable and correct. People who are desperate to lose weight are huge targets and victims in the billiondollar industry of misinformation. To tackle this significant issue, I am developing a series of articles helpful to all stages of goals, from weight loss to athletic performance. To create a strong, fit, and healthy body, we must re-examine the concept of calories in calories out as an isolated topic for general weight loss and expand and define the idea of “macros” to design the optimal athletic body or weight. Stop describing your efforts as “weight loss” and start determining “body composition ” Body composition is still weight loss, but it encompasses muscle building and fat burning by a well-fed and efficient machine.

Macros are short for macronutrients you’re familiar with- protein, carbohydrates, and fats and the distribution or percentages of these macronutrients are crucial to the development of your weight goal or body composition goals.

We have a daily baseline caloric need to keep us alive. The calories needed to breathe and exist, adding in our usual daily activity level from sedentary to very active and calculating daily

Nevil “The Shadow” Shed Basketball Hall of Fame

Nevil“TheShadow”Shed:ALivingLegend

ByAuroraElisaDeiri

There’s a good reason why the Road to Glory has never been paved with gold or nicknamed “Easy Street,” and the answer is obvious. We appreciate most of all that which we fight hardest for, work or practice the longest hours for and strive for with our entire body, heart, mind and soul. We pray for just a chance at glory, for even one opportunity to leave behind a legacy that lasts, whether it’s because of our love for our friends and families, our life’s work or our humanitarian giving to others and care for our communities. Nevil Shed has the right to say that his own Road to Glory was paved with all of that and more. He has seen it all in his 80 blessed years on this earth: blissful love and painful losses, those that could be worked with and those that needed more time to find the way, the winners and losers in every game, the good times and thebad- but through it all, Nevil never gave up. He didn’t quit. He was determined and he persevered. In the beginning, Nevil was a child with many dreams, like all of us. He grew up in New York City, playing on the courts and running around in the rough streets of the Bronx. What made his path different was that he was blessed with faith, strength, athletic ability, great height and true grit. He sometimes suffered in the face of challenges, but always kept on pushing through the pain, as he still does tothis very day. Some things never change.

The Road to Glory

As he stretched and grew in many ways, Nevil knew that basketball would always be an important part of his life, but he had no way of knowing how far it would take him. He went all the way to the White House, Hollywood and the Basketball Hall of Fame.

When people were making racist comments in the 60’s, calling him names, shouting at his teammates simply because of the color of their skin, Nevil wanted to fight back or at least say something inturn. Nevil had friends from every race and socioeconomic background. could be for anAfricanAmerican male at the time, but had no idea could get. There were times when the team had to leave quickly after game, instead of sleeping at a motel, because of discrimination due to order to avoid any potential violence.

He knew how bad things how much worse it an out of town segregation or in

Don Haskins started coaching at TWC in 1961, coming from Dumas to El Paso to become Head Coach for the Miners team, shortly before Nevil came along as a

freshman in 1962 “The Bear” turned the team into winners with a strong defensive strategy In 1966, Coach Haskins gave Nevil some of the best advice ever, after hearing some of the terrible comments made during the game, when Nevil was tempted to respond, asking Nevil, “Is that who you are?” Of course, Nevil replied, “No...” and Haskins said, “Then go out there and show them who you really are!”

“We won that game,” Nevil recalls now, “and got some respect. Later on, when we won the championship game against Kentucky, things finally began to change.” The Miners made basketball history as the first college championship team to “have an all-black starting lineup against the all-whiteUniversity of Kentucky Wildcats,” in the NCAA Title Game played on March 19, 1966 at Cole Field House in College Park, Maryland. This starting lineup matchup was unheard of at the time, incredibly controversial and later became the subject of a Hollywood film called Glory Road, making most ofAmerica aware of this part of our history for the first time. Nevil earned the nickname, “The Shadow” for sticking so closely to his man. Both teams went into the finals with records of 27 Wins and only 1 Loss, but TWC was leading by 3 points at the half and the Miners won the game 72- 65, with over 14,000 people in attendance.

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Former President Barack Obama mentioned the TWC championship Miners in his congratulatory speech in 2015, honoring the 50th anniversary of the UTEP Miners. The Texas Western College became part of the University of Texas academic system several years ago. In 2007, Nevil “The Shadow” Shed and the rest of his championship teammates were one of only 10 teams to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Nevil wears his Hall of Fame jacket with pride, looking everybit the celebrity, but he is always humble and gracious. Coach Don Haskins, Nevil and a few others even made it onto a Wheaties box, a special honor that matched perfectly with the team colors. I was lucky enough to see Nevil gracing that box many years ago, when we honored him at the Sports Legends Charity Golf tournament at the Dominion Country Club, and it felt like the box should be kept in a glass box under lock and key! Nevil has seen a lifetime of precious souvenirs, more than most of us can even imagine, but the life lessons he got from playing basketball were the most precious.

At6’8”, alean185pounds,ForwardNevilShed#33wasdraftedintotheNBAin1967by theBostonCeltics.Hislifelongfriendandteammate,thelateBobbyJoeHillwas#14forthe Miners,andit’sittingthattogethertheywerehonoredinElPasowithstreetsnamedafter eachof them.YoungathletestodaycanstandatthecornerofNevilShedStreetandBobby JoeHillDrive,tothankthemformakingadifferenceinracialequityforathletes.

Bobby Joe, a guard from Michigan, was 5’11” and the leading scorer, with 20 points in that famous championship game, but he went undrafted in the 1966 NBA draft, remained in El Paso and married his college sweetheart,Tina Malachi, in 1968. He went on to become an Executive with El Paso Natural Gas, and tragically passed away in 2002, at age 59. He didn’t live to see the actor Derek Luke portray him in the film.

Nevil Shed Street in El Paso, at the intersection with Bobby Joe Hill Drive.

President George W. Bush invited the entire 1965-1966 TWC Miners NCAA Championship Team to visit the White House and watch the Glory Road film with him and his wife. ActorAl Shearer played Nevil Shed for the film and has become a good friend to Nevil and his wife Melba. “Not everything they show in the movie is exactly like it happened,” Nevil was quick to remind me. “I was never beaten up in a restroom at a diner, but the writers did that just to show what it was like. People were going through that kind of thing every day, but that particular incident did not happen to me.”

NevilShedwithactorAlShearerfromtheWaltDisneyPictures filmabouttheteamthatchangedeverythinginGloryRoad.

Nevil Shed eventually moved to SanAntonio, Texas, where he met his wife Melba, at the downtown YMCA. She hired him and he worked his way into her heart. Melba is the perfect partner for Nevil and he fell in love. The couple met in 1989. She made his life complete and the two have been almost inseparable, sharing a strong foundation of good values, ethics and morals, raising a beautiful family together. He started working

HestartedworkingatUTSAin1981asanassistantcoachandretiredin2006asaProgramCoordinator, becominganOmegafraternitybrotherwhilethere.

Nevil has worked as Camp Director of Spurs Youth Basketball Camps for children ages 6-18 every summer for more than 37 years. That’s where I first met him in the summer

of 2003. I will never forget Shed’s first words to my son, as we registered for the camp , “We can work with you, big guy.”

I was more than a little star struck, because I knew who Coach Shed was, but he didn’t feel like a stranger then and hasn’t been one ever since. Children from all over the world come to learn basketball skills and dev elop as well rounded individuals.As Nevil likes to say at the end of every 5 day camp, “We never say goodbye; we always say to be continued….”

Nevil Shed also worked as anABA Coach & GM. I could never have guessed that in 2008, I would be fortunate enough to become the majority owner of a Men’s Pro Basketball team in the newABA and that Nevil Shed would one day come to coach the team with his good friend and fellow coach, Cesar Cervantes. Coach Shed helped the athletes of Texas FUEL to strive for a new level of excellence, inspiring them to play as a team and look out for one another. He and his wife Melba have always treated their ABA team members just like family.

In 2013, theABA honored Nevil Shed at the Sports Legends Charity Golf Tournament in San Antonio at the prestigious Dominion Country Club, where Texas FUEL team members golfed with local foursomes. It was there that we learned what a great motivational speaker Nevil is. His experience speaks volumes, with life lessons that give hope for change, especially important to the young athletes of today

Nevil coached for the CBS Great Day SA morning show’s Great Day Bowl in 2013 & 2014. He became the Texas Fuel team’s General Manager at the end of 2013, just before SanAntonio hosted the 5thAnnualABA Global Games with Japan for 2 days in February of 2014. In 2015, Nevil went on to coach in theABL FIBA development league for Lonestar Law.

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WewishNevilShedaHappy80thBirthday! ThankyouforeverythingyoudointheSanAntonioCommunityandforyourlifetime contributionstotheSportofBasketball. “Tobecontinued….”

David Vela

S.A.I.S.DSportsHallOfFame(2018)

TexasStateuniversitySportsHallOfFame(2019)

NationalHispanicSportsHallOfFame(2009)

FromtheSouthside ofSanAntonioto ProfessionalFootball

I first met David Vela when I was 8 years old. David was a summer counselor at the St. Leo’s SANYO Program. He was the counselor of the older boys, age 14, and as I was always causing trouble and starting fights with my age group, the administrators felt it best to send me to David, hoping that he would intimidate me and disicpline me. As it turned out, I liked it there and ended up staying with David for the rest of the summer. David was a great counselor and good at listening to me, and he helped me be more disciplined. Little did anyone know of the great things that David would go on to do, and that he would become the Pride of the South Side.

David was first introduced to the sport of football by his father who use to play himself. His mother and father would encourage and push David and his two brothers, Ray (older) and Paul (younger) to go out and play outside. He remembers playing ball in the streets and parks of the south side way past dark.

His football career began at Harris Middle School where he first began playing team football in 7th & 8th grade. In 7th grade he and his teammates won the City Championship, and in 8th grade they made it to the Championship game but lost.

He then moved on to Burbank High School. While there David played and lettered in football, basketball and track. He really started to understand that he had a real passion and talent for football and began to work and practice hard. All his hard work and training began to payoff as David was quickly becoming a local star and standout on the football field. His senior year he lead the team to a 10-0 record, and a shot at playing for a State Championship. In 1977 they played in the state finals but lost. David was recognized as an All City wide receiver, and began drawing attention from colleges, but most wanted him to run track for their school. He was pretty darn fast as he would run the 4-40 in about 4.7 seconds.

One college really stood out to David and that was Southwest Texas State. That is the school that really took the time out to come and meet with him and his parents. David recalls coach Jim Wacker and defensive coach Mike Sullivan, coming to his home and telling him and his parents that they really wanted him to play football for their program, and they were offering him a full scholarship. At that time, David his parents didn’t understand what that meant. They explained to them that he would be able to go to college at no cost to the family, and that created such excitment as no one in David’s family had ever attended college.

Coach Mike Sullivan ended up playing a very big role in David’s football career, as he saw his potential and talent and helped bring out the best David had to

give.

When David first arrived at Southwest Texas State, other players began to arrive also. He noticed that they were coming from all over the state of Texas and were from much bigger power house schools. He began to wonder, why him? What was he doing there? He knew that his parents were very proud of him and didn’t want to let them down as there was no way his family could pay for him to go to college. His parents were hard working people and would work more than 50 hours a week just so he and his siblings could have what little they had. David decided he was going to work harder than anyone else so that he could play football and stay in college. He noticed he was one of only three Hispanics on the team. Shortly after team practices began the other two quit the team and headed back home and left him to be the only Hispanic on the team at the time. He soon found out that attending class and playing football was very challenging, and how hard it was going to be to maintain grades and play ball. David would turn to his girlfriend at the time (who would later become his wife) for help, she was attending Our Lady of the Lake College in San Antonio She turned out to be a big blessing for David as he would visit as often as he could and she would help him study and stay focused. They got married in 1982 and David says that from his junior year on, it was his wife that carried them, as she wanted him to focus on his scholarship and playing ball. He recalls “it was a lot harder than he thought” being a student, athlete, and now a husband. His sophomore year his team won their first Lone Star Conference Championship. They would go on to win the championship again for the next two years, for a total of three Lone Star Championships.

David’s junior year is what really began to get him recognized as an outstanding football player, he had a record breaking year as a wide receiver. He credits a writer, David Flores, from the San Antonio Express News for really helping him get noticed, as Mr. Flores was always following his college career and writing about him . He remembers that after each interview they would have, Mr. Flores would tell David “to stick with it and tell him that good things would come to him.”

His senior year proved to be a much tougher year, as now that he had just come off a great junior year he found that a lot of attention was on him now. It was at this point that he realized that he could not take anything for granted and would need to work harder than ever, as he was determined to remain a starter for the team and be an impactful player. David’s junior and senior year the school won back to back Division II National Championships, his junior year his team went 13-1 and his senior year they went 14-0. He became an all American college player.

David began to get letters from NFL teams letting him know of their interest of drafting him. Playing in the NFL had never been a thought to David before, but because of all his hard work and determination on the football field, it was beginning to become a reality. He got invited to an NFL combine, where only 250 of the best college players were asked to come. He recalls showing up to the combine and seeing all those players from major Division I schools, and he being from a small Texas school and realizing his hard work had paid off. At the combine he was asked to race against another player and he drew, Darrell Green, the NFL hall of famer (from the then Washington Redskins) who was known to be very fast. He did loose to Darrell, but says he ran the fastest he had ever run before, which drew him a lot of attention from NFL teams. He began getting calls from teams with their intentions on drafting him.

He was drafter in the later rounds as a free agent by the Los Angeles Raiders, and remembers getting the phone call from the legendary owner of the team, Al Davis, welcoming him to the team. He would go on to play for the Raiders for four years then he went on to play with the USFL and play for his hometown team, the San Antonio Gunslingers. David says that the opportunity to play for the Gunslingers reminded him of his highschool days, as they were playing in the same stadium he used to play in, but the competion in the USFL was much tougher and the crowd was much bigger. Being back home and playing professional football was a very exciting time in his life but he never forgot where he came from and never thought of himself of being better than anyone else. David has always been a very thankful and humble person even til this day. He always reminds everyone that he meets that he feels that he has been blessed to have been given the opportunities he has had.

David’s football career has gotten him inducted into the SAISD Athletics Sports Hall of Fame (2018), the Texas State University Sorts Hall of Fame (2019), and the National Hispanic Sports Hall of Fame (2009). David says that playing football has opened many doors, that growing up on the Southside of San Antonio, he never imagined would have been opened for him and his family.

Today you can find David giving back to young and upcoming athletes as he is coaching at Central Catholic High School as an assistant coach to the wide receivers, and a coach for the sprinter and field events track team.

David has two children, a son, David Vela Jr., and a daughter, Analisa Vela. He and his daughter share father and daughter bonding time together as she works with him in the athletic department.

David has been married to his wife, Irene Dominguez-Vela for 40 years, and they are getting ready to celeberate their 41st year anniversay this June. He says that having Irene by his side through his journey has really been the biggest blessing of his life.

A new chapter in David’s life has just begun, as he has been given small roles in filmaking and now he has a new title, Actor.

Boxing’s Olympic Hopeful

My name is Cassie Parsley. I have been boxing for 3 years with dreams of competing with Team USA. I have 21 amateur bouts,I am ranked #8 in the US, and I am a 2x San Antonio Golden Glove Champion.

I train at the: Title Boxing Club in North Austin, under Coach–Ricco Spencer

My boxing team is called Dead Game Boxing.Abasic understanding of what “deadgame” means is to never give up, no matter what the situation is.Always keep fighting!

Iwasalwaysveryathletic.Iplayedsoccer,basketball,andtrackthroughoutmylifeupuntiltheendofhigh school.Ialwaysenjoyedplayingthosesports,andwhileImayhavethoughtIlovedthem,whenIfoundboxing,I realizedIneverdid.WhenIstartedboxing,itabsolutelysparkedsomethingIhadneverfeltbefore,andthefire keepsbuilding.WhileIloveboxingandcompetingformanyreasons,mystorystartedin2020ataroughtimein mylife.Iwasveryoverweight,andinamentallyandphysicallyabusiverelationshipwhenIwasintroducedto boxing.IstartedtrainingONLYtoloseweightandlearntoprotectmyself,andintheprocesslefttheabuseand lost45LBS.Duringthattime,Ifellinlovewithboxing.Boxingmademefeelstrong,powerful,andbeautiful, mentallyandphysically.Iturnedsomethingterribleintosomethingamazing,andIwouldnevertakeanyofit backbecauseitledmeintothegymandtookmewhereIamtoday.

My coach has been with me since the beginning, and when I say I have come a long way, that is an understatement. I had never even thrown a punch or been anywhere near a punching bag before I walked into the gym. My coach has built me from the ground… and I really mean the ground, all the way to where I am now. Starng out only being there to teach me how to protect myself, quickly turned into “how much do I have to weigh for you to let me compete?” I am sure he has heard someone ask that a million mes, but once I lost the weight, he knew I was serious and from then on, I have been going nonstop. He believed in me before I believed in myself, and he pushes me harder and harder every day. I would not be where I am without all the me and effort he has spent giving me the knowledge he has.

Formegettingintheringisn’tdifficult,Ibattlewithmyselfeverysingleday. Itstartsat5AM,orsometimeseven 3AMwhenIgetupformyfirstworkout,itwouldbeeasytostayinbedandsleepin,butIgetupanyways,andI winthatbattle.Thenwhenitstimetoeatmymealsfortheday,ohhowIwouldlovetohaveaburgerandfries, butIcookandIeatwhatIhaveprepped...andIwinthatbattle.Fromgoingoutsidetorun,thenbacktothegym forthe2ndor3rdtimeinaday,Ihavetofightmyselfandchoosetogetupanywaysnomatterthepainorthe sorenessIamfeelingbecausethat’swhatittakes.Thenwhenitcomestimetostepinthering,Idon’thaveto wonderifItrainedhardenoughforthisfight,IknowIdideverythingIneededtodotoprepare.Iwillneverlose, becauseevenifIdon’tgetthedecisionthatday,IhavelearnedsomethingfromthegirlIamintheringwith, andithasmademebetter.

Amateursdonotmakeanymoneytocompete,andtraveling forweeklongcompetitionsisfarfromcheap,so work,sponsorsandfundraisersaretheonlywayIamabletocontinuetotravelaroundtheUStocompeteat thehighestlevel.

Ihavemanygoals,butmydreamistobeapartofTeamUSA,aninvitationtotheOlympictrainingcenter.Ihave foughtagainstmanygirlswhohavealreadyachievedthis,andIamnext.Iamcurrentlyranked#8inmydivision, andthisyearIamplanningonmovinguptheladder,asthetop2or3rankedfightersgetaninvitetotheOlympic trainingcenter Iwillcontinuetokeepfightingthebestcompetition,untilIamthebestcompetition.

March 2023 MY Upcoming Schedule is as follows

• Golden Gloves State Championships

- This is an advancing tournament, if I win, I get to go to naonal Golden Gloves

March 11th – 18th

1040 N Henderson St,Fort Worth,TX 76107

If I place within the top 2 girls of this tournament, I will qualify to compete at the Olympic

• USA Boxing Naonal Qualifier trials.

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March 18 th – 25th

Huntinton Place1 Washington Blvd, Detroit, MI 48226