Hoop Dreams

e1pFit: 11 minutes a Day

The queen getting her steps in at the park back when...

Today, reading an article I stumbled across titled "11 minutes of daily exercise could have a positive impact on your health, large study shows" by Kristen Rogers of CNN Wellness. The site says she covers a range of topics from brain function, sleep, fitness, relationships, food additives, and more.

Here's some notes from the article:

11 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous intensity aerobic activity per day could lower your risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, etc. Aerobic activities including walking, dancing, running, jogging, cycling and swimming.

Study is from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, data from 196 studies, amounting to 30 million adult participants followed over 10 years. Results were published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

"To get up to 150 minutes of physical activity per week, find activities you enjoy. You are far more likely to engage in something you love doing than something you have to make yourself do." - Leana Wen, Emergency Physician, Public Health Professor George Washington University.

Source: Rogers, Kristen. "11 minutes of daily exercise could have a positive impact on your health, large study shows". CNN Health, Fitness. 2023, March 1st click here.

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2025 Preseason Fly Eagles Fly

Watching!!

Win or Learn

Photo by Kiel Leggere SOURCE

Jalen Hurts 2025

"You either win or you learn..." - Jalen Hurts

"The only goal is to win, but every week isn't going to produce a victory. When there are defeats, the correct approach is to learn from the setback and then flush that failure and turn it into success the following week. Losing should be a starting point to figure out what went wrong, make the corrections, and find victory the next time out." Jalen-isms: Appreciating and understanding the Jalen Hurts Way by Dave Spadaro SOURCE

A Champions Era Fly Eagles Fly 2025

How it started...1933.

Where we at now...Fly Eagles Fly.

A Champions Era.

The Original Eagle

Birthday Wishes 'The Original Eagle'

Back in the early 60s, our Dad had the chance to go to a Philadelphia Eagles game in Franklin Field. Decades later, he'd raise his sons as dedicated Eagle fans beginning with the era of Randall Cunningham and on after. While LII was a dream come true, LIX has gotta be the best. A birthday wish delivered on my father's born day with family in company. Excited about the season ahead, but man, a lot to hold on to and remember about New Orleans. Fly Eagles Fly! E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles!!!!!!!!! Happy 71st Dad.

February 9th, 2025

Super Bowl Champions LIX 2025

What a night. A new season is about to start and I'm still looking back smiling. Jalen Hurts and the Birds delivered a Super Bowl on my father's birthday. I'm never going to forget that. We want to change the date again, but man...never going to forget this one. Ever. Happy 71st birthday Dad!!!!!!! He go back to Franklin Field as a kid.

February 9th, 2025! New Orleans!!!

Still We Rise El Paso's Black Experience

A highlight from the year was the opportunity to experience this display at the El Paso Museum of History. Took several pics to revisit what I learned that day reading the displays. Til' the next time, would be wonderful for Still We Rise to become a permanent fixture in our community with an opportunity to grow and continue documenting so many stories. Would love to see a section for the history of our community's Black martial artists.

The entrance...

Douglass Grammar & High School (El Paso)

Someone I'd love to learn more about. Poet, Bernice Love Wiggins.

Shout out to the Douglass Dragons!

Made me think of my grandmother.

UTEP Miners! Shout out to Willie Cager.

40 minutes of hell. Hey Coach Rus.

For all the middle school students that go to Bobby Joe Hill.

Spirit of 66'.

Our military community.

A bigger picture of Still We Rise exhibit. 

Texas.

A lovely day.

The writing below is included on the Still We Rise exhibit print available at the museum's entrance.

"Still We Rise El Paso's Black Experience reflects on past and present African Americans in El Paso. Like many African American communities in the United States, much of their history has remained underrepresented. The arrival of El Paso's black community begun with the arrival of the railroad and soon blossomed after that. In a few decades, their presence was known within the South side neighborhoods and grew to encompass its very own Black Wall Street at the intersections of Alameda and Piedras. A thriving community flourished with churches, restaurants, barbershops, beauty salons, and multiple other businesses that catered to a still segregated Texas. With this empowerment and validity, many key figures gained momentum in the Civil Rights Movement which later made El Paso a leader in integration and equal rights in Texas. It was until the Federal Aid Highway Act that built the current Interstate to where a majority of businesses and residences were demolished. Despite the loss of space, the community continued to thrive through their churches, community centers, outreach groups, and led to many citizens holding big roles within civic and social realms.

The exhibition gathers personal memories, objects and sense of place from local African American leaders and gives an inside look of resistance and resiliency through the 20th century here in El Paso."

#e1puzzle

Introducing #e1puzzle with our Queen Luz

Last year, with a 7th grade reading class I teach we looked at an article about a 9-year old Hailey Richman who started a nonprofit group to give out puzzles designed to help people who have memory loss or other problems. The article talked about a program called Puzzles to Remember and her mission to give jigsaw puzzles to nursing homes and other places that care for people struggling with Alzheimer’s. Shortly after we also watched a powerful documentary titled Alive Inside, a Story of Music & Memory.

The lesson made me think about my mom who survived an emergency surgery over 25 years ago to remove a benign brain tumor when she was pregnant with my youngest brother. The ordeal going from an emergency surgery that left her with paralysis after she suffered a stroke, staying alive to give birth a few months later, and having surgery again after that to replace part of her skull, required time to adapt as a mother and wife to a new way of living. In that time, I grew into my early adulthood watching her stay mind strong with a love as a mother that never waivered from even before when I was a child. In recent years, we started coloring to give my mom a chance to work on her hand-eye coordination and to provide some contact with books that allow us to bring color to things we’re interested in. After learning about Richman’s work from the middle school reading class I teach, we also stepped into the world of puzzles. It’s a real cool way to pass the time together while listening to music, news and connecting pieces of a puzzle that you have to read over and over again. I grew up during a time when puzzles were far more popular, but even back then I never actually took the time to piece one together.

To date, we’ve completed two puzzles. Our first was a 500 piece puzzle of Succulent Spectrum flowers that we had matted for the wall, and a 300 piece puzzle that I call “Animal Planet”. We’re currently working on another puzzle of plants that my baby brother bought for my mother on Christmas, and I got a surprise 500 piece puzzle coming up for the off season, Fly Eagles Fly. During the summer, I’m planning to create one that I’d like to customize as I’ve learned there are ways to create your own puzzles too.

I’ve come to love this past time for the benefits that I’ve read it has for the mind, memory and overall brain health. I also love the time it allows for me to spend with my mother as it requires our full attention away from that distractions of technology, TV, and other things that don’t allow us to accomplish something cool together and talk. I share it also, to pass on ideas for how we can stay connected with siblings and introduce young people to games that allow them time off screens and around people they care about.

Til’ the next puzzle piece, here are a few cool shots of our puzzles, more of whic which you can also find clicking on the hashtag #e1puzzle.

Eagles 2022-23!

#FlyEaglesFly 2022-23 Schedule

Alright, it's officially time to make room on the calendar for football season!

RISE

Screening RISE #e1pTheatre

This is our next watch, but it's gotta be me and my brothers. All of us! 

#AntetokounmpBros

 

SHOWTIME #every1reads

SHOWTIME #every1reads

The latest read. Once upon a time, the household I grew up in was a Laker's household. Out the gate, as a Child of the 80's my first favorite team was the Magic Johnson Lakers. I started getting into trading cards towards the later part of the decade and my collection centered around Magic. Video games started to usher in an imaginative control of personas like Magic, Bird and Jordan, lighting up a Hoop Dream in any kid that fell in love with the game. When Magic retired, so did my connection to L.A. It would later surface once my baby brother Isaiah came of age to accompany his big brothers to city league, high school and collegiate basketball games. Kobe's Lakers became the battery in his back that I'd removed from mine in 91'. Since then, I've always followed a team with an exception to the preliminary years of going to college during the first years of new millennium. Teams like the Seattle Supersonics with Payton & Kemp, the Sprewell Knicks, the Big 3 Celtics, and the Dynasty that was born from Curry, Klay, and Dray at Golden State. My fandom just developed into a love for the stories of the game. I started watching Legacy the True Story of the LA Lakers and to fill in the gaps decided to focus my next Sports read around Jeff Pearlman's Showtime, Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s. It's been a great read so far, although it's slowed down how I follow the documentary since the book got so many details I want to picture before seeing them referenced throughout the film.

This book is the beginnings of a Hoop Dream for me. #SHOWTIMEla

Philadelphia Eagles

Philadelphia Eagles

Here’s hoping for continued success in the NFC East! #FlyEaglesFly!

Our link of the week right here dedicated to Jalen Hurts click here

Sending a shout out to Gianluca aka The Serpent aka King Luca of our Cobra Chess Club for bringing this gift home after visiting Philly to check out his favorite quarterback Tom Brady. The featured photograph is from where he was at the Lincoln Financial Field. Had to laminate this work of art promoting the game. Check!

Hoop Dreams 2021

Hoop Dreams 2021

A shot of a few members of the Hoop Dreams squad at the House of Hoopz this Fall.

Shout out to Coach Joshy and the squad!

We see you Lil’ Liz.

The Kaepernick Effect

The Kaepernick Effect
Taking a Knee, Changing the World
by Dave Zirin

Our read for the weeks ahead. The Kaepernick Effect, Taking a Knee, Changing the World.

Check for it and pass the word.

To learn more about the book here are some interviews and discussions I’ve been tuned in to…

Hard Knock Radio Conversation with Davey D

What is The Kaepernick Effect? A Conversation with Eddie Glaude

Other resources connected to this text:

Serve Your City

Will update as we come across other resources! Shout out to the Edge of Sports and everyone connected to the stories featured in this text. Alright, we’re reading…

El Paso Giving Day

El Paso Giving Day
Basketball in the Barrio
October 21st, 2021

This year’s El Paso Giving Day will be held on October 21st, 2021.

To give, please check in on the 21st of October and donate at the link below.

More information on the three decade history of Basketball in the Barrio at the link!

Mark your calendars folks! Thank you…

El Paso Giving Day Basketball in the Barrio

Brooklyn Saints Documentary

 We Are the Brooklyn Saints
e1pTheatre Documentary

A great movie about the impact of coaches in the community and how it brings family together. Loved this documentary. Encourage everybody to check it out and to show love to coaches in your community that are brining up the next generation of athletes and scholars. There are a lot of threads here to sports culture in New York, the challenges of coaching for community, building up self esteem, creating opportunities early for kids, creating safety nets through sports from the perils of U.S. society, and thinking about the impact when city groups don’t support children’s connection to outlets like sports. There’s a powerful connection to coaches as mentors, inspirations, teachers, guides, etc. presented in this documentary.

The beginning was real powerful thinking about what Brooklyn Saints Co-Founder Coach Shon said…”We used what they call P-A-L. Police Athletic Leagues. NO MORE! They used to leave the schools open for activities. All of those programs are cut. This is where we step in.”

Coach Puma adds, “We just try to put you in position where you can better yourself in life. It don’t have to be with sports. Doctor, a lawyer, it could be any one of those things. As log as we get you a free education, we did our job.”

Support this film right here, support your local athletic programs and push folks that are in a position to fund or cut to make more programming a priority for children in your community. Especially in spaces where money determines who plays. Much love to the Brooklyn Saints.

You can follow the Brooklyn Saints on Twitter @BrooklynSaints8

As posted at every1plays.org click here

El Barrio Sports Club

Here's a throwback #e1pWWW post from June 2015. For the first time #e1pStory shares the audio conversation with Coach Cruz that went down that day. I've also included a few photographs below. More are available at the Twitter and Facebook links below. Shout out to our Segundo Barrio families and the El Barrio Sports Club which is coming up on its 50 year anniversary.

Introducing El Barrio Sports Club in El Paso, Texas Cruz Morales, Jr. post every1plays.org web Archive June 28, 2015

Introducing Cruz Morales, Jr... born and raised in El Paso's South side, and Class of 88' Bowie Bear Alumni by way of Beall Elementary and Guillen Middle... he is also a proud Gulf War Veteran of the Air Force.  For the past 15 years, Cruz has been facilitating sporting events, including basketball tournaments on the corner of Raynor and Findley for children, youth, and adults.

Playoffs for the El Barrio men's basketball league are underway through June as fourteen teams compete to try and make it to the finals. Over the past couple years, my younger brothers have been participating in the adult men's b-ball league.

We got the chance to talk to Cruz about the sports club and its history.  For Cruz it goes back to the gang rivalries that disconnected youth from each other and the community.  Living in a historically under served and low-income area only added to the struggles of gang involved youth reconnecting to something positive in the community. This motivated Cruz, who understood their circumstances and today is the director for the El Barrio Sports Club.  For Cruz being able to bridge the gap through sports amongst a generation of kids who's parents were once gang rivals, is what Cruz is most proud of.  With support from city representatives such as Courtney Niland and neighborhood collaboration, the El Barrio Sports Club is about creating affordable and accessible opportunities for children, youth, and adults to play, compete, and connect with each other in a family friendly environment.

And it's not only basketball.  Cruz helps coordinate volleyball tournaments (currently planning for September) and soccer for both males and females, children to adults.  For more information you can email Cruz Morales, Jr. cmorales@dekko.com or call at (915) 858-1915 ext. 69132.

Got a few more photographs that we'll share on social media soon, check out twitter.com/every1plays and facebook.com/e1p44

Peace!

-Lee

Photograph and write up by Lee Rhyanes*

El Paso's Chapin Huskies 2021

This is what stamping your hard earned ticket into the Sweet 16 looks like…

Shout out to the Chapin Student Media click here…El Paso, stand up for The North!!

Stay tuned in as your El Paso Chapin Huskies make their way to the Sweet 16 visit chapinhuskiesathletics.com

As posted at every1plays.org click here