Byway(s) Sportsmanship: Human

A Story by Abishai100

Narrated 'account' of college-athletics broadcast 'buzz' for capitalism-culture image of Western honor(s).

A 'love-letter' to college-sports TV inspired (loosely) by Blue Chips (Nick Nolte).

DISCLAIMER: This work of culture-drama offers no commercial/formal ties to Duke-Indiana or the Final-Four tournament (USA) and all images used herein comprise a purely 'personal' exercise in social creativity (for 'open' review).

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I'd been performing a special competition class 'examination' of the social-media culture flowery/commentary in North America surrounding ideations of intelligence behind broadcast college-athletics and why/how it revealed a global/citizenry interest in student-life/environment democracy (hmm).

Now, sports in the modern era had become a special 'diadem' for revenue/commerce-life Ego and various iconic events in sportsmanship-lore had become reflective of the superstitions/magic of competitive athletics such as the World Cup soccer ceremony (e.g., Qatar) and modern American men's college-basketball (e.g., Final-Four). This made for all kinds of social-media 'friendly' commentary/intrigue surrounding perceived/acknowledged 'access' to human activity and chess/celebrity (wow).

The one particular men's college-basketball 'event' I was performing a special capitalism-race reflective/symbolic 'examination' for was the 1992 men's Final Four men's national semifinal 'showdown' between top-ranked defending-champs Duke Blue Devils and rival Indiana Hoosiers, a real upstart team in that year's 'most chess-excellent tourney-event' featuring a striking shooting-star and a legendary coach offering the champ-Duke team a 'wonders-rich' test for the exercise of broadcast college-athletics flowery/commentary/shine. The examination I was conducting for social-media commentary concerned the 'personalized' formulae of modern media 'culture' favoring 'selection' oriented team/region/club ornamentation. Which team would I 'elect' as the symbol-rich 'side' in this Duke-Indiana (1992) 'showcase' as reflective of broadcast college-athletics Ego (or highness)?

Well, Duke had become a prominent 'striking' team by 1992, thanks to the general-like acumen of its wise Coach-K who'd lead them to 5 national titles and countless ACC (conference) wins and regular-season #1 rankings. Indiana, meanwhile, coached by the legendary Bob Knight, had become synonymous with American 'ethos' with labor-and-motivation oriented court highness. If I 'elected' Duke to be the 'primary diplomat' of college-athletics 'culture' for social-media, I'd be selecting a 'new era musketeer team' while 'electing' the Hoosiers squad of Bob Knight's Indiana-team would lead me to a 'classic American highness side' (for history!). That's a 'multiple-choice' examination question if I ever faced one (certainly).

I decided ultimately to 'cheer' for the Duke-side, since I favored the neo-classical 'method' of the more 'liberal' style of Coach-K and his focus on the teamwork-magic of college-basketball play and why it fostered a special social-media culture fascination with the intelligence behind choreographed 'simplified' beauty. I 'transformed' myself into a Duke 'super-fan' and cast my Selfie for a social-media comment regarding why the Blue Devils reminded me of the media-society 'superstition' of ornamental heavens (ha).

if capitalism and social-media culture is all about the intelligence/IQ of hospitality image/activity, then Duke-Indiana (certainly!) offered that special modern age 'richness' linked with hospitality tastiness and why any given fan/critic might go for either Duke/Indiana in the 'promotion' of college-athletics 'trophies' as reflections of commerce-life Ego and media-age hostels (hmm).

So, I got myself a 'cool' alien-invader sci-fi media-themed chess-set/toy to create a complementary diagram of the quality of competition-class examinations reflective of capitalism consciousness and club/society oriented 'thought' (regarding the superstitious ambition behind Earth's little games...and micro-societies). Was this all for highness? You decide!