Duke's My-Color

A Story by Abishai100

A sports-writer (Amlan Satan) explains why a 'key' moment in college-media history (basketball!) shines a special 'view' for Homeland readings for 'wording'-marks (for all!).

A college-athletics (basketball!) 'epic' media 'handshake' fable drawing on the excellence-competition and 'intrigue' spirits from the exploratory American college-basketball film Blue Chips (William Friedkin), which I think you'll like (and thanks for reading!),

DISCLAIMER: This work of sports 'fanfiction' contains images/references (e.g., Duke basketball) with no explicit/commercial ties to any representative person(s)/body and is therefore cast as purely a 'personal' exercise in social/creative wordings (for 'open' folk-material).

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My name's Amlan Satan and I've become a special superstitions-sports writer in the Homeland (America) and decided to draw on some key 'faces' of the college-athletics (basketball!) 'landscape' in this great country, particularly inspired by my (personal/private) 'love' of Seton-Hall Pirates and Duke Blue-Devils basketball which has generated high-handshakes in this social-media culture of personality/wit(s) for net-activity/commentary (for citizenry wire!).

Well, I've been a fan of Duke basketball since the late-80's and cheered the iconic college-team of America through their 'fantastic' run of 5 national titles, countless conference wins, and numerous regular-season #1 rankings, which has elevated this 'highlight' team to the social media culture level(s) of great cyber-activity/commentary spirits, including (of course!) video-game hyperbole (wow). Well, Duke's Blue-Devils team, educated by the legendary/retired Coach-K, thrilled TV audiences in 1991-1992 and then cyber-writers in 2001, 2010, 2015 with their 'inspired' marches to/for NCAA championships/trophies, making this an idealized 'force' of sportsmanship (and cheer!) that a sports-superstitions writer (like me!) would 'reference' for a cyber-presentation about America's 'rich-face' of educational/social magnetism (for imaging!).

Well, this particular explanation/examination concerns Duke's incredible (random!) Wednesday (February 2005) 'showdown' with conference-rival Wake Forest's Demon-Deacons team that spotlighted a media-shiny 'showcase' between the two teams/schools guard-stars of great prodigy-like acumen, the 3-point Blue-Devils 'wizard' JJ Redick and the Wake Forest court-warlock Chris Paul (ha). Such a 'showcase' for this new millennium of media-drawn 'chess' for Homeland (American) story-writing highlights (IMO) why college-competition 'education' for commentary and 'superstition-tales of the metropolis' would reflect our new civilization's 'toy-lens' for all that's (simply) electronic, network, television, art, and (yes) magic-doodles (wow).

Look, I'm not the only sports-fan who's highlighting this special media 'event' in the new millennium (ESPN) that spotlighted why this Redick-Paul (Duke/Wake-Forest) 'showcase' offered fans of sports-superstitions writing/hyperbole a great 'handshake' for competition-class education. In fact, many commentators/writers will (simply) tell you that the close scoreline between the two teams on that Wednesday's Eve in February 2005 ironically 'veiled' a special 'ghost-magic' micro-rivalry glitter between Redick-Paul that moved us fans of the game-of-life to think (deeply) about how the 'art' of sportsmanship is (all) about the 'American' view for what's (simply) movie-magic (hmm).

I love basketball and played 'casually' in neighborhood courts and enjoyed cheering teams in my local/town areas of Jersey/Philadelphia and held 'cherished' memories of adoring the game of finesse, speed, teamwork, acumen, and toughness. Watching this Redick-Paul 'showcase' on TV (now accessible on social-media/YouTube!) that yielded a 'wonders-stalemate' between Duke/Wake-Forest revealed to me why inventions in competition 'education' for academic 'material' can show us shine and figures, for Homeland's witchcraft (mystery).

I think of great games in Duke's long history and key moments in rivalry-sagas that Coach-K's 'fantastic' Blue-Devils (surely!) cherish/toast for themselves. I think of the great writers/fans, including Dick Vitale, who offered their pronounced 'wordings' of what made Blue-Devils basketball a 'hallmark' (really) for what makes this college-athletics 'landscape' one for the diamond-character of 'American' expression (for all!).

So, I decided to complement this 'cool' celebration of that Duke-Forest close-scoreline Feb-2005 'showdown' featuring that (unforgettable) Redick-Paul micro-rivalry/shine with my (own) youth-comics doodle of contrasting color(s), to suggest to you, my readers, why competition 'education' writing and spotlighting can reflect a Homeland view for what's (amazingly) interpretive (for art/journals).

Both Redick/Paul went on to become NBA pro-spirits contributors and (temporarily) played alongside each-other (as team-mates!) in sunny LA (Clippers-ball!) but (surely) would recount that Feb-2005 (Wednesday-Eve) 'magic-moment' for what makes sports-writing and college-athletics 'media' a thing of great 'scholarship' for that winning American ideation for what's simply (become) a capitalism-race micro-screen (for all).

When I was in high-school, I studied very (very) hard and was admitted into Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, UPenn, Cornell, Carnegie-Mellon, St. Lawrence (full-scholarship offer!) but was wait-listed from MIT, where I'd have gone to had I not been admitted into Dartmouth (my other list 'fave'). What I 'gained' from this great achievement/feeling was that 'American' view for what makes education/society a 'handshake' image of our 'shares' in Homeland academic magnetism (and 'capitalist' competitiveness) that (surely!) highlights why our country's schools (simply) offer the best/coolest 'design(s)' for (purely) marks.