Sports: Collegiate: Meditation on diversity of sports, based on sports discourse reporting a collegiate basketball game

I was meditating on what concepts may unpack from the (Eng-lang) lingual expression "Sports Diverse," diverse sports, diversity and diversity in sports (where the latter often is assumed to mean only the politically correct notion of racial, ethnic, gender, sexuality--together composing the "rainbow" of today's political correctness. If forgotten from the list (for whatever the List may be worth), the idea of disabliity and challenge in physically visible ways, for instance, can't help but tp come to mind separately, distinctly, and yet relatedly because of the semantic resonance of visible physical disability and the organized athletic movement that has emerged consequently to create the metaphor of the Special Olympics to stand for an entire movement within the diversity of sports as sports.

Thus, political correctness is not the center of my meditations on the diversity of sport. Then, I happen upon a copyr+ted piece by Frank J. Matthews, "Georgetown Basketball Celebrates 100 Years" (Feb10,2k7), Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.

Georgetown celebrated their 100th Anniversary of basketball with a win over Marquette.

The Georgetown University Men's basketball program won one of their biggest games of the season on Saturday by knocking off 12th ranked Marquette University 76/58. What made the victory even more special was that Georgetown honored their best players from the past 100 years at halftime. Patrick Ewing received a thunderous ovation as he was called out to center court to join the other honorees.

Georgetown's Roy Hibbert stepped his game up and had 23 points and 11 rebounds. That combined with Jeff Green's 24 points proved to be too much for the Golden Eagles to handle. This was Georgetown's seventh straight win and improves their record to 8-2 in the Big East [Conference] which means they are almost a lock for NCAA National [Basketball] Tournament. [NCAA = National Collegiate Athletic Associaton, of course. - S]

After the game in the media room John Thompson III joked with the press about the win saying "It makes the event we're having tonight a lot easier to show up to."

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This led me on to the concept of sports diversity by age, the concept of sports diversity by religion (institutionally-speaking a propos the game reported about the men's basketball teams of two fine Catholic universities--maybe both of them Jesuit-founded, as well), the concept of kinds of sports-diversity discourses as exemplified by precise sports-discourse genre and sports-discourse rhetoric of the Matthews piece itself.