>>I am a big college basketball fan as well, College hoops and the NFL are my favorite sports, with the NHL a close second. I think the level of play at the college level is great, though the corruption involving recruiting and the exchanging of money is disturbing.
Why don't you become an All Blacks Rugby fan? Apart from hours of fun explaining why their name isn't racist, you can be part of a "David vs Goliath" community story in which a tiny nation's team can win the day against nations orders of magnitude larger.
If you have time (and inclination) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcla62Rwho8You might even be able to do videos with better commentary than this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yslOSsGZul0These days in the US there are college rugby games all the time that you can watch/attend for free. I'll send you an All Blacks jersey and you'll get plenty of notice at those college games! Especially if you can demonstrate the haka:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtOSxOff0wg
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
