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[rix_scaedu]

I am playing with a story idea and I'm circling something to do with a possible sidekick character.

For character background purposes, if a North American were going to endow a university sporting scholarship in a foreign nation with aims of cultural imperialism, which team sport would he/she/they specify?

Suggestions gratefully received. (Because the European-equivalents would endow football/soccer scholarships but to me, North America has several possibilities...)