basketball is of course played in australia. otherwise, where would we have gotten luke schenscher and andrew bogut? just to name two that i remember.

and what about australian football? and also, very few people even know how to play cricket in the US, let alone actually play it, so your claim that it is a "universal" sport is flawed. curling would have been a better choice. and the amount of rugby played is also not as high here as it is in other parts of the world. "universal" sports? hardly.

anyway. soccer is godly. so yeah.