Sports (Colony Crisis Averted)

The events in Colony Crisis Averted effected the world of sports in many ways, profoundly in America and Europe.

Difference from OTL
Due to what would have been the United States is still with the British Empire, American influences on British/European sport culture is high. Baseball, Basketball, and American football are more popular across the world because of heavy American influence, unknownly spreaded around the globe by the British. The American franchise system is used most then the promotion and relegation model for basketball and American football leagues.

Baseball

 * Baseball quickly became famous globally by the 1870s due to the British soldiers playing the games across the Empire and the major advertisment for the sport by British radio broadcasters. Baseball leagues begin roming across Britsh Empire, Europe, Japan, Africa, and some South American viceroyalties.
 * After the South American Wars, professional leagues were founded in many Latin American viceroyalties, most prominently Venezuela (1886) and the Cuba (1885).
 * With slavery being abolished in 1833 and the British being more culturally diverse by the mid 1800s, black people become intergrated earlier into sports the OTL, which help the populartiy of baseball to grow in Africa.
 * Baseball became the North American Union first official sport in 1890.
 * Major League Baseball is known as the National Baseball League.
 * NBL is still divided into the American and National leagues, but both leagues have four divisions and 32 teams in total with teams such as Montreal Expos and the Brookyln Blues.
 * The Cleveland Indians win the 1954 (the infamous "The Catch" never happen) and 1997 World Series.

Basketball

 * The National Basketball Association is known as the American Basketball Association, divided forty-eight teams into two conferences of four divisions with six teams each.
 * Michael Jordans "The Shot" is tipped by Craig Ehlo, and the Cavaliers will go on to retake the 1993 Eastern Conference Semifinals, advance all the way to the thier first ABA Finals and then sweep the New Liverpool Lakers to win the series.
 * Michael Jordan father doesn't get murder as in OTL. Without the death of his father, Jordan doesn't retired and play baseball but continues to play with the Astoria Bulls and win 8 ABA Finals.

American Football

 * The National Football League is know as the American Football League.