Cannot resist this letter:

Your examples remind me of my freshman year as an undergrad at Georgetown, straight off the boat from England. I was not familiar with the intricacies of U.S. college sports. And given that Georgetown played basketball mainly against other East Coast schools, I was confused as to why we had a game against the faraway Canadian territory of Yukon, and why everyone was getting so excited for this game. Only upon entering the stadium and looking up at the scoreboard did I realise we were actually playing “UConn,” the pride of Storrs, CT.
(It also took me a while to figure out that when the ESPN ticker referred to a game involving “UK,” it did not mean my homeland, but Kentucky.)

One more:

You cracked me up and brought to mind my dear cousin, Marjorie. She once wrote an entire report in middle school about her number-one heroine, “Jo Novark.” Her research was obviously somewhat suspect.