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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Color me shocked. DCPS always holds its citywide athletic events at the least safe, least central locations. Our ES basketball team needed a police escort to walk from the school to the bus after a recent playoff game. It's a recipe for a lawsuit.[/quote]

That's where the DC State golf Championship match was held too.[/quote]

All the swim meets, all of the track meets, many of the baseball and softball games are in the far eastern corner or Anacostia.  I think it's a combo of where they build the nice facilities, what's convenient to DCIAA staff, and some weird desire to "stick it" to the west side of town.[/quote]

They also want to keep a lot of the bad stuff that happens on the margins of a lot of high school sports- by which I mean gambling and the kind of people who show up to gamble, or find the people that are gambling- away from the west side of town. I think there’s a slight smidgen of wanting to stick it to west of 16th, but a whole lot of “we can’t let those people that far across the river.” Maybe I’m just jaded by years of coaching youth football, but stuff gets really, really sketchy.[/quote]

Interesting.  I was not aware of meaningful gambling on HS sports.
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