Taxation Without Representation
Mar 26th 2008ericjhoroHigh School Basketball
Rivals.com is kind enough to have a page listing all of this year’s the high school basketball champions in every class in every state. It’s an extremely nice feature, but it has one problem. Nowhere is there a mention of the Washington D.C. City champions.
Those champions are the Gonzaga Purple Eagles. They’re led by D.C. Player of the Year Max Kenyi (who will be playing basketball at Harvard next fall) and last month they beat Theodore Roosevelt to give coach Steve Turner his city first title. All I ask is that Rivals.com give them the same respect they give Carvel (the Delaware state champions) and everybody else.
2 Comments »
Al on 26 Mar 2008 at 1:31 pm #
Perhaps that’s because the District of Columbia is not a state?
And neither is Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, nor the Northern Mariana Islands.
basmati on 26 Mar 2008 at 2:16 pm #
Those are territories whose residents do not pay federal income tax, and thus have no taxation without representation, unlike DC residents. And, of course, they also are not hotbeds of hoops talent, which should be the focus of the Rivals chart.