People In Sports

By Dave Frederick | Feb 18, 2011

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  Two Donahues discovered by skeptical sportswriter

  By Dave Frederick - May 22
  Oil Can Fredman - Friday afternoon, I pulled a thrift shop full-sized sofa out of the bed of my pickup through the front door and onto the steps ...
  
• People In Sports

  Fun factor and winning go together in high school sports

  By Dave Frederick - May 18
  Specialty sport - There are only so many female athletes to go around in the spring, and the better ones - and yes, some kids excel at whatever ...
  
• People In Sports

  First place in the slow heat of life

  By Dave Frederick - May 15
  Coco Buck - A ripped, fit 29-year-old personal trainer from Herndon, Va., and recent graduate from the University of Virginia with a degree in ...
  
• People In Sports

  Ruly and Tubby gather 100 friends to support Ernie at Irish Eyes

  By Dave Frederick - May 11
  Ruly and Tubby - Delaware is a small enough state that some people are known immediately just by first name. Personally, I make the claim to be ...
  
• People In Sports

  Women have market cornered on mental toughness

  By Dave Frederick - May 08
  Mental toughness - Sports teaches mental toughness to some of us; other non-sports people get it from someplace else, and many to most people ...
  
• People In Sports

  Play up Mom’s birthday or learn how to run the power mixer

  By Dave Frederick - May 04
  The family card - Coaches get together and tell war stories about all kinds of things and it's done in a positive and humorous way, not in crybaby ...
  
• People In Sports

  Two Moose dart teams battle at the Moose Lodge

  By Dave Frederick - May 01
  Captain Safety - You get older, you become more cautious. If you see Fred Pop attacking a seven-foot wave with a Super Fresh boogie board, you can ...
  
• People In Sports

  We can all dunk on an adjustable basket

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 27
  Delightfully improbable - Joel Ward is a hockey player of color and the fourth-line winger for the Washington Capitals who knocked in the sudden-de...
  
• People In Sports

  When women throw plates, get out of the kitchen

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 24
  Bad card - “Just because life deals you a bad card doesn’t mean there aren’t more in the deck.” - Grandmom Rose. We all hold bad life cards we ...
  
• People In Sports

  Same God, different dogma, same doughnuts

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 20
  Community player - I stood with my brother outside a Methodist church in Tyrone, Pa., west of State College 40 years ago. Tom was reared Catholic ...
  
• People In Sports

  Don’t throw Uncle Charlie over the fat part of the plate

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 17
  Wild in the strike zone - Cliff Lee was pitching for the Phillies last week, and announcer Chris Wheeler wouldn’t back off his newfound cleverness,...
  
• People In Sports

  Who am I, Captain Willie without the helicopter?

  By Daave Frederick - Apr 13
  Enlightening - Northwestern University is the No. 1-ranked college women’s lacrosse team in the country and the defending NCAA champion. I checked ...
  
• People In Sports

  Beau Warrington shows true sportsmanship of tough athlete

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 10
  Spontaneous sportsmanship - I think it is the toughest of athletes who are most at peace with who they are, those who give away nothing, never ...
  
• People In Sports

  Cost-reward benefit for track better bang for the buck

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 06
  Self-destruction - Trust me, I was an athlete first, nothing in second, idiot during my formative years in school, which qualifies me to be a ...
  
• People In Sports

  A race suddenly invades solace space of solitary stretching man

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 03
  Know when to fold up! - I watched seven innings of softball March 27 when Milford came to town, and if I heard the words "travel ball" once, it ...
  
• People In Sports

  Nightmare on Barley Mill Road

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 30
  The elusive truth - I was only hanging behind the Cape lacrosse bench late in the second half March 29 at Ursuline because the scoreboard went ...
  
• People In Sports

  Good eye! Good eye! But it takes two to pick up the curve ball

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 27
  Report in shape - Spring sports lifted off March 22, and every team has at least one final result in the book. The athletes who used the off ...
  
• People In Sports

  I rock lowbrow bow wow workout music on my iPod

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 23
  An older and thinner than me by half workout dude was speaking in the Club Fitness locker room and I was eavesdropping. “Why don’t they pump ...
  
• People In Sports

  Youth sports all about having fun with friends

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 20
  Little lax girls - The local sports scene is all about families, hope, promise and positivism. Volunteer coaches drive the engine that powers high ...
  
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  You can wear earrings to dinner but can't take teeth out during dessert

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 16
  Payday ain’t no candy bar - DeSean Jackson of the Eagles emanates a persona that he is some skinny, front-running, pass-catching, won’t-go-over-the...
  
• People In Sports

  Magic Johnson a big smile backed by a soft voice

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 13
  Magic Johnson - The good old USA is the “we got jokes” capital of the universe, and when bad things happen to public people – defined as anybody ...
  
• People In Sports

  Most of us can flop without any practice

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 09
  Flop practice - Most of us flop several times in our lives without any practice; like Grand Mom Rose said, “All failure is based on effort or the ...
  
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  Athletes have three grandmoms, and one is fictional

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 06
  One hundred Cape girls on two turf fields, a pair of Hall of Fame coaches at the helm of lacrosse and soccer. A cloud cover, intermittent drizzle ...
  
• People In Sports

  Perception is its own reality

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 02
  Cape Crusaders - Back in 1992 on the far side of a gender equity audit of Cape by the Office of Civil Rights in Philadelphia, Pa. I became ...
  
• People In Sports

  Heat geeks up to shut down Peter Pan

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 28
  Cape caravan - March madness begins in February for high school basketball. The state tournament for girls begins at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 28. ...
  
• People In Sports

  The pachyderm of press passes never forgets

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 24
  Fair game - A high school athlete who wears the school uniform and who has received positive press coverage during a season and perhaps honors ...
  
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  Proof is in the performance for Poochie and Will

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 21
  Proof in the pudding - I've never looked for proof in pudding, and I've eaten a lot of it. The proof is in the performance when it comes to ...
  
• People In Sports

  Riding haughty on my high horse

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 17
  Shoebee and Heavy Du - They were close friends in high school and for the rest of their lives, and now both are gone as Willie Vann Jr., also ...
  
• People In Sports

  Choose words carefully and speak sparingly

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 14
  Poppa, don't preach - I have reached tribal elder status in my life, which requires the wisdom to choose words carefully and to speak sparingly. ...
  
• People in Sports

  Bradshaw’s reluctant roll into end zone was oddly ironic

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 10
  The rule is clear - The Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association rule governing nonschool competition on outside teams is written here. All ...
  
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  Bradshaw's reluctant roll into end zone was oddly ironic

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 09
  The rule is clear - The Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association rule governing non- school competition on outside teams is written here. All ...
  
• People in Sports

  Special athletes not into morose self-reflections

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 07
  Goodness to grouchiness - Personally, I see everyone as just another Muppet in the village. The more diversity in my life, the more I am energized ...
  
• People In Sports

  Not this gobbler; financial packages are personal

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 03
  Signed Sealed Delivered - Athletes as underclassmen often give verbal commitments to attend certain colleges to play sports, and I'm sure that is ...
  
• People In Sports

  Versatile Cape athletes double down for the blue and gold

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 31
  Cape doing swimmingly well - Swimming is the best sport for general conditioning, more friendly to the body than running or power lifting or ...
  
• People In Sports

  Not sure if I’m malleable, pliable or disagreeable

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 27
  Jailbird Gammy - I was the coach on a bus way back in 1980 leaving the Widener College Field House with my coed cargo of anonymous Cape track ...
  
• People In Sports

  Cape expected to announce field hockey coach Thursday

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 24
  A sudden sadness - Joe Paterno didn't ask to be the king of college football; that just proved to be his unlikely destiny, and by most accounts he ...
  
• People In Sports

  This ain't no party! This ain't no disco! This ain't no fooling around!

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 20
  Life lessons - “We believe by making them better people they become better players.” “She is a tremendous teammate on and off the field.” “The ...
  
• People In Sports

  Tom Hickman now a member of Legends Stadium

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 17
  Grapple to the Brook champions - The Cape wrestling team crowned five individual bracket- busting champions, including Germaine Sunkett at 120 ...
  
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  Legendary coach and war hero Tom Hickman turns 90

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 13
  Elective misery - I looked around the gym at Sussex Central late Jan. 11 and saw all partisans. Everyone had a dog in the fight. There were no ...
  
• People In Sports

  Postcards from the Edge of Fitness: Looking for feel-good stories

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 10
  Halftime with Hazzard - Nolan Hazzard was a linebacker at Cape on the 1979 state championship football team that played a five-three defense; the ...
  
• People In Sports

  Cape sports fans a lot like Philly peeps: Where is the love, yo?

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 06
  Petey Dog - I loved seeing Petey Hazzard on the sports scene; it was like an aerial dogfight with bullets made of Nerf. He'd always start with ...
  
• People In Sports

  New rubber at New Balance for my barking dogs

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 03
  A world out of balance - Heading south on Route 1, my 11-year-old Tundra pulled to the right just past Burger King. Homey don't need no breakfast ...
  
• People In Sports

  Beideman and Holt were major community impact players

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 30
  The Sidekick - Coach Warren Beideman, who passed away Dec. 27 at the age of 80, was the quintessential sidekick, an apt name for a soccer guy. He ...
  
• People In Sports

  Big Loser Boy completes 30 years of sports columns

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 27
  Not bragging, just saying - The end of this calender year will complete 30 straight years of People in Sports columns, first with the Whale ...
  
• People In Sports

  Eat less often and fewer things that once went “Moo!” or “Oink!”

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 23
  Big peeps - I take chances, like any crazy journalist with a camera. I was standing inside Club Fitness Dec. 20, talking to my dog, Trainer Dave, ...
  
• People In Sports

  Sound the sick puppy alarm when in doubt

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 20
  Happy Valley - Joe Paterno was Penn State's athletic director in 1980. He hired Rene Portland to coach the women's basketball team. Portland ...
  
• People In Sports

  Hickman deserves a plaque inside Legends Stadium

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 16
  Wall of Honor - Legends Stadium at Cape was set up from its initial naming to induct new members to a wall of honor, and now with the new brick ...
  
• People In Sports

  The Naval Academy has 40 cheerleaders; who knew?

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 13
  Season of the goat - Running back Marion Barber of the Bears went double goat in the final minutes of the overtime loss to the Broncos, all ...
  
• People In Sports

  Embedded inside a mellowed man is the word 'meow'

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 09
  Christmas City - It was in the winter of 1977 that I was in Williamsburg, Va., with eight Cape track guys to compete in the Christmas City Relays ...
  
• People In Sports

  Iron Mike DeStasio inspires Cape football players, who give it right back to him

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 06
  Iron Mike - Mike DeStasio is three years down the road after an ALS diagnosis - Lou Gehrig's disease - Google it - trust me, you don't want it. ...
  
• People In Sports

  Women's lacrosse coming to Delaware State University

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 02
  Hornets sting again - Delaware State University is a surprising place. There is a flight school with its own student pilots who do flyovers at ...
  
• People In Sports

  No, you can't and no, you didn't

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 29
  Yams and game plans - William Penn made the football state tournament, edging out Cape largely on the strength of an upset 28-25 win over Middletow...
  
• People In Sports

  One minute you’re the syrup, the next the pancake

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 25
  Legends of the Fall - I love Irish Casey Fagan. He looks like he belongs on the streets of Dublin. He was a three-sport athlete at Cape, competing ...
  
• People In Sports

  Cape and Delmar double attendance of NCAA title game

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 22
  Wrap my head around it. I can't wrap my head around anything. Things can be wrapped around your head, but your head is an orb and doesn't wrap ...
  
• People In Sports

  Toddlers in 1995, Cape girls ready to run to another state title

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 18
  Never say "Never" - The Delmar Wildcats have never won a state championship in a girls' sport. Their best sport over many years has been field ...
  
• People In Sports

  Cody D an irrepressible and irascible motion machine

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 15
  Sing Me Back Home - Wayne Black's life was the music of family, friends and fitness. Wayne was a Dewey Beach “way of life” type guy and a sometimes...
  
• People In Sports

  Rock the wet suit walrus suit to attract sea cows

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 11
  Surf Up - I have been all the way acculturated and I'm officially local because I didn't step into the ocean once all summer. Back when I moved ...
  
• People In Sports

  A five day friend lost when the joke misses the mark

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 08
  New friend lost - I made a new friend then lost her and it only took five days, a new personal record for me. On Oct. 30 I covered the Seawitch 5K ...
  
• People In Sports

  Bassinet baby rocks a monkey suit at Seawitch 5K

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 04
  Monkey time - Marion and Fred Price, grandparents of Riley Price Washeck, were left in charge of the bassinet baby in a monkey costume coming up ...
  
• People In Sports

  Hats in the house make it feel like home

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 01
  Hats in the house - In Philly, the sport is known as gauff. Twenty years ago, Philadelphia Magazine did a feature on how the image of the golfer ...
  
• People In Sports

  Older athletes can trip without leaving the house

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 28
  Selling your stuff - I have a Philadelphia Catholic League MVP plaque for basketball so old most of the letters have disappeared. But would I sell ...
  
• People in Sports

  Baby Blue Crew stays undefeated in field hockey

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 25
  Varsity gold - I don't like the designation junior varsity or JV because it has a “less than” connotation which doesn't tell the true story. In ...
  
• People In Sports

  Cape football: 13-year losing streak versus Sussex Central

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 21
  An always-good Sussex Central football team will be at Cape Friday night, Oct. 21. The Golden Knights have won 13 in a row versus Cape, if that ...
  
• People In Sports

  A brave young boy on a soccer field is a hero to us all

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 18
  Heartwarming - Saturday morning soccer at H.O. Brittingham, parents and grandparents settled in lawn chairs watching 8 and under children, girls ...
  
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  Who really comes home for homecoming?

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 14
  Assault with a deadly - Let's kick it real. No one comes home for homecoming, and if you're out of school from five years to 50 and show up at the ...
  
• People In Sports

  Ivins Stadium: A tribute to a coach who put Cape field hockey on the map

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 11
  The flight ain't right - Eddie George is from Philly, earned a Heisman Trophy at Ohio State and was drafted by the Houston Oilers. Eddie signed ...
  
• People In Sports

  Keep looking in the rear-view mirror and risk hitting something

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 07
  Because we care - The field hockey season is young and already five Henlopen Conference teams - Woodbridge, Indian River, Dover, Laurel and Sussex ...
  
• People In Sports

  You can't keep a good man down

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 04
  Iron Mike DeStasio - Mike writes, "[We] watched the Cape Vikings beat Sussex Tech Ravens Saturday night in a great game to remain undefeated. With ...
  
• People In Sports

  The more respected the teacher, the more meaningful the advice

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 30
  Fastballs - Teaching school is a hard job every single day and God bless the people on the front lines where most meaningful interactions take ...
  
• People In Sports

  Butterflies are free, but there is a price to pay for victory

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 27
  Poppy Parker - Cape defensive coordinator John Parker goes by the handle “Poppy” if you want to get his quick attention on your CB radio. But ...
  
• People In Sports

  Muehleisen still coaching football after 40 years

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 23
  Fame is fleeting - The Eagles won the NFL championship in 1960 with a 17-13 win at Franklin Field in Philly over the Green Bay Packers. The ...
  
• People In Sports

  Drumstick Deacon Dave is not a Butterball turkey

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 20
  Soccer power - The Cape soccer team has opened the season with three straight victories, outscoring Smyrna, Woodbridge and Laurel by a combined ...
  
• People In Sports

  Beefalo Brigade at Mariner Middle, so steer clear

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 16
  Mariner Moving Company - Back in the old King Cole Ranch days, beefalo - a hybrid buffalo and steer - grazed the fields by Cave Neck Road. Footba...
  
• People In Sports

  'Who lost?' Question struck me like a jolt of Bolt

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 13
  Who lost? Young street toughs were strolling the sociopath slow shuffle and slide step heading toward the bright stadium Friday night lights a ...
  
• People In Sports

  'God Bless America' spurs tearful yet fighting side of Americans

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 09
  Pee Wee Huskies - It was Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention in 1967 who sang, ”Nanook, watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat ...
  
• People In Sports

  Drag queens: You know exactly where they stand

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 06
  Couple of Cape guys - Super good guys pass the test every day. Dave Robinson and Kevin Carson, Cape's outgoing and incoming (sounds like mortar ...
  
• People In Sports

  Sleep at night and prowl in the morning

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 02
  Digital dizziness - Years ago when message boards first sprang up under the guise that they actually had something to do with sports, a Cape ...
  
• People In Sports

  Loyalties of athletes lie inside the lines, not outside the fence

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 30
  Roar of the crowd - A Division One college field hockey or soccer game generally draws about 200 to 300 spectators, most of them relatives. ...
  
• People In Sports

  Working out is health insurance, not assurance

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 26
  Elephant in the room - A person you have known forever but haven't seen for a long time looks right at you and passes without a hint of recognition...
  
• People In Sports

  Phillies fans all living with a hernia after three kicks to the groin

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 23
  Implosion therapy - If a person is afraid of dogs, lock him or her in a garage filled with friendly, face-licking mastiffs and that person will ...
  
• People In Sports

  Don't wrap dental floss around the dog's snout

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 19
  Shut up, you did not - I have eight grandchildren, and I've never told any of them how many points I scored in a basketball game or awards I ...
  
• People In Sports

  Return to mother ship should be penalty-free

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 16
  Sports choice - The idea behind school choice is that it puts the emphasis on performance and reputation and allows a student from one public ...
  
• People In Sports

  Talk about real athletes: driving, diving and disarming

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 12
  Skydivers and race car drivers - Discussions about who is an athlete and who is not lead back to people standing still having a discussion, which ...
  
• People In Sports

  Med ball slams annoying but excellent total body workout

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 09
  Ralph and Cottonmouth - Captain Safety, one of my personalities, wants to develop a pair of cartoon kids whose adventures include endurance sports ...
  
• People In Sports

  Sports are like soaps - the drama never stops

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 05
  Soap on a rope - What is it that tethers people without real lives to the drama of others? Do you know how many great cop shows and hospital ...
  
• People In Sports

  Jeff Burnham goes from scrapple guy to apple guy

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 02
  Lights out! The campus of the current Cape Henlopen High School is located on what was the farm of Ossie Warrington. The first year students ...
  
• People In Sports

  Solution to deception and misdirection: Tackle everybody!

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 29
  Artist and athlete - “She’s got everything she needs, she’s an artist, she don’t look back. She can take the dark out of the nighttime and paint ...
  
• People In Sports

  Should I hydrate or irrigate myself?

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 26
  Teachers and those in the media market spend a percentage of quality time dispensing globs of what Bob Dylan called “useless and pointless ...
  
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  Town ball of the 1980s was simply the best

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 21
  Bad and nationwide - Isabella "Izzie" Delario of Rehoboth, who will be entering her junior year at Sussex Tech and has been a starter on two state ...
  
• People In Sports

  Don't bring weak junk to the rack

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 18
  Advanced Placement - Greg Collier and Lynn Knothe are a couple and a pair of front-of-the-pack runners who began dating two years ago. Collier is ...
  
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  Get gaunt and go faster

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 15
  Sonja Friend - I am lucky to have taught, coached and written about a host of student athletes over the years and have maintained long-term if not ...
  
• People In Sports

  Glory and the goat:  the story of sports

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 11
  There are no words - The improbable double overtime U.S. win over Brazil in the quarterfinals of the Women's Soccer World Cup ignited two minutes ...
  
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  Young athletes move like calicos on catnip

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 07
  Bob Paulen is a 74-year-old track athlete, and let's face it, he is a skinny guy and I’m not; he can jump hurdles over a 300-meter distance and I ...
  
• People In Sports

  Mike Wardian,  congenial and crazy ultra-marathoner

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 04
  Mike Wardian is a great guy, a solid family man and father of two sons who describes himself as just “one lucky boy.” But there is no doubt in my ...
  
• People In Sports

  Hope alive and in high definition wearing purple

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 29
  Dr. Jill Extract is a dentist - you just can’t make that up - and Andrea Hoffman is the younger sister of Dustin and Abbie - I did make that up - ...
  
• People In Sports

  The intersection where the improbable meets the impossible

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 27
  I get to go where I want go and do what I want to with whomever I want to do it with; that’s where you land when you reach the mommas and grand ...
  
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  Arthur Lodge great choice for Chris Short Award

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 23
  Nicknames - Years ago at the awards presentation following the Rehoboth Avenue Mile, the 19-and-under champion was announced and many people ...
  
• People In Sports

  A bad attitude always follows a broken-down body

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 21
  Just by pure happenstance I encountered Bart T. Luff outside Delaware Stadium prior to the playing of the 56th annual Blue-Gold All-Star football ...
  
• People In Sports

  Don't push athletic attitude in 11-year old girls

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 16
  I have been covering this local sports scene for the last 30 years, which means duck if you see me coming into Surf Bagel or Wawa or circling the ...
  
• People In Sports

  Zumba at Lewes American Legion Post 17

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 13
  Kelly Serpico was a Division One soccer player for the University of Delaware and now lives in Lewes with her family. I often see her running in ...
  
• People In Sports

  The package: Ripped and fit, firm and fast, bright and erudite

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 09
  The Three R’s – I call them reading, writing and resistance training. Students should start by throwing away those summer reading lists. Unless ...
  
• People In Sports

  Never argue with the chronically annoyed

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 06
  Grandmom Rose said, ”You can’t trump miserable, so never argue with the chronically annoyed.” Just symbolically fork them occasionally with a ...
  
• People In Sports

  State championship of golf runs through Slaughter Neck and Coolspring

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 02
  Every dog has his day. My dog’s day is spent sleeping over the air-conditioning register under the kitchen table. Another school year of sports is ...
  
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  Fatty and Fred are unsung heroes of Cape lacrosse

  By Dave Frederick - May 30
  The question keeps being posed: Should Delaware scholastic sports separate the private schools from the public and have separate state championship...
  

• Old school basketball and barbecue Saturday morning at Shady Tree Lounge

  By Dave Frederick - May 26
  The weather breaks and I become color conflicted. I’m sure it’s a disorder or lingering evolutionary instinct. I can be 10 different colors on the ...
  
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  The arrogance of excellence

  By Dave Frederick - May 23
  The arrogance of excellence: A little EPO and a drop of testosterone on the tongue, perhaps an occasional transfusion of your own highly oxygenated...
  
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  If you want to be caddy, buy a golf bag

  By Dave Frederick - May 20
  Here’s what I’m saying: if you’re interested in being caddy, go buy yourself a golf bag. I saw the Cape lacrosse girls' practice schedule for the ...
  
• People in Sports

  Coaching jobs are not color coded

  By Dave Frederick - May 16
  What do you call a white man on a bus with 30 black men? Answer: Coach! Remember when "White Shadow" was a popular television program and the ...
  
• People in Sports

  Hey, Blue! Where was that pitch?

  May 05
  It's time for teams with championship aspirations to put aside the nice and prepare to "slap them silly" because in sports the meek are not ...
  
• People in Sports

  Comparing scores proves one thing: nothing

  Apr 25
  The press is supposed to have equal access to coaches and players, but that element of professionalism and decorum has fallen by the wayside ...
  
• People in Sports

  Three walls and a stall at Penn's Franklin Field

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 21
  Track meets take a long time to complete, like the April 19 triangular meet of boys and girls involving Cape, Dover and Smyrna. It is really a ...
  
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  Don't believe in celebrities, just celebrations

  By People in Sports - Apr 18
  I don’t believe in celebrities but I’m all about celebrations. Last Friday morning I dropped in on the Blockhouse Pond mile walk/run or sit and ...
  
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  Cape community will miss two impact players in Harry Moore and Ernie Watts

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 13
  Harry Moore was part of an all-star Cape school board in the 1970s that included Jim Reed, Jesse Millman, Dave Truitt, Ken Lingo, Buck Ratledge ...
  
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  Flower child Meg Bartley snaps like carnivorous plant

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 11
  The flower child of Cape sports Meg Bartley scored her 100th career goal in the early moments of last Friday, April 8's, waterlogged home game ...
  

• Baseball looks for signature win after a washed-out early season

  Apr 06
  I often tell athletes and their sports agents who double as parents not to speak of their personal or team highlights by running down another ...
  
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  Undefeated Cape, Caesar Rodney meet in tennis showdown this week

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 04
  The Cape softball team lost 13-0 in 4 1/2 innings at Caravel April 2 as the undefeated defending state champion Bucs scored 11 runs in the bottom ...
  
• People in Sports

  Those with passes approve charging for games

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 30
  Outdoor activities are determined more by date than by actual weather, and I’m convinced it is easier to play in the cold than to sit and watch. ...
  
• People in Sports

  Gold's veterans gather at sprawling and sparkling Club Fitness

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 27
  I am the sports guy who interchanges siblings in sports stories. Only a couple of years ago, I had Dan Cleary stealing home for Cape baseball at ...
  
• People in Sports

  Doctors Outside Borders drove me to the Apple trash can icon

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 24
  I’ll take the credit and you can roll with the debit. In the March 22 Cape Gazette, there were five nice Cape girls' lacrosse pictures, all ...
  
• People in Sports

  Unimaginable series of unintelligible utterances

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 20
  Eight quality girls’ lacrosse teams facing off on two turf fields over six hours with some warming up on two Bermuda grass fields provided plenty ...
  
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  Spring sports move out of dead zone and into real play

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 17
  Stan Iwamoto and Pat Niland never back down on their enthusiasm for coaching young female athletes best described as “raw” and never complain when ...
  
• Off The Hook

  A new band for longtime sports guys:  "Dead Ball Rebounds"

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 14
  I covered the Shamrock Shuffle 5K and 15K races March 13 at 9 a.m. because you could spring ahead three hours and “Big Loser Boy” is still up too ...
  
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  Spring sports begin at Cape

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 09
  I just found Easter on the calendar and had no idea it was as late as April 24, but then again Ash Wednesday and Lent and Catholic statues covered ...
  
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  Cape basketball will play in semifinals

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 08
  Concord High School is a welcoming place for a visiting team. That is a tribute to athletic director Debbie Corrado and the entire crew of coaches ...
  

• Oscars prove needy people

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 04
  The Oscars prove to me that no matter how rich and famous they are, many people are so needy and insecure. They crave being recognized and winning ...
  
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  We are all muppets with multiple personalities

  Mar 01
  Chrissy Beckman, a Cape graduate and Cape Gazette corresponding photojournalist, is majoring in physical therapy and athletic training at the ...
  
• Intelligence test should be part of screening ...

  Biggest decision for coach is which offense to use

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 28
  All the football I continue to watch and write about and have coached and was a player I would have to conclude that I’m not genius on either side ...
  

• Good teachers make 100 correct decisions every day

  Feb 25
  There is an undercurrent of anti-education that runs through every community in America. Many people like teachers at low prices, but if they hear ...
  

• Young wrestlers become double arm bar assassins

  Feb 22
  Long ago in a far-away galaxy I dragged a son to the Young Rough Riders wrestling tournament at Caesar Rodney. I was overwhelmingly impressed with ...
  
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  Lackluster and dedication never appear in one sentence

  Feb 18
  Sports have always been my life but I’m not a sporty type of guy, just a sportswriter and social observer looking for twists and turns and the ...
  

• Steeler Nation disappointment is entertainment

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 11
  I overheard two guys in the 24/7 Fitness locker room talking about the best ways to put on weight. I couldn’t disagree when they named pizza, hot ...
  

• Students’ role: Holler and get behind their team

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 08
  The good sportsmanship code is required reading before every basketball game, but most fans aren’t trying to hear it. “Students are stupid” at ...
  

• Tomlin stares down games and never wavers

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 04
  I began an objective, analytical discussion with avid Steelers fan Ralph Bayko because he asked me, “What do you think about the game?” Ralph ...
  

• Just because you are right doesn’t mean you win

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 31
  The future is now and now has left the building. There is no now because everything in the universe is moving in relation to everything else. “Gee ...
  

• This year’s showdown is CR, Central and Smyrna

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 28
  I sat in the bleachers at Seaford last Tuesday night, a minority man in every sense of the word - race, age and number of arthritic joints - ...
  

• Without chemistry, good coaches have losing seasons

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 25
  What in the name of Pistol Pete has happened to downstate boys’ basketball? I am reminded of the quote of Casey Stengel when he managed the 1962 ...
  

• Sussex Tech is there for students and athletes

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 21
  Real Sussex County people never knock on a front door when visiting a friend. It’s always around the back or through the garage. I have been ...
  

• It was a bad playoff week for the flying mascots

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 18
  Back in fall 1965 while living in the 10th-floor corner dorm room of Johnson Hall on the campus of Temple University on North Broad Street, I had ...
  

• Grand Mom Rose says if it tastes good, then eat it

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 14
  I can remember years ago a triathlon organizer reminding me to use the full title of the race when writing about it, but I refused to write “Coors ...
  

• Adios Andy - never let the fat guy call the plays

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 11
  Mike Mayock, a 52-year-old former NFL safety with the Giants, was doing his first NFL game as a color commentator next to veteran Tom Hammond ...
  

• Remembering a fan who made the game more fun

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 07
  Mary Bragg liked everyone, as far as I could tell, except for high school basketball officials. She was a genuine listener. I always found her ...
  

• Cape’s Young nearing school record for wrestling wins

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 04
  The Frisco Flyers will be heading out of Philly and Baltimore this Thursday, Jan. 6, having booked passage for the Friday night championship game ...
  

• As Dylan says “People are crazy and times are strange”

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 30
  With all the football I have coached and played and continue to watch and write about, I would have to conclude that I’m no genius on either side ...
  

• If you don’t have credibility, you aren’t getting plowed out

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 28
  Chris Bosch is a left-handed 6-foot-11 center for the Miami Heat, and against the Lakers he was dropped a perfect pass down on the block and got ...
  

• Always expecting the Cape boys basketball team to win

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 24
  I have to be honest - actually no one does - but every time the Cape boys’ basketball team walks onto the court, I expect them to win. That’s a ...
  

• Cruising the countryside with a loaded camera

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 21
  I cruise the countryside with a loaded camera looking for faces to focus on. Last Saturday at the Delaware game, the sidelines of Georgia Southern ...
  

• The stronger the spirit the harder someone was going to get hit

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 14
  I played at a Catholic high school where sport was a religion. I would never take to the basketball court without being blessed by a priest and ...
  

• Overusing ‘huge’ is a gargantuanly humongous mistake

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 10
  I wish sports commentators would back down from the word “huge” and find another sports synonym that also means really big. Analysts are now using ...
  

• Cape students are back to make noise and support their teams

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 10
  Talent must meet opportunity for success to occur. I see that happen in sports all the time when sometimes the people who play and the positions ...
  

• If anyone ever fires me I’m firing back with momma jokes

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 07
  Football coach Al Lavan was fired by Delaware State University last week, which at best seemed a rude way to treat a man of integrity and high ...
  

• Last thing I drop when things get weird is the gym

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 03
  Older-generation types send email forwards lamenting the good old day, but on the sports side of the street not all the old days were good. There ...
  

• Want to know what I write down? It’s a trade secret

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 30
  The indoor sports season is more upon me than upon us as no nonrelated person goes to more games at more levels than I do, but it’s okay; it’s ...
  

• I’m 10 imploded buildings older than anyone I know

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 24
  Buildings do not have human characteristics. They are devoid of flesh and blood. They do not have brains and do not store memories. More buildings ...
  

• The dark drama of technicalities wiped out by fate

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 23
  The darkest hour is just before the dawn is a proverb traced back 300 years and that’s all you need to know. Sussex Tech field hockey coach Nancy ...
  

• High school can be harsh or - as the kids say - just plain stupid

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 19
  The Baylor Bears women’s basketball team led powerhouse Connecticut Tuesday night 56-48 with 6:42 left in the game. I saw another vignette for my ...
  

• Shy players spoke of friendship and love and a family they will never forget

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 16
  The tracks of tears rolled down the young cheeks of Cape football players as they knelt in the end zone Friday night, Nov. 12, where a 47-yard ...
  

• Forty-three Delawareans compete in the New York City Marathon

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 12
  Forty-five thousand runners, striders, sliders, gliders, rollers, bowlers and strollers - along with those who limp, gimp and pimp - traversed the ...
  

• I’m pretty sure I will eventually land on crazy

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 09
  During a 28-year career as a community columnist-granddaddy, Fredman has been a commentator, negotiator, instigator, facilitator, regulator, ...
  

• Reasonable people don’t like jumping into agitated waters

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 05
  I love Logan Pavlik and her seven siblings and would have expected nothing less than her response after the 4-1 Sussex Tech field hockey win at ...
  

• No one wanted to lose this game and no one did

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 29
  I took pictures at Monday afternoon’s Beacon versus Sussex Academy field hockey game played at Delmarva Christian amidst more whistles than a ...
  

• Current Phils fans are very young, match color of towels

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 26
  I call it borderline personality disorder while holding a bat. I call Ryan Howard a “good kid” and I admire him for enjoying a blessed life with ...
  

• I’m a galloping moron who should be shut down

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 22
  I am the first to admit that, as a sports parent and sportswriter and coach all at the same time, I was capable of throwing good sense to the side ...
  

• If you don’t know nobody, then you ain’t nobody

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 19
  Delaware State Homecoming is like any other gathering of people in a small state. Just cruise around some and you will bump into someone you know, ...
  

• Not many people come home for homecoming weekend

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 15
  Friday night is Homecoming at Cape, and one thing is for certain. Not many people come home. Saturday there is a Homecoming Dance and one thing ...
  

• I just want a cheap screwdriver; I’m not launching a rocket

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 12
  Let’s get wired up! Cultures are changed by the young because they are quicker and more inventive, less committed to traditional ways, and hardly ...
  

• School sports schedule juggling has more than one side to the story

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 08
  There is more than one version of the story, but the bottom line is Indian River will not be playing Cape next football season because either the ...
  

• A little advice for event directors: you gotta to keep those dawgies rollin’

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 05
  The first year the Punkin Chunkin moved west of Harbeson, a 7-mile Saturday morning traffic backup was created, the problem stemming from the huge ...
  

• Written words don’t change; they just keep sitting there

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 01
  I don’t stand behind anything I write but rather prefer to stand in front. Turn and run and the dogs give chase. Written words don’t change; they ...
  

• See the world outside while making decisions to benefit the greater good

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 28
  Cultural anthropologists and sports psychologists not to mention physiologists who can simultaneously text and open a beer can without missing a ...
  

• Load up on coins, bring your friends; tastes like team spirit

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 24
  Charlie Brown looked at Linus carrying his contorted cat upside down looking placidly peaceful and said, “They finally made the boneless cat.” But ...
  

• If I was the man that you wanted, I would not be the man that I am

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 21
  Lyle Lovett has a lyric, “If I was the man that you wanted, I would not be the man that I am.” I am up front, a football guy taking short choppy ...
  

• Beideman to be awarded the Governor’s Outstanding Volunteer Award

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 17
  Warren Beideman, the Coach B of local Cape Henlopen High School soccer and the Henlopen Soccer Club boot scooters, should not to be confused with ...
  

• Way cool mascot names and overcompensating camera lenses

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 14
  Last Saturday an unusual cast of mascots visited Delaware with the Jackrabbits of South Dakota State at Delaware and the Rattlers of Florida A&M ...
  

• Scoring: Combo of vision, finesse, quickness and bad attitude

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 10
  I have earned the right to infiltrate a Cape Henlopen High School practice but if a coach were to tell me to leave I’d be gone like a Catholic boy ...
  

• It all comes down to great athletes making plays

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 07
  I camped out on dog garage couch early Sunday to watch Delaware State play Southern on ESPN. Three hours and 15 minutes later they were still ...
  

• I guarantee performers in uniform are ‘real’ athletes

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 03
  I was talking to Cape cheerleading assistant coach Molly Lingo at a practice last Wednesday night, and she said a point of emphasis at summer ...
  

• I could write a chapter on every player who was there

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 31
  So long ago it was Jim Wilson’s first year as superintendent. He was wearing a three-piece, rust-colored suit - too much iron in the washer water ...
  

• If a player goes rogue, teammates should bring him back

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 27
  Last Saturday’s soccer play day at Kirkwood Aug. 21 ended with a Viking civil war as Cape and St. Elizabeth got after each other way outside the ...
  

• You must be crazy; ain’t nobody going into no hot-dog store

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 24
  There is something funny about a hot-dog shirt. Under Armour, Adidas and Nike are all safely cool at athletic events, so is wearing the logo of ...
  

• How can you not recognize a gold-medal winner?

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 20
  The Phillies were on ESPN Wednesday night versus the Giants with the broadcast being handled by announcers Karl Ravech, Aaron Boone and Chris ...
  

• You can check out anytime you like but you can never leave

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 17
  Last Thursday, Aug. 12, I attended my first DIAA monthly board meeting because I was curious to see how the appeal of the transfer rule as applied ...
  

• Is the air up there thinner or am I just a bumbling buccaneer?

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 13
  I write about sports at all levels and have done so forever. I‘m what’s called a real professional, maybe even consummate although that sounds ...
  

• Age is no factor when it comes to being fit for races

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 10
  Mike Wollard is 83 with bad knees and a World War II veteran cap he’s never seen without. He was in the war stateside just before it ended and saw ...
  

• What’s the point of working out when you can work?

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 06
  What is the essential difference between work and working out? I’d say that work is done to achieve a result, while working out is spending lavish ...
  

• No game comes down to a single play; it just seems that way

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 03
  Elect to play sports and be prepared to be kneed in the groin, punched in the mouth, whacked in the head with a wet plank -all followed by a ...
  

• Read something twice and if I don’t get it, it was probably written by a lawyer

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 30
  I am a liberal arts-educated, easygoing sports guy with an incredible depth of diverse knowledge, having taken every undergraduate college course ...
  

• Sometimes good stories happen to lucky storytellers

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 27
  I always told my students that good stories happen to good storytellers but they said, “No, you are a magnet for stories, albeit a very large one. ...
  

• A great goal cage whack will ring my worthy bell

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 23
  Coach KK is the real deal. The former Kathleen Kochmansky, now Kathleen Fluharty, was a three-time All-American in field hockey and lacrosse at ...
  

• If an idiom is about to fly out of your mouth, cover it up and run home

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 20
  Grandmom Rose looked balefully at me as I flashed my first driver’s license and said, “As you strike out on the dating scene, remember not to date ...
  

• The relaxation of rules should benefit athletes by giving more flexibility

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 16
  The rules of engagement have been relaxed for coach contacts with athletes in the summer and it’s not all good because there is a downside. I’m ...
  

• Flashbacks and hallucinations of former Cape students real and imagined

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 13
  Eleanor Davis of Ellicott City, Md., celebrated her 85th birthday last Sunday by rolling around her first 5K in 44:36. Kelly Davis and B.K. ...
  

• Larry was a colorful character who kept it real

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 09
  Larry McLaughlin lived on my street since we both went country, and before that outside of Philly we were raised about a mile from each other. We ...
  

• Those who study history are condemned to remember it?

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 06
  Those who study history are condemned to remember it; the good news is in these modern millennium times, people respond to historical reference by ...
  

• Sit back, have friends over, watch from a safe distance; it’s better than soccer

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 02
  Tim Cisco is from upper central Pennsylvania and most days locally you will find him up a tree with a chain saw and ropes tied around him and a ...
  

• He was simply the best, better than all the rest

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 29
  Last Sunday at Cape Henlopen High School was the 15th running of the Bill Degnan 5K. Bill was the beloved teacher and track coach at Woodbridge ...
  

• The summer sports scene is making my head spin and hum

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 25
  My head is rotating like planet Earth; sometimes the light of sports knowledge is shining brightly inside my dome, but other times it’s dark with ...
  

• Park on any paved surface and you will be just fine

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 22
  The second turf field at Cape is getting set up for carpet bombing, but lights and permanent first-class bleachers still seem to flicker in the ...
  

• No, we are not all related but we like how our lives intersect

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 18
  I am solidly on my game, still crazy after all these years, still able to think on my feet although they sometimes hurt for no reason. Last ...
  

• If a sporting event happens and it isn’t reported, did it happen?

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 15
  There’s lots of sports stuff going on out there one week before the summer solstice. Just let me say if you want my skill spun on your summer ...
  

• When you are behind in the race, you have to step up the pace

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 11
  I have known Bill Collick for 35 years and he remains prime time all the time 24/7 nonstop unrelentingly Bill, and that’s his major strength, ...
  

• Enough hubbub; time to get this baby off the ground

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 08
  I have been inside most loops of secret stories since the three-ring days of Ballantine beer - a row-house boy with his head inside a truck tire ...
  

• Earning a place on the fridge ranks higher than the cover of S.I.

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 04
  Machine ball - Back in my grandparents’ day Poppy got a new machine every year and it simply meant a new car. Last Tuesday night, new millennium ...
  

• Bloated and basking, bordering on gloating, the celebration continues

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 01
  I am a 1955 fat cat on a hot rock, before small cans and dry food and engineered nutrition and declawing for pets ruined it all. I am bloated and ...
  

• Some things should not be said before they happen

  By Dave Frederick - May 28
  This column deadline is totally out of touch with the real-time world, sort of like most Sunday sermons, say it isn’t so, but unless you know the ...
  

• He ain’t heavy; he’s my turtle

  By Dave Frederick - May 25
  A three-legged dog limps into a Wyoming cowboy bar. “Can I help you?” asked the bartender. “I’m looking for the man who shot my paw,” the dog ...
  

• Sportsmanship is the right thing to proudly display

  By Dave Frederick - May 21
  I have gotten angry mail over the years for recounting some of my coaching philosophies passed on to my athletes, such as: “Always create the ...
  

• The eternal struggle for balance and perspective

  By Dave Frederick - May 18
  The days are crowded with clutter, mostly sports related in my world. I am in an eternal struggle for balance and perspective and actually stepped ...
  

• Please keep your personal punishments private

  By Dave Frederick - May 14
  Public weight-loss programs, beating the drum loudly because you haven’t smoked in six months and talking about how you haven’t had a drink in ...
  

• Monty Python: ‘Always look on the bright side of life’

  By Dave Frederick - May 11
  Four days and seven athletic events and three thousand pictures taken inspired me to reflect upon my life, “What is this all about?” I was ...
  

• Lessons taken out of context can sound stupid, cruel

  By Dave Frederick - May 07
  Liz Carpenter of Lewes was selected Virginia Tech women’s lacrosse most valuable player at the May 3 Hokies all-sports banquet. Liz was a first-tea...
  

• Women are smarter, tougher, more loyal and resilient

  By Dave Frederick - May 03
  Tell young people old stories with actual dates and numbers, and they instinctually step slightly backward as if longevity is a contagious ...
  

• That is just a wrong road to go down without the facts

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 30
  I am not an apologist for the Cape Henlopen School District and will not make excuses where outrageous claims are verified by hard and fast and ...
  

• An alien might conclude Eastern Sussex is fitness hub of universe

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 27
  Last Saturday morning I was the double intersection photographer-at-large in the town of Milton, staying a step ahead of the Little League parade ...
  

• Swing batter! Let’s hear some chatter out there!

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 23
  “I stand accused of the things I’ve done!” I intend to download the ringtone of that blues lament onto my iPhone, except I carry some dirty old ...
  

• I am funny, all day long; it’s just the way I pork roll

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 20
  Former Cape players Carrie Lingo and Maren Ford are former members of the U.S. National Field Hockey Team. Maren and Carrie played in an Olympic ...
  

• A sign of lasting trust is athletes who can share humor

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 15
  Some years back I actually did overhear two field hockey girls arguing over which one of them deserved the Unsung Hero Award for the season. And I ...
  

• Cape community will comfort, care because they are part of us

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 13
  A spring weekend lived to the fullest: sports and youth, hope and resiliency, and absolutely brilliantly beautiful weather. Hovering above all the ...
  

• Downside: Most people constantly crank about lack of perception

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 09
  There will be no baby strollers and no dogs allowed in the run portion of the event at this Sunday’s April 11 – here comes the long title - 8th ...
  

• Colt Brennan should hold out for a Tahoe with spinning rims

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 06
  Stupid people in decision-making positions exist in all professions and I’m sure you’re thinking of one right now. Just imagine the boneheads ...
  

• I’m going in search of a big ol’ coconut cream egg

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 02
  Friends and Atlantic Lacrosse and Cape teammates Bo Pratt of Wesleyan and Rory Rogan of the Merchant Marine Academy met on the lacrosse field ...
  

• It was just a year when the writers liked the Cape story the best

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 30
  Cape Henlopen has become a powerhouse of boys and girls lacrosse over the last 10 years having a major impact on the sports of baseball and ...
  

• Just don’t expect Cape to lament the loss of your brain

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 26
  Kyle White, who played point guard for Sussex Central then Cape Henlopen before going on to Delaware State then Goldey-Beacom, completed his ...
  

• Trying to track the madness of the NCAA tournament

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 23
  An older and quite proper-looking airplane passenger who looks like her name would be Penelope gazes out the window onto the tarmac as the ...
  

• My boy is just stoically strong and spiritually together

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 19
  On St. Patrick’s Day, Cape girls track coach of the last 34 years George Pepper marked off the discus sector with a rolling lime or flour dispenser...
  

• Flopping in frigid froth is a good way to spend a Sunday

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 16
  The 19th Polar Bear Plunge for Special Olympics Delaware in Rehoboth held Sunday, March 14, saw 2,323 times two pairs of feet charge the chop-chop ...
  

• I can see a picture of my face with an arrow - hit it here

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 11
  There is a retention pond beyond the outfield fence at Cape Henlopen’s Chris Short field that has water and ducks, and soon sunken home run balls ...
  

• Just a word to the wise for June bugs

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 08
  I’m usually OK with cash, but not last Saturday at the Bob after Cape upset St. Mark’s. I did my cardio climb to the concession zone and kept ...
  

• Every coach knows how to protect a player in foul trouble

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 05
  Bishop Egan basketball had not made the Philadelphia Catholic playoffs since the year I was the leading scorer in 1964. This year the team was ...
  

• Cape’s Kyle White becomes a milestone man at his college

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 02
  The screaming green surf and turf field at Legends Stadium has been cleared for spring takeoff as scholastic practices began Monday, March 1. On ...
  

• There are too many All-Americans running loose around here

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 26
  I get it but don’t like the commercial highjacking of outstanding high school athletes by McDonald’s and Gatorade. I hear “McDonald’s All-American”...
  

• Wrestling resumed and a good time was had by most but not all

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 23
  White noise is wireless infiltration from the world of restless spirits coming through as static electricity or just a high school wrestling riot ...
  

• I’m amazed how some teenage athletes can put on weight

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 19
  How does a projected “rain event” for this Monday turn into a 30-inch snowstorm? Local coastal lowlanders have become weather alarmists, sounding ...
  

• Bay Ball players are still tearing it up in college basketball

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 16
  The Bay Ball basketball tournament is gone from Cape, along with the Little Big House, but outstanding players from that tournament are still ...
  

• Granny rolls large and in charge in South Philly spin class

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 12
  A Bally Total Fitness Club in South Philadelphia forgot to tell Grandmom the policy of reserving certain bikes in advance of spin class had been ...
  

• What happened to all the good ol’ boys with hydraulic scoops?

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 09
  I have discovered a problem shared by others. When I admit that sports, music and entertainment celebrities attending South Beach power parties ...
  

• Coach Bill Collick to hang up headphones

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 05
  Thirty-five years and three Cape high schools ago, on a warm September Friday night in downtown Lewes, rookie Bill Collick stood on top of a press ...
  

• Milford and Cape join to celebrate conference crowns

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 02
  The Cape Henlopen women’s indoor track team ran away from the competition Wednesday, Jan. 27, at the Snow Hill (Md.) Indoor Arena to capture the ...
  

• You have to be a sociopath not to return respect

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 29
  I am clever, witty, entertaining and insightful, blessed with a depth and breadth of knowledge across a Harvard-like cross section of subjects ...
  

• What time is it? Roll out the chemistry set to find out and we’ll find out

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 26
  Last Saturday I found I could read 400 pages of the 700-page “Book of Basketball” by Bill Simmons while watching three consecutive college games ...
  

• How cool would that be to forever hold the 19,999 crooked number?

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 22
  Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs now moves a bit like the Tin Man in search of an oil can after too many years of basketball, which is the ...
  

• They are not about to limit out, as we salty dogs like to say

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 19
  The Cape girls lacrosse team is the newest of Cape sports – let’s call it an “add-on alternate” to keep with second turf field jargon - and played ...
  

• A coach can become dog meat for every complaining citizen

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 15
  The Cape boy’s basketball team lost to Dover at home 76-43 on opening night of the season Dec. 4, prompting a young mother, Cape graduate and ...
  

• They were trading the entire team and firing the coach by Sunday morning

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 12
  I watched all four games over wild card weekend and now all four winners must travel to the next round and become instant underdogs. The Jets at ...
  

• A second turf field to replace those giant dirt piles

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 08
  Baby Kaelyn Rodgers was born on New Year’s Day. Dave Kergaard is her maternal grandfather without the maternal instincts.  Dave Kergaard is a ...
  

• I envision a forest of tie-dyed rodents with heightened startle reflexes

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 05
  The last week was a blur of football bowl games and pro games and playoff permutations. And how can the brainy NFL set itself up to rerun three ...
  

• That time of year when strangers run amok trying to kiss people

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 31
  New Year’s Eve is my least favorite holiday. It has something to do with strangers running amok trying to kiss people. What kind of tradition is ...
  

• Get out the vacuum and prep for some serious downtime

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 29
  The showdown is just about to go down this Sunday, Jan. 3, when the Cowboys host the Eagles for the Eastern Division title and a home game on ...
  

• This is the time for end-of-year garbage stuff or even worse

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 23
  “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” - Hunter Thompson. I can spot a bad and bogus oddball quack 15 miles away which is the distance ...
  

• For some reason I actually showed up at a required district-wide in-service

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 22
  A soap-opera-long weekend for quarterbacks played out over the weekend in the NFL. Tony Romo was great, and Big Ben threw for over 500 yards, ...
  

• What does a Tiger do in the woods besides prowl for bimbos?

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 18
  There are scores of idealized gym people who are regimented and augmented, not to mention performance enhanced, so the rest of us have no chance. ...
  

• Win a state championship and the party never ends

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 15
  Welcome to the NFL Monday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday rotation. The Eagles are who I thought they were and so is Dallas, and with Green Bay a ...
  

• It shows us all that we really shouldn’t settle for much less

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 11
  I had the idea for this winter’s sports season to devote one of the windows in the Athlete of the Week section to a student/athlete from out of ...
  

• Cape’s great women players to be honored

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 08
  The first women’s game at Cape’s new Little Big House will be Friday night, Dec. 11, versus Milford. I am putting together a special recognition ...
  

• Behavior and freedom to make bad choices fall back on the individual

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 03
  I will not drop the names of local athletes I have covered and written about who were recently arrested on gun charges, recklessly endangering ...
  

• Good stuff, a great life, a story all about family and community?

  By Dave Frederick - Dec 01
  I can picture a championship baseball or softball game on a sun-drenched field and a crowd of 1,000 “Pop Pop’s only” in the stands. A dugout ...
  

• Darla actually lived in Lewes during her retirement years

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 25
  I was taking pictures at last Saturday’s marathon, actually a thousand photos, and over the years some people have mistakenly identified me as ...
  

• There’s no way I have short-term lapses, only relapses

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 24
  Last Saturday was a three-sport day that began with taking pictures of 700 runners rolling down a trail on a mission to finish what they started, ...
  

• Cilento gets credit for making a decision and taking some flak

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 20
  Sportsmanship is a concept easily spoken but often elusive when put to the test. Both Sussex Tech and Cape will fly DIAA sportsmanship banners ...
  

• The winning touchdown was a penalty but not called

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 17
  With a few minutes left in Saturday’s Cape football season at Smyrna, I asked the down-marker guy on the chain gang to point out the Eagles’ head ...
  

• The best social groups are the ones thrown together around a table

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 13
  I don’t mean to be negative, but it’s in my blood. I am universal donor guy so I am frequently called by the Blood Bank and always agree to come ...
  

• For some kids the school family is the best family they’ve got

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 10
  I announced the senior cheerleaders, managers and football players before the game last Friday night. As always, some parents who are living and ...
  

• The real wild card in the field hockey tourney will be the Ravens

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 06
  I would have walked to Philly from Lewes for the parade if they had come back from a 3-1 deficit, but with the pitching staff unraveling like a ...
  

• Someday in my future I’ll be rocking to a beat only I can hear

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 03
  A Fredman original sports column has appeared each week in the resort region uninterrupted and the last eight years twice a week since 1982. I, ...
  

• Cape’s undefeated field hockey team looks blue-light fast

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 30
  Cape’s undefeated varsity field hockey team looked blue-light fast Wednesday night at Legends Stadium - call it sports relativity. The Vikings are ...
  

• Everywhere I go to play or work, things are being torn down

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 27
  Holy Toledo! Aunt Rose dropped 25 pounds and has just registered on the bathroom scale at 349 and change. But more incredible is Temple University’...
  

• I’m thinking about covering the game as a Giant Juggalo

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 23
  I would rather take a beating than be stuck in the post-party Philly bar screaming into dead spaces and faces because the Phillies won the ...
  

• Words can have a myriad of meanings

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 20
  A crazy weekend in sports where a University of Connecticut football cornerback is stabbed outside a campus party and dies, and three runners in ...
  

• For a half a million I’d play middle linebacker without a helmet

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 16
  Cross country is the easiest of sports to score. There are seven runners per team, a runner gets the number of their finish and the top five are ...
  

• My job in life is to pay attention

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 13
  Three of the four divisional series in baseball were sweeps - only the Phillies and Rockies are providing any drama and, speaking as a Phillies ...
  

• I am a conduit of uninvited criticisms and counter-arguments

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 08
  The Phillies are fun when they win, but that bullpen will bite them because it is just empty of real talent, and I think Brad Lidge will get his ...
  

• It seems to me like riff-raff is driving the policy

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 06
  Sussex Tech has a “side out” policy at home football games. If you want to visit the other side of the field you have to leave the stadium and pay ...
  

• My Chico, sure as heck, isn’t doing any oil burner laps

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 02
  Why do 1,000 people get up early on a rain-driven Sunday morning and drive to Milton to run in a race called the Dogfish Dash? Is it because they ...
  

• A hockey hotbed in Sussex

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 29
  Last Tuesday night at Legends Stadium “hockey was in the house!” Two of the state’s best teams, Sussex Tech and Cape Henlopen, got after each ...
  

• There was commotion in the ocean as 2,500 competed

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 25
  There was commotion in the ocean last weekend as two days of triathlons attracted more than 2,500 competitors, first to the Dewey Beach Sprint ...
  

• The game was a happening; someday the Hornets are going to sting the Hens

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 22
  Scores of people, regardless of college affiliation, just wanted to see Delaware State at Delaware be a respectable football game. I spoke to many ...
  

• Community concern is often a referendum on character

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 18
  Brian Tappan, Cape student and lacrosse player, suffered a serious spinal injury after an ATV accident - that we all know. And, right or wrong, ...
  

• How good would Cape football have been with all those athletes?

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 15
  There’s one thing we can learn from a fat sporting dog. The more you toss them food the more ravenous they become, the better they catch rather ...
  

• How about a midnight bike tour through rough neighborhoods?

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 11
  More Philly fans “down here” than Baltimore or Washington, but the truth is most are fans of Eagles, Ravens or Redskins and not fans of the actual ...
  

• Real guy kickoff weekend coming up

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 08
  A laptop and two high-definition flat screens are the minimum required to follow football and baseball in September. I watched Brad Lidge blow a ...
  

• We just built a new high school, so why are we washing cars?

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 04
  There has been no “blow back” from my column going full-bore super-soaker Shawala on a boosters club for putting three young girls - one related ...
  

• Second Chance Vick may send quarterback A.J. Feeley packing

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 01
  Eagles fourth-team quarterback A.J. Feeley, now 32 years old, passed for 5,428 yards and 54 touchdowns during his high school career in Oregon. He ...
  

• Who is in charge and responsible for students at a fundraiser?

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 28
  Boneheaded is the word I’m trying to avoid but it is the only word left for me to match with field hockey boosters. Last Sunday there was a car ...
  

• Throw A-Rod out of baseball or let Pete Rose into the hall

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 25
  Andrew Williams, a 32-year-old fit and sober young man, lives in Lewes and teaches and coaches at Del Tech in Dover. He was strolling through ...
  

• You’ll hear terms like ‘bragging rights’ being bantered about

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 21
  On Saturday, Sept. 19, Delaware State will play the University of Delaware in Newark, the first-ever regular season game between the two schools. ...
  

• Michael Vick cleans up better than a battered fighting dog

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 18
  Staying loyal when times are tough is like keeping a secret on the promise, “Certainly, I won’t tell anybody.” I know football organizations, ...
  

• I could scatter 11 hits over five innings for that kind of jack

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 14
  Jamie Moyer sat in the Chicago dugout looking like a sad sack while staring at his cleats. He summoned the press to tell them he was despondent at ...
  

• We can take your job anytime we want for whatever reason

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 11
  I got this email from former Cape cross country and track coach Pat Pollock last week and thought I should share it as he may be a lt. colonel in ...
  

• Here’s another good role model story for young athletes

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 07
  Todd Herremans and Juqua Parker, a pair of Eagle defensive starters, were pulled over a few days ago near training camp because Herremans’ ...
  

• Boosters may not be the root, but Roberts still was blindsided

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 04
  Back it down, Fredboy! If you can’t offend your friends once in a while, what good are you as a columnist? The last column I insinuated that the ...
  

• I’m soap boxing here, but I owe a certain loyalty to the coaches I cover

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 31
  There is the entire road racing phenomenol - triathlons and other endurance events that attract athletes across the age groups, but masters track ...
  

• Do small states engage in the smallest arguments?

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 28
  The PIAA, the governing body for scholastic sports in the state of Pennsylvania, decided to move the sport of girls soccer from the spring to the ...
  

• In sports, fairness isn’t part of that quadratic equation

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 23
  There ain’t no justice in sports and if sports truly prepares a person for life - the microcosm argumen t - they teach an awareness that hard ...
  

• Released into the greater human zoo filled with bad lifestyle choices

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 21
  Last Sunday morning I sat stoned in the front seat of my 4-Runner sweating out residual morphine and readjusting to the quicker pace of the ...
  

• So what does waterboarding have to do with sports?

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 17
  What does waterboarding have to do with sports? Are you serious? Years ago John the Blacksmith and I used to go “plywooding” in the canal through ...
  

• That’s what most guys do because we’re always ready to be nursed

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 14
  Tim Stauffer was the fourth pick in the 2003 Major League draft chosen by the San Diego Padres. The University of Richmond right-hander is the ...
  

• Funerals are easy compared to saving the life of a person

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 10
  My good friend Dave Kergaard is going on five weeks past hip replacement surgery - his second - and showed me an autographed football sent to him ...
  

• Do you know the difference between book smart and street smart?

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 07
  I have to find out from the Bagel Buddha Dave Vitella that Tyler Townsend has signed a minor league contract and is now playing with the Aberdeen ...
  

• I was riding the bike because old athletes never die, we just recycle

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 03
  Last Tuesday morning I drove past the valet staff dressed in red and black by the west wing entrance to Beebe Medical Center and into an uneven ...
  

• A decorated track star chased a gator through the streets of Lewes

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 30
  The 14th annual Bill Degnan 5K race attracted 110 runners last Sunday morning, June 28. Tim Bamforth and I shared the lead the entire race. We ...
  

• We lasted seven before being kicked off for breaches of etiquette

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 26
  Sixteen-year-old Kameron Chandler, a student athlete and dynamic personality with natural leadership qualities based on his strong Christian ...
  

• I am hoping Bobby can be put back together

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 23
  There should be a rule that anyone who yells, “Get in the hole!” after a professional golfer tees off on a par five be immediately banished to a ...
  

• I was having flashbacks to the days of vintage uniforms

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 19
  Gold Coach Mike Tkach screamed “Heavy package!” during the Gold team scrimmage last Wednesday night and all I could think of was my German aunts ...
  

• Just duck if you see a Pittsburgh transplant headed your way

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 16
  There are no cool clothes for big guys, which is why I wear double X Under Armour every day except for the occasional gift shirt like my Greene ...
  

• The trick is to use the dork in all of us the first time

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 12
  Great artists don’t paint every day and deep thinkers mostly cogitate and vegetate because, just like athletes and race horses, the mind can only ...
  

• The walk of life is the journey we all take together

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 09
  Last Saturday morning, June 6, the Great Strides walk and 5K to raise awareness and funds for cystic fibrosis left The Grove park in Rehoboth at 8 ...
  

• Athletes need to be held to the higher ultimate standard

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 05
  Athletes on sports teams know everything about each other including who parties during the season using alcohol and/or recreational drugs. ...
  

• I know exactly what it’s like to be the other guy

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 02
  Mark Petitgout is the 29-year-old younger brother of former NFL offensive lineman and first-round draft pick out of Notre Dame by way of Sussex ...
  

• Finally, some information readers might find useful

  By Dave Frederick - May 29
  Summer sports camps may be fun, especially for empty nest parents still in their prime, but they are not generally funny because how do you find ...
  

• Teams don’t need to be in that position

  By Dave Frederick - May 26
  The Cape lacrosse girls beat St. Andrew’s last Thursday night and went into a diving dog pile of celebration in the center of the field. The St. ...
  

• True sportsmanship is just the essence of some athletes

  By Dave Frederick - May 22
  DIAA awards a sportsmanship trophy to member schools that comply with certain criteria with documentation, but the pursuit of a sportsmanship ...
  

• The riff-raff posse stays indoors when the sun is high in the sky

  By Dave Frederick - May 19
  The Saturday DIAA state track meet was four team titles contested each over 18 events with all schools public and private represented. All ...
  

• A few snapshots of athletes I meet in my travels

  By Dave Frederick - May 15
  This column is devoted to images on my sports beat captured with a long lens with no staging or direction to the subjects who always ignore me ...
  

• No coach enjoys compromising a commitment to excellence

  By Dave Frederick - May 12
  Ray Jackson, a former Delaware Titan, Little League star and Cape center fielder, is still playing baseball like his buddies Sean Tappan, Tyler ...
  

• His job is to help good kids out of bad situations

  By Dave Frederick - May 08
  I am inclined to write a sentence on Cape’s intervention specialist like - “Otis Blackburn is a good guy with a bad job” - a play on words ...
  

• I always considered myself a bad technique coach

  By Dave Frederick - May 05
  Still photography freezes bad form in the sport of track where technique trumps everything that isn’t speed and power. Non-arching high jumpers ...
  

• They don’t need some remote perspective draped over their accomplishments

  By Dave Frederick - May 01
  Are you serious? - Jacqui Ritter was the honorary starter for last Friday’s Autism Awareness Day, with a one-lap walk and later a run I dubbed the ...
  

• Parade story only mildly amusing

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 28
  Last Saturday morning I was the guy taking pictures at a Little League parade even though my grandmother always told me, “Don’t be that guy!” But ...
  

• How do you punish kids who don’t care?

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 24
  You just have to be related to travel 30 miles to watch an away girls soccer game of two 40-minute halves that begins at 7 p.m. And last Tuesday, ...
  

• Runner Bob Sanders says bare feet prevent injury

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 21
  Bob Sanders set a record Sunday, April 12, at the Cape Henlopen Educational Foundation 10K by covering the distance in bare feet. “Running ...
  

• Don’t put the blame on McDonald’s or pizza or hoagies

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 17
  April 14 was the golden anniversary of McDonald’s and they are still rocking introducing new products like McGriddle cakes and sausage not to ...
  

• Marathoners are compelled to conquer the distance

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 14
  A marathon is 26.2 miles, and it is a standard tens of thousands of amateur runners have felt compelled to conquer. I watch people watch me when I ...
  

• Mixed messages: if you say no correlation you could be wrong

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 10
  Shot and discus thrower D.J. Reed wanted to run the high hurdles Monday, April 6, at Caesar Rodney. “And he wants to run them again,” smiled coach ...
  

• State too small for so much mistrust

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 07
  Last Saturday’s baseball game at Cape versus visiting A.I. duPont was well attended by fans from both schools. Early in the game, the umpire ...
  

• Here’s the long and short of hip surgery

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 03
  Back in 1977-78 I coached Cape cross country and track to a pair of state championships and ran the Lewes Marathon wearing all white in 3:38 with ...
  

• Running up a sand dune overweight, hungry is the real challenge

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 31
  RUN FOR FUN - An April Fools guess the distance race run Sunday, March 29, is odd enough and that many happy folks running all terrain in the rain ...
  

• What a great idea...in an Alfred Hitchcock kind of way

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 27
  Feed me information. And while you’re at it feed me free food. I cover professional and college sports, and they give me all kinds of information ...
  

• Why not piggyback on energy of youth?

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 24
  Adults over 30 are mostly resistant to change especially when it’s driven by those too young and deficit-deprived to foresee consequences and who ...
  

• I’m just mad I didn’t get to rock a Greene Turtle T-shirt for Saint Patrick’s Day

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 20
  If I hear the words “Greene Turtle” one more time as I’m standing at a lacrosse game, I am going to yawn. I’m starting to get it! Everyone - boy ...
  

• Field hockey fans retreat from Little Big House battle

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 17
  Local interest groups, in particular the field hockey lobbies, have backed down from their attempts to save “The Little Big House,” a building ...
  

• Ignominious ending just the beginning

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 13
  Americans die in full-powered slippery bathrooms every morning. “Ignominious endings,” my grandmother called them. Let’s say you’re washing your ...
  

• Power of love propels Smyrna; Cape's love train has left station

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 10
  I noticed something really good going on at a Smyrna basketball game two years ago and wrote about it. These people are unified and cool and seem ...
  

• Fishing and flying both safe, but losing can be big

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 06
  I have seen that look in the eyes of people who fish for real with gold-plated reels. It’s all about the acquisition of fish; the only rational ...
  

• Cape girls, boys, Christian boys head to tourney

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 03
  The Cape girls basketball team will host the Padua Pandas Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. in the first round of the 24-team, DIAA state basketball ...
  

• All Cape Henlopen all the time, except at the polls

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 27
  Board member Spencer Brittingham tapped me on the shoulder in the early moments of the third quarter during last Tuesday night’s basketball game ...
  

• News flash: I wear two-figure shirts for a six-figure income

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 24
  Retired Cape physics teacher John Sarik sees and hears a world most people ignore. Lately, I’ve been seeing John at Cape boys games because he is ...
  

• We had to invent ADD to account for adult slowness at getting to the point

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 20
  PowerPoint presentations are so yesterday. And that’s because technology keeps moving and improving. Salvage yards now have an entire section ...
  

• You hear it ‘down here in Delaware’ anywhere there’s a boat ramp

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 17
  I took a picture of a 4-year-old waiting for her mother to finish last Saturday’s Valentine’s Day 5K at Cape Henlopen State Park just because she ...
  

• Last time I checked, the game was about character

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 13
  Medical experts recently reported that there is a small window of opportunity for the certified-obese-at-the-very-least person to change behaviors ...
  

• Who is crazier, hockey fathers or wrestling mothers?

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 10
  At a home wrestling match versus Smyrna Friday, Feb. 6, I heard a man yell “hamster head,” and I was going to stand up and say, “Who you calling ...
  

• Who is waxing the alleys, causing the Hornets to slip?

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 06
  The Delaware State Lady Keglers posted wins over No. 1 Vanderbilt and No. 2 Nebraska, then slipped from fourth to fifth in the National Tenpin ...
  

• I moved in for the interview because I’m all about sports history

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 03
  I was the photographer in a one-size-doesn’t-fit-me molded plastic chair last Friday night taking pictures of a high school wrestling match while ...
  

• Community service without a court sentence

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 30
  “Mammals Mammals … their names are called, they raise a paw.”– “Mammals” by They Might Be Giants There is not a warm-blooded mammal on the ...
  

• Some stories behind the DSBA banquet

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 27
  Amelia and John Knarr operate Elite Fitness on the second floor of the Stein building on the Rehoboth Boardwalk. They are both physical therapists ...
  

• It’s a different planet he hails from when a lacrosse game’s in front of him

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 23
  People already get it, you don’t need me to tell you. Mark D’Ambrogi, the Vikings’ head lacrosse coach, has been the best head coach at Cape over ...
  

• Why so aggressive? What happened to the form tackle?

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 20
  I watch too much professional football and as I observe defensive backs with arms too big launching themselves into ball carriers packing the ...
  

• I can bust a move myself, but only when no one is looking

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 16
  Red Lion Christian beat the Ferris School for Boys 68-56 Tuesday night, Jan. 13, to go 10-1 on the season while Ferris dropped to 0-2. Ferris ...
  

• It’s a leap of faith to have these two groups on the same trail

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 25
  Five hundred marathon runners on a brutally frigid and windy Saturday morning hitting the wall at the 20-mile mark and what is the last thing they ...
  

• State tourney appearance puts the goblins to bed

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 21
  Basketball season is about to begin, which can only mean that Tony Hazzard is about to bust out his wardrobe, but only for the big games. Tony is ...
  

• Do you know what to do when your pocket begins to collapse?

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 18
  Dan Dierdorf said of Eli Manning: “One of the nicest things you can say about a quarterback is that he has pocket awareness.” And if you’re not a ...
  

• I have never aspired to anything of the year

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 14
  The Connecticut College Camels play in the small college NESCAC up in snowy New England with the Colby Mules, Tufts Jumbos – an elephant is the ...
  

• The big old bear was soft of heart and his players could sense that

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 11
  Coach Dave McDowell won his first game as a head coach in 1996 and was given a signed game ball by the team. That ball was buried with his father ...
  

• Every Friday night is another opportunity to get crazy

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 07
  Cape waited for the court last Saturday night as the tall and pony-tailed Ursuline Red Raider volleyball team warmed up in black shirts taking ...
  

• Soundman was asleep at the wheel

  By Dave Frederick - Nov 04
  “The thing coach [John] Harbaugh likes about his rookie quarterback [Joe] Flacco is that he’s never inconsiderate with the football.” - Moose ...
  

• If I find them, I may go O.J. and ask for their return

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 31
  When Nate Carnevale sent home the game winner against Sussex Tech for a 2-1 soccer victory, I already knew that his father had played basketball ...
  

• The best magic of all

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 28
  Magic Jack Noel is a fit little bugger and a great guy who ran his first race last Sunday as a 70-year-old. Jack is a retired telephone company ...
  

• Barrel racing, new shoes, midnight madness, sets of sisters

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 24
  Poco is a good old mare, a trail horse who turned out to be a nice barrel horse. Hannah Beck, a seventh-grader at Mariner Middle School, rides the ...
  

• I’m going to get a brick so I can cry every time I look at it

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 21
  Suddenly a bunch of big men start screaming, “Unbalanced!” and I start looking for Charles Manson on the sidelines. But football coaches freak ...
  

• If the gates of heaven squeak, Doney will let St. Peter know

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 17
  Dick Doney, retired Cape guidance counselor and my friend in Lewes from day one, passed away last Wednesday. Back in the early ‘80s, Doney, as ...
  

• ‘When the going gets weird the weird turn pro’

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 14
  Sarah Palin dropped the first puck of the season in Philly last Saturday night before the Rangers at Flyers game as the blue-collar crowd booed ...
  

• I’ve threatened to write a manual for athletes, coaches

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 10
  I was a little surprised to find myself writing a hockey story and the consecutive words Red Lion Christian Lions. First of all, my mane man, what ...
  

• Simpson belongs in jail because he is truly dangerous

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 07
  High school kids rarely use the word crazy or even insane, preferring a phrase like, “O.J. Simpson is straight-up mental.” That’s why 13 years ago ...
  

• I’m the Rainman of sports crowd counters

  By Dave Frederick - Oct 03
  I am the radar brain traffic controller of the local sports scene. I know what balls are in the air at all times. I have heard more poor renditions...
  

• A comedian on a personal attack commits the worst of all sins

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 30
  Solidly 15 or 20 years ago, give or take two or three, the Renaissance Rednecks convoyed out of Lewes under cover of morning darkness on a ...
  

• Substitution pattern is a mystery to players and fans

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 26
  The Sussex Academy of Arts and Sciences was at Beacon Middle School last Monday for a soccer game. They left Beacon in the rear view mirror with a ...
  

• I have no desire to shoot cannons or Punkin Chunkin machines

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 23
  The organized fitness activity numbers are up but the level of fitness is way off. Maybe there is a good reason like people have real jobs and ...
  

• How can 33 million people watch the Eagles lose to Dallas?

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 19
  Ryan “Pop Tart” Whibley is hosting baseball workouts for anyone in grades 6–12 at the high school field on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5 p.m.  Whibs ...
  

• I had that vision, so I said no to the job

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 16
  I must admit after watching Redskins head coach Jim Zorn in his first press conference following a loss to the Giants, I thought with his bed-head ...
  

• Only those who don’t work hard should be assigned fictitious names

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 12
  Two weeks ago there was a picture in People in Sports of my nephew Mike Frederick with Cape’s two starting defensive ends. Mike was the only ...
  

• I was the worst football official in the history of the world

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 09
  Dick Vermeil is 72 years old and still as unrelentingly energetic as he was when he led the Eagles into the Super Bowl in 1980. Vermeil was also ...
  

• People who live here have no shortage of weather theories

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 05
  In September 1975 on a horrendously stormy night I stood in a Lewes building on Sussex Drive known as The Annex. I was an assistant football coach ...
  

• Turning down free food is just plain rude

  By Dave Frederick - Sep 02
  We all know that diet and exercise work but are boring and that really skinny people are obsessively disciplined with frightening personality ...
  

• Not a hint of what the coach is talking about

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 29
  The Stephan Decatur defense was battling to keep Cape out of the end zone at last Wednesday night’s scrimmage. After a pileup at the goal line ...
  

• Things don’t always add up like your checking account

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 26
  There is an old refrigerator in the converted closet that serves now as the Cape coaching office, and when everyone goes out to practice, it is ...
  

• Cape will need all the kinetic energy it can generate

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 22
  I nicknamed him “Stealth” because Cape physics teacher John Hilton flies so fast off the radar screen he appears stationary, an ironic profile for ...
  

• Athletes make up names for each other in summer sports

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 19
  I needed no stimulus to alert and remind me that two days earlier I made a stupid mistake. I was slogging along the bike trail last Saturday ...
  

• Viewers will legitimize anything as a sport

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 15
  If you were an aging, rescued-from-the-pound “sorta-spaniel” with a dash of poodle thrown in just lounging off the pitch of an up-and-down soccer ...
  

• Summer Olympics 2008: Let’s get quizzical!

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 12
  Women’s gymnastics is mostly freakish to watch and in the steroid era it is certainly different to ponder the lack of estrogen, period (you’ll ...
  

• Kids just get pulled and tugged

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 08
  It takes a village to raise a child but it takes travel ball to take the kid on the road. I am hearing stories about conflicts and commitments ...
  

• All who participated are shameless and blameless

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 05
  “I’m your Venus; I’m your fire at your desire.” Pirate Pete, with a Ph.D in hand and a Mensa Society card in his wallet and shirt somewhere in ...
  

• That’s the end of that argument

  By Dave Frederick - Aug 01
  Big Tom, my 6-foot-6, off-the-Toledo-balance-beam brother who played for Rip Engel at Penn State, just had an operation at the Fox Chase Cancer ...
  

• I find spontaneous sportsmanship inspiring

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 29
  Athletes understand brotherhood better than anyone except for maybe Marines. Last Sunday at the YMCA 5-Miler it was Jamaican man Enos Benbow, 26, ...
  

• Hockey, lacrosse camps dog the days of summer

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 25
  All camps and all games have been hot all the time over the last week but for Coach KK’s “You Gotta Love It” field hockey camp at Rehoboth ...
  

• There’s no such thing as job security or due process

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 22
  Last Saturday morning I was a guest of Anthony Joseph on WGMD’s half hour sports radio program beginning at 11:30 a.m. The program leading up to ...
  

• I’m just doing my job raising the questions

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 18
  The Rehoboth All-Stars lost to Lower Sussex last Tuesday night 4-2 and were eliminated from the tournament that keeps going on as long as you keep ...
  

• Vanderwende: a relentless runner, working farmer

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 15
  Out on the sports beat there is no nicer guy than the relentless runner and working farmer from Bridgeville, Breck Vanderwende. Last Saturday ...
  

• Hand someone 725 pounds and something’s going to get broken

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 11
  Some dude named Steve Green at a West Coast powerlifting meet suffered what experts of the sport of powerlifting called an increasingly common ...
  

• To tell the truth I’m up to my eyeballs with Tootells

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 08
  Asking is an invitation to tell a story. I took a picture of Emma, 2, and Ryder, 1, Tootell kicking back in a carriage after the start of the ...
  

• Fit enough to hang on and fat enough to stay inside

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 03
  This weekend back in 1999 I was a passenger in my own 4-Runner driven by my high school friend Joe McCann. We were hit broadside in Odessa at ...
  

• Once married to a lie it’s hard to divorce back to reality

  By Dave Frederick - Jul 01
  Most tales of sports exaggerations I can spot minutes before they’re fully developed and I usually warn people: “I am not the person you want to ...
  

• Bay Ball: no pay ball

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 27
  When I first came to Lewes, friends from Philly would ask me, “What are the public schools like down there?” I would answer, “A reflection of the ...
  

• I want to see beads of sweat in high definition

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 24
  I walked west down Columbia Avenue off Broad Street at night in the fall of 1965 with 10 one-dollar bills in my pocket in case I had to buy ...
  

• Coach Marshall was a Lewes boy and first-class person

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 20
  I stuck the dismount of the stationary bike at Gold’s Gym last Wednesday morning after the computer gave me all my readouts from 30 minutes of ...
  

• Following codes of comedy, I’m allowed to make fun of Q-Tips

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 16
  A person who is not me speculated, at 11 a.m. on referendum day, that passage looked doubtful because of the Q-Tip factor and when I feigned a ...
  

• One fat doughnut doesn’t change your appearance

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 13
  Packer Avenue, a block off Broad Street near the stadium complex, is a neighborhood sports bar big enough to host an arena football game. I was ...
  

• What do a lion and a dog have in common?

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 10
  Norman Rockwell’s paintings in the Saturday Evening Post were said to capture images of Americana - lots of kids and neighborhoods and things we ...
  

• Don’t get in that grouchy line

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 06
  A starting left tackle on the University of Delaware national championship football team, Trip DelCampo is now two years away from being Dr. ...
  

• I can keep a secret, but I’m not holding on to any jokes

  By Dave Frederick - Jun 03
  Samantha Fernandez was my student at Cape back in 2003, the year she graduated. She didn’t play sports or belong to any specific social group that ...
  

• Putting it on the line and getting things done

  By Dave Frederick - May 30
  The athletes are the alpha dogs of high school. The Alpha males and females are the leaders of the social group of students. Cape athletes ...
  

• In the end, it's all a head game

  By Dave Frederick - May 27
  I tried to interview sophomore Dan Steele after last Saturday’s state lacrosse championship, but after a few stupid questions at which Dan only ...
  

• Borrow the gas money and vote yes

  By Dave Frederick - May 23
  The first Senior Day in 39 years of Cape baseball history was held last Monday, May 19, and there I was behind a plugged-in podium perched between ...
  

• When did I become banner boy?

  By Dave Frederick - May 20
  Amada Mandujano is Sussex County’s más grande de México - largest Mexican - and as long as he keeps smiling I will keep calling him that. Amado is ...
  

• A relative waiver will get you in

  By Dave Frederick - May 16
  Cody Palmer plays attack for Dover High and Wednesday, May 14, the sophomore scored three goals in a 14-9 win over Delmar. On Tuesday, May 13, ...
  

• Those pesky Pop Tarts show up in the strangest places

  By Dave Frederick - May 13
  The Seaford pole vaulter has a pole rated 155 pounds and a new rule has the athlete weighing in prior to vaulting to make sure he doesn’t weigh ...
  

• Their job is oversight, outta sight

  By Dave Frederick - May 09
  DEADLY DISTRACTION - I was just trying to watch a lacrosse game last Wednesday night, so why did the royal blue and yellow hard-bellied Rider ...
  

• How cool would that be for community relations?

  By Dave Frederick - May 06
  FLAG FOOTBALL - Perhaps the YMCA flag football league is the place where former quarterbacks go to decompress. I saw former Cape signal-caller ...
  

• We are lucky; we live at the beach!

  By Dave Frederick - May 02
  FOUR NAKED GUYS - Speaking of Cape dress codes, out in the trophy case are four plaques that depict a rear view of four naked relay runners being ...
  

• U.S field hockey team, Lingo headed to summer Olympics

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 29
  BEST IN SHOW – Here’s a little pointer: Maurice Pointer is the dog you always want to bet on in a masters foot race. The 52-year-old master runner ...
  

• I see athletic people who don’t have a clue how to play the game

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 25
  PINK - “I’m coming up, you better get this party started.” Many know him as the basketball official “Mears,” but friends know him as “Pink” as in ...
  

• It’s all about muskrat lust, herding deer and treeing racoons

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 22
  MARSH MADNESS - Muck diving, truck driving and a Sussex County comical dog not worth nothing outside of eating Wawa donuts and snagging pizza ...
  

• Dugouts from Cold War era are monuments to a simpler time

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 18
  INCONGRUENCE - I don’t know the value of real estate in Rehoboth, just that I can barely afford to slow down when passing through city limits. And ...
  

• The difference between these two track teams is paper thin

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 15
  WEIGH IN HILLARY - I am up to the eyeballs with coveted green jacket stories and I watched the final coverage last Sunday in high definition as ...
  

• They need a smack down to prove they’re committed to their beliefs

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 11
  HANGING WITH THE FELLAS - True story - I come from a background spent studying psychology and working in clinical settings. I had my own practice ...
  

• Just throw moon dust over the past like it never happened

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 08
  GATORADE TIGER - Tiger Woods is alright - I don’t mind him, but I don’t find him particularly charismatic except when he went F Bomb psycho on ...
  

• If I get mired down in the rules I can’t enjoy the game

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 04
  RULES FOR FOOLS - I have watched more sporting events and paid more attention than anyone in the history of planet earth and I realize what I ...
  

• The absurdities and inequities are beginning to rile me

  By Dave Frederick - Apr 01
  SHAM I AM - The Bay Ball Classic basketball tournament of 2007, in which Cape signed on as a cosponsor without a check in hand, was then hastily ...
  

• The game is going or has gone more to the soft side

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 28
  CHUCKY’S BACK! - You have to be old school to know that Tracy Jones, the dad, goes by Chucky. My basketball bird dogs roaming the countryside gyms ...
  

• Cape district needs a sports hall of fame and it needs one now

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 25
  BRACKET BETRAYAL - I am a nondistinguished member of an online bracket pool for the NCAA men’s tournament, but I’m such a schizoid maniac that I ...
  

• Hulking high school looms over new green turf field

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 21
  MARSH MONSTER HIGH - Stand on the new green turf field with your foot on a soccer ball and as you look east up on the rise there she sits, Marsh ...
  

• That name is my copyright and soon it will be my space of emptiness

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 18
  FRIAR CONNECTION - Robin and his merry men were captured and boiled in oil except for Tuck because he was a fryer. The Friars of Malvern Prep from ...
  

• We’re a cosmopolitan center of indoor and outdoor sports

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 14
  MISREMEMBER - It was Steve Welsh who reminded me that it was Roger Clemens who used the term “misremember” after I misremembered the event leading ...
  

• It's called the athletic intelligence quotient

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 11
  TRIGGER PERSON - Basketball has point guards while lacrosse and soccer have that all-purpose midfielder who runs with a head on a swivel and makes ...
  

• Be sure to stalk that talent ’cause it’ll make you look smart

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 07
  TALENT POOL - The more sports offered by a school during a season the more diluted the underground spring that feeds the talent pool. Cape went ...
  

• Jerry Kobasa: That was the classiest thing I’ve seen all year

  By Dave Frederick - Mar 04
  ELENA - Nice kid and a super person - you just don’t get any better than her and that’s all aside from Elena Delle Donne being the best high ...
  

• They were possessed of the one true message and felt no pain

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 29
  DO I CARE? - Did you ever hear a coach talk about his team’s overall GPA and the fact that most of them take honors classes and advanced placement?...
  

• Why am I such a lonely voice on the Little Big House issue?

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 26
  TEAR THE HOUSE DOWN! - The Henlopen Conference boys basketball final was double-decker madness last Saturday afternoon as Cape’s Little Big House ...
  

• He’s young and still learning how to put it all together

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 22
  GRAY SHIRT - Carl Hinton is a Sussex Central football and basketball athlete who has been recruited by Delaware State University as a tight end ...
  

• Is that money flying around or is it just sitting there?

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 19
  OFF CAMERA - Cape wrestling coach Dale Eckrote locked up with his freshman son Ian just off the corner of mat 2 during the semifinals of last ...
  

• On the court, the laws of physics get turned upside down

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 15
  SLEAZE BALL - Trainer Brian McNamee isn’t the only person going around calling himself doctor armed with a degree from a university with no ...
  

• It goes beyond people we loved enduring inside us

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 12
  HEARTS FOR HAXTON - The body is temporal while the spirit endures. Last Sunday morning Amanda Haxton’s spirit lifted away freeing itself from a ...
  

• Snippets, snippets and more snippets

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 08
  SNIPPETS - Brycen Davis, a 2007 Cape graduate and two-event state champion on the track in the 200 and 400 meters, placed third in the 400 meters ...
  

• Cheating is like security - it’s all in or all out

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 05
  PLAYERS AND SPECTATORS - Perhaps hundreds of millions of football fans sat and watched the Super Bowl last Sunday, which is great, but how many ...
  

• Sound of one punch snapping enough to scare mortal men

  By Dave Frederick - Feb 01
  GREAT WHITE DOPE - Jerry Quarry was once dubbed by Muhammed Ali as the Great White Dope who had the “complexion to make the connection.” Later, ...
  

• At least try to fool someone that the moment is one to savor

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 29
  WOMEN ALL-STATERS - I scanned a list of All-State players for girls basketball, which begins in 1982. I have listed Cape and other related players ...
  

• If you miss a legend of the past they are bound to find you

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 25
  TIRED EYEBALLS - Last week I listed first team All-State players of local interest going back to 1949. I was squinting, messing with small print, ...
  

• Back when everybody knew everybody else

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 22
  MRS. HANLEY - I am old school but a generation short of the storied period of a Lewes lost to the pages of old yearbooks and oral histories. That ...
  

• We all know tourists don’t go home no more

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 18
  FIRST TEAM ALL-STATERS - My training as a sportswriter goes back to mentor Dick Dougherty of the Bristol Courier Times. It’s all about keeping the ...
  

• Animal ball is alive and well on the courts of Rehoboth Beach

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 15
  FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED - Let’s talk youth sports and determine, “What is the actual purpose?” Is it to instill winning as the objective in any ...
  

• Judson Wall is a top-notch student/athlete at Beacon Middle

  By Dave Frederick - Jan 11
  JUDSON WALL - Judson was an Athlete of the Week in the Dec. 28 edition of the paper for his wrestling pin at 130 pounds as Beacon Middle School ...