The University of Delaware has added golf and dropped men’s indoor track in the endless endeavor of forced equalization of men’s and women’s sports. Wrestling was trashed 10 years ago. Perhaps all 20,000 season ticket holders for football should be forced to purchase a seat license for all home field hockey games.

Delaware State gives athletic scholarships for women’s bowling and its equestrian team just signed three coveted pony riders for the 2009-10 season. Nothing like bird dogging horse shows! The Hornets next face the Auburn Tigers in Alabama Sunday, Jan. 25. I’m applying for a credential just because I want to see the home horses board a plane. Let’s get this palomino off the ground!

ANONYMOUS TIP - I get anonymous tips via snail mail all the time, mostly advising me that I shouldn’t write about anything outside of sports, play in traffic or remove bread from the toaster with a butter knife while my feet are wet.

Cape is the only high school in the history of Delaware to be investigated by the Philadelphia-based Office for Civil Rights for an alleged Title IX infraction going back to 1992. The on-site equestrian inquiry - a euphemism for horse crap - never took notice of the fact that a total of 12 African-American girls participated in sports during the school year. And that’s because the Office for Civil Rights had no interest in race, only gender.

BREVITY IS A VIRTUE - I understand the basic rules of public speaking which are never stay too long, leave them laughing or crying when you go and don’t use the word I at all because nobody cares about you.

I - broke the rule already - told the Sallies crowd at last Saturday’s Glenn party that I was happy for their fond memories of coach George Glenn, but he has belonged to us at Cape the last 15 years and has been forever changed by that experience. It would be like me going home and reclaiming my brother who has been married to his wife Nancy for the last 40 years. He is her problem now, not mine.

TOO TEMPERATE - I went to the Delmarva Christian at St. Thomas More boys basketball game last Monday night, Dec. 8. The basketball was good, the pre-game prayer was a nice touch and the post-game sportsmanship was heartfelt, but for me just too genteel and not enough frenzy. I was that way as a teacher - a class too quiet just unnerved me and left me with too much energy. An honors student - so he thought - once remarked, “Fredman, you are the worst-behaved person in the room.” To which I replied, “Someone has to carry the action.”

SNIPPETS - It is my understanding that Cape Henlopen is still owed $16,000 and change for the 2007 Bay Ball Classic basketball tournament but will not pursue that debt if the tournament goes under because the “get” of litigation would not justify the legal expense and hours worked.

The Dec. 7 Polar Bear dip became a jockey jump as Brian “Badness” Marrin went “Fruit of the Loon” joining Greg Mack, Tom Gusmer, Connie Miller and Rosanna Castillo in a spontaneous act of unplanned wackiness.

The Polar Plunge for Special Olympics is Sunday, Feb. 1.

Joe Roberts, an assistant football and baseball coach at Cape, has been named the new head baseball coach at Cape replacing Jimmy Young.

Brian “Cub” Conlon, a 6-foot-5 imposing-looking state trooper who played for Salesianum back in 1978, told a story at last Saturday night’s retirement party for coach George Glenn of pulling over the Sallies team bus as it left Lewes in 1992 after beating Cape 21-0. “Coach Glenn was upset and said, ‘We’re the Salesianum football team. Why did you pull us over?” Conlon recalled. “I was dressed in full uniform and told him I didn’t care who they were and then I said, ‘Coach, it’s Cub. I just wanted to wish you luck the rest of the season.’”

The posted position of head football coach at Cape closes at the end of the day Friday, Dec. 12. Back in the day 50 applicants would throw their names into the hat but not now because the demands and expectations are too high and schools, because of teacher contracts, can’t negotiate a softer teaching load. Who can teach six classes and coach a football team at the same time?

Dallas over the Giants; Steelers beat the Ravens; the Eagles better beat the Browns.