People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

Email Fredman at fredman@capegazette.com

Reflections on Rainbow Demolition, sports and politics

Dave Frederick
7 months ago
Connections: politics and sports - Susan and I were in the stands about 1992 at Maryland as the...

False start for kids’ race is funny if you’re a 50...

Dave Frederick
7 months ago
No-class clown - A bunch of youngsters lined up on Rehoboth Avenue at 7:50 a.m. Aug. 18 for the two...

Taylor the composite Cape kid leaves the pitch too...

Dave Frederick
7 months ago
Sad Songs - “If you don’t know me by now you will never never know me.” – Harold Melvin and the...

Odie Davis, 62, is coaching girls’ basketball in...

Dave Frederick
7 months ago
Flash forward - Coach George Pepper and I ran a resource room together back in 1980 under the...

There are no birthday breaks or cupcakes at Cape...

Dave Frederick
7 months ago
Birthday 52 - Tuesday was the B-52 birthday celebration of Cape coach Mike Frederick, but out at...

Bulldogs Junior and Chunk roll past Dewey Beach...

Dave Frederick
7 months ago
Schmidt’s Malt Liquor bulldogs - Rescues Junior and Chunk are on the wagon rolling past Dewey Beach...

Perks Pacers inspire runners at Penn State College...

Dave Frederick
8 months ago
Perks Pacers - Perks Pacers is a group that runs as a team at the Penn State College Day 5K in...

Runners are friendly and gracious, but racing is...

Dave Frederick
8 months ago
Me too, me first - I was taking photos at the finish line at the Dam Mill 5K in Millsboro July 28...

Alia and Evan are a couple of kids connecting at...

Dave Frederick
8 months ago
Friends Central - Evan Chubb is a rising third-grader, the third of four children of Katie and Josh...

Mr. Field Hockey is an inside joke working outside...

Dave Frederick
8 months ago
Inside joke - “They call me Mr. Field Hockey.” That was started by the zen master of Cape girls’...

Earth stands still on Cape campus with news of...

Dave Frederick
8 months ago
Full stop! - The earth spins at 1,000 miles per hour, yet there is no sense of speed. On Tuesday...

Billbow Dunning a rock-hard, humble hero, an athlete...

Dave Frederick
8 months ago
Fast and rock-hard humble - William Billbow Dunning died July 13, felled by a heart attack or...

Runner’s high is crystal-clear sobriety for early...

Dave Frederick
8 months ago
Dewey never sleeps - Dewey isn’t the town that never sleeps, but the town that sleeps in shifts. At...

Summer open fields and gyms are optional, but best...

Dave Frederick
8 months ago
Home opener - There is a closing-time joke, “You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.”...

A string of four-letter words tying together stories...

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Four-letter words - The words are Cape, Emma, Anna and Maci. Three young athletes, all of whom...

Legendary field hockey coach Carolyn Ivins turns 85,...

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Get off my lawn - Cape field hockey coach Carolyn Ivins (1969-79) won the school's first state...

Sun’s out! Guns out! Jeff Jablon dazzles friends...

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Choo Choo Jablon - Jeff Jablon, 48, is the quintessential player to be named later. He is the guy...

Strokin’ aint no jokin’ – stop and drop if it gets...

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Lean on me - Good hydrations bop bop. It’s no secret I have seen more runners finish races than...

Sinking storylines like outriggers in a marlin...

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Goody two-shoemakers - Two women looked the part standing at the starting line of the SoDel Cares...

Relaxed laxer now a rising eighth-grader and a player

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Relaxed laxer - Summer sports camps proliferate here at Sesame Street by the Sea, and quite frankly...

Chicken Chase 5K reveals a free-ranging chicken who...

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Algebraic equation - I covered the University of Delaware Chicken Chase 5K Saturday morning. It...

Beefalo Brigade and biodegradable biographies

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Beefalo Brigade - The King Cole Ranch had hybrid livestock. Back in the day, they were called...

Sharing struggles and successes is a Sunday...

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Cabbage Patch Katie - I called her Cabbage Patch Katie when I had her in my Problems of Democracy...

Oversharing replaces active listening, best to tamp...

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Oversharing - I recently jumped a paywall and read that today’s high school graduates are the first...

Sports are driven by instantaneous results, unlike...

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Results driven - The medical system is overburdened; that’s why annoying active advocacy is the...

Officials are atop the totem of controlling sports...

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Get off my lawn - Milford graciously agreed to host the semifinal girls’ lacrosse game between Cape...

Make my day today, same as yours

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
The eternal present - Three hundred runners, mostly young guns from the Let Me Run clubs of Sussex...

Titles and awards can easily get lost in the...

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Wrestlers and runners - The sports of wrestling, cross country and spring track have similar...

Future stars captured as faces along the fence

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Faces along the fence - I saw a face along the fence during the first half of the May 9 girls’...

A goalie personality is no flinch, no fear, just...

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Goalie guitar - Mariner sixth-grade goalie Penelope Bohl goes through her pre-game routine getting...

Blue-collar guys run races while lacrosse teams run...

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Outside scoop, inside corner - Joseph Goulet, 37, won the Seashore Classic Half Marathon May 4 in 1...

Coaches doing great things across the landscape of...

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
The Candy Man can - Dan Candeloro is the head coach of girls’ tennis for the Caesar Rodney Riders...

Unsaturated races leave more room to put your foot...

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Polyunsaturated - No human journalist type has covered, photographed and written about more road...

Sports landscape will change with a third middle...

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Flux capacitor - Let’s go back to the future. The Frederick Thomas Middle School in Lewes will open...

Cape spring athletes and ambassadors hear Sean Locke...

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Morgan’s Message - We sports muppets from Sesame Street by the Sea share the joy of comradeship and...

Cape muppets sing Al Green’s ‘Let’s Stay Together’

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Not a fan - I am the guy who has never left high school sports since I walked into freshman...

Smiley and the Smiler win CoDel marathon titles

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
The irony and the agony - On Sunday morning, I worked the happy trails of the Coastal Delaware...

One-trick Poppy: Falling back to one game a day

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
One-trick Poppy - There are more streamers than the Philly New Year's Day Mummers Parade at most...

Soap opera sports just a proliferation of pundits

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Cognition crazies - Perhaps women's college basketball was better off before the crazies without...

Genetic predisposition for excellence in sports? -...

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Logomotion three-balls - Change the haircut, put on multiple pairs of floppy socks, change the TV...

Community impact players Ayers and Lofland leave...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Garland Ayers - Garland died last week, and we are selfishly sad because someone who openly loved...

Preacher man Paulen wins four golds at national...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Bob Paulen - A great guy, athlete, and 86-year-old Yale Doctor of Divinity, Bob lives in downtown...

Bracket-head Fred hits billows of pillows recalling...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Bracket-head Fred - I watched Creighton beat Oregon in double overtime Saturday past midnight, then...

Sports stories fun to tell but harder to write and...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Telling stories - A lyric from the Tracy Chapman song, “Telling Stories,” released in 2000: “There...

Italian guys win Shamrock Shuffle races

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Italian stallions - The Shamrock Shuffle 5K and 10-Miler races on St. Patrick’s Day inside Cape...

Smile and seize an exquisite spring day; later you...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Smiling faces - I strafed spring practices at Cape March 13, with 4 p.m. temperatures...

Lucky Leprechaun 5K a majestic small-town showcase

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Squall and squawk - A total of 500 runners endured a 20-minute dark cloud, but there was no whining...

Vision Quest: seeing and assessing the sports world...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Vision Quest - Cape wrestling grappled at Sussex Tech Feb. 7, when the Ravens put a scare into the...

Blanket coverage of championship wrestling from the...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Blanket coverage - I was Pop Pop in the paddock last weekend, contagiously sick sitting under a...

Hundreds of athletes show up for first week of...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
We talkin’ practice - More than 100 boys and girls showed up on the first day of spring track...

Wrestling fans cheer for underdogs and upsets

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Upset specials - The Henlopen Conference wrestling finals Feb. 24 at Sussex Central’s...

Unsung is not unappreciated

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Noah Diamond - “Sweet Caroline” is a song by Neil Diamond that inspired a new generation of fans...

Seasoned sports fans can hang tough all day long

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Hang tough - Parents, players, sportswriters and all connected cousins, uncles and aunts...

Gaining wisdom while losing perspective seems like a...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Gaining wisdom, losing perspective - I have always been wise beyond my years, but I’ve...

Super Bowl Sunday is a placation vacation and power...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Boomer or bigot - I avoided all pregame run-ups to the Super Bowl then watched the longest game...

Wrestling culture remains strong in downstate Delaware

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Hate the bite - “Don’t hate the black. Don’t hate the white. If you get bit, just hate the bite...

Dogs on the run are fun until you trip over one

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Bully for you - My exact same age running friend Leo Hannigan, 77, was finishing the Run to the...

Matside Muppets bring a softer side to sometimes...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Matside Muppets - Cape wrestling’s 38-25 win over Caesar Rodney Jan. 31 followed 20 middle school...

Sports are jargonistic language takes on different...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Hard charging - It just made me laugh because the phrase "bull in a china shop" aptly describes the...

NFL Championship Weekend best watched on mute

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Insulting intelligences - Speaking of sports, how many hours of programming do we need as a runup...