People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

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Kids are cool, so step back with your big helium...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Who am I, Art Linkletter? - Art wrote a series of books, “Kids Say the Darndest Things,” based on...

Pancake blocks and driving defenders like a rented...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Assessing, not guessing - Cape head football coach J.D. Maull can talk all day about the five...

Athletes often Rise to meet the moment without...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Rise to the occasion - Ryan Peters, in 90 pounds of jump gear, was escorted by his wife Amanda...

Dave Truitt of Lewes honored with his own Blue Rocks...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Quiet and classy - A round corner table at the Rehoboth Beach Country Club, the Rehoboth Bay as a...

Best Buddies 5K puts the perspective on friendship

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Best Buddies - Making new buddies at the Best Buddies 5K held Aug. 12 at Dewey Beach Lions Club...

The bond is unbroken between coaches Maull and Glenn

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Relentlessness - Cape football coach JD Maull spent the week at Coastal Carolina with his Cape...

Harry K Foundation feeds hungry kids of Delaware

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Harry K Foundation and hungry kids - I’ve seen high school kids miss lunch due to an emergency...

Young athletes at old school keep community connected

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Young guy and old school - My old high school, Bishop Egan, and Cape, where I taught for 29 years,...

Robin Adair steps off as Tower Hill’s head coach of...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Robin retires - Coach Robin Adair has retired as head coach of field hockey at Tower Hill School...

Legendary Lefties a local sports legacy

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Leftys - This priceless photo shows Johnny Morris and Chris Short (Lewes High left-handed hurlers)...

Dolphins and Democrats: Sometimes a shirt is just a...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Dolphins and Democrats - I attended my first indoor barbecue July 21 to celebrate Bill Collick’s...

Fall sports practices begin Aug. 15; it’s time to...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Fall sports - The first practice for high school fall sports is Wednesday, Aug. 15. Middle school...

Mind over matter in sports: If you don’t mind, it...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Mind over matter - Trained and conditioned athletes who practice outside can compete in all kinds...

Walking the fast track to low impact is not so easy

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Walk like a conniption - Not too many years ago, I walked 100 miles per month for five straight...

Baron Vincent, Cape heavyweight wrestler, remembered...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
The Closer - Baron Vincent was a Cape heavyweight wrestler who started all four years of high...

Patriotism displayed by flags and colors but not...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Thin Blue Line - Melissa Clemons ran the July 4 Red, White & Blue 5K at Rehoboth Beach Country...

Every runner has a goal to meet and a story to tell

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Small-town romance - Eric , 23, and Lauren Westog, 22, are from the same town, Dacula, Ga., and...

Pretty is easy, but a beautiful soul is precious

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Beautiful girls, beautiful people - There were no male runners among the field of 200 at the...

Sports management requires organization, flexibility...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Sports management - Oscar Madison was the messy and disorganized sportswriter in the play “The Odd...

Two lunch ladies named Bill at Father’s Day 5K

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Lunch Lady Land - Young punk comedian Adam Sandle r released his song “Lunch Lady Land” back in...

The Tooth Fairy’s rate of exchange has gone up over...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Jackson Yngve - Just 6 years old, Jackson ran a 5K on Father’s Day with his dad Kurt . Jackson...

The Zen Master inducted into Del. Lacrosse...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
A moment of Zen - The Zen Master of Cape girls’ lacrosse, the creator of concentric circles of...

Some have jerseys to wear at Blue-Gold 5K, others do...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
New jersey or no jersey - My son Jack was a first-team All-Henlopen Conference end on both sides of...

I’m the guy who knows the most people who don’t know...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Coming of age - My mantra out in the wilds of the Delaware sports landscape is “I’m the guy who...

Umpire Tom Disharoon is ripped and fit with a tight...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Umpire Tom Disharoon is a ripped, fit, in-charge umpire, and he don't play. He was all over the 10-...

I knew an ump and his name was Blue, and he’s a good...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Home plate ump - “I knew an old ump and his name was Blue, bet ya five dollars he’s a good ump too...

Lee Masser runs his own race at his own pace

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Masser montage - The 25th annual Dr. Lee Masser 5-miler at Cape May 27 saw a welcoming party of...

Laxer Sadie Kauffman scores goals while looking for...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Partisan parents - Chairs rimmed the pitch at Hudson Fields May 22 for the U13 and U15 championship...

Good goalies all over local girls’ lacrosse fields

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Goalie girls - Cape freshman lacrosse goalie Vivian Lynn got into the varsity lacrosse game late...

Loads of talent on display during middle school...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Take me to your feeder - A large, enthusiastic Cape crowd showed up to Legends Stadium under the...

‘Come get these memories’ is the theme of summer...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Coach Fitzgerald - The T-shirts were everywhere: “In Memory of Huriah Thomas Fitzgerald III. 1946-...

Griffin Kammerer awarded prestigious Fulbright...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Fulbright to new heights - Griffin Kammerer, a soccer goalie and baseball pitcher at Cape who then...

Local sports scene like a giant jellyfish propelled...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Odd as a cod - A Run for Recovery 5K on Saturday followed by a Revelation Beer on the Run 4-miler...

Snapchat – take a photo, then talk about it

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Might as Well Jump - I know the Van Halen song, but I don’t know why. I do know that I process a...

Tall versus Short Lacrosse and micro wrestling at...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Ten Year Tradition - The Zen Master P.J. Kesmodel started the Cape girls’ lacrosse...

Here I am stuck in the middle after peaking in...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Coach Kenny - I have been a mentor and friend to Kenny Riedel since he first got lost in the...

Barrett and Coveleski inducted into Delaware Afro...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Memory bank - I don’t know exactly what “Modern Maturity Center” means, but anytime I’ve been there...

Athletes and artists and nice stories from out of...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Athlete and artist - “She’s got everything she needs. She’s an artist. She don’t look back. She can...

14 million people run at least one race a year

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Big time little races - The Tommy 10K and Daffodil Dash 5K attracted 53 runners for the 5K and...

Friends along the fence are quick to smile just for...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Family on the fence - “I can tell it, but I can’t sell it,” is my silent message to myself for...

Masters coverage never mentions money or memberships

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Antiques Roadshow - You may clean your grandfather's cuckoo clock, take it to an appraiser, then...

Best and Burton flash highlights on a bitterly...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
What UPS man - Freshman Gabe Best has been hearing his own drummer since arriving at Cape from...

Wahoowa – Young and Rambo are excelling at Virginia

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Young and relentless - “Dateline Richmond, Va. The No. 20 Virginia men’s track and field team...

Golden Knights light up track on a gray day along...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
A clear gray day - Tuesday afternoon, March 27, was a cold, gray day along Patriots Way in...

Tiara Duffy’s GPA is higher than her BA, but she’s...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Sweet Tea - Tiara Duffy wanted to go play softball at the University of Tennessee coming out of...

Cats Unlimited was satire until someone took it...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Cats Unlimited - A couple of decades ago, artist John Gardoski and I collaborated on a satire piece...

Beware of Bad News Bichons, Ludicrous Labs and Clamp...

6 years ago
Happy trails - Cindi Dieterle walked into the blue chair orbit after a five-mile walk on the...

Girl power unleashed: Title X needed so boys can...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Title X - Enough already, girls, you win! I go back to the days before Title IX and equalization of...

Do you feel lucky? Well, do you, Leprechaun?

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Hit the roads running - The sixth annual Lucky Leprechaun 5K blasted off at brunch time March 11 in...

‘The students’ lives are in my hands’

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Head on a swivel - I am always scouting out stories. It comes from writing a column for the last 36...

Derek delivers like Domino’s - a hall of fame...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Derek delivers like Domino’s - Derek Savage, the Doctor of Dunk when he played for Cape, will be...

Fans and Fatheads ready for state tournament...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Chasing the dream - The 2018 DIAA basketball tournaments have launched into the second round, where...

Cape community makes wrestling tournament a success

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Double Downers - My mentor in the sports media world, Dick Dougherty of the Bucks County Courier...

Queen for a Day with my new friends from Delmar

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Queen for a Day - “Testimony with immunity from prosecution” is used by Special Prosecutor Robert...

Princeton is a great school, but Philly trolleys are...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Rock ’em Sock ’em - I’ve been on the sock puppet southside of sports a few times playing on or...

Trooper Tim Wolansky totally locked in for the...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
The Great Wolansky - Master Cpl. Tim Wolansky, dressed in full state trooper uniform, was working...

Hard to track the inexact history of Cape basketball

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Hard to track the inexact - I am not a tracker of details, but I’m good at remembering sports stuff...

The Inclusion Kid Davey is just looking for a match

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
The Inclusion Kid - Grandson Davey with Down syndrome can hang all day at athletic events, and he...

Philly fan base goes full-boat crazy after Super...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Does that make me crazy - The Philly fan base went full-boat Gnarls Barkley Sunday night, taking it...

Watch the players, but remember to see the people

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Bump in the night - A grandmother's tale: “Don’t be afraid of things that go bump in the night.” I...