People in Sports

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The rug you’re standing on gets yanked – do you...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Pulling the rug - Pets and throw rugs account for most unplanned orthopedic surgeries. College...

Chasing the political balls like a reluctant retriever

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Chasing the ball - Two dogs and 25 years ago on Christmas Eve, I visited Rick Townsend in Nassau to...

Reaching for the shooting stars in Seaside Delaware

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Reaching for the Stars - I have never done Formula One sportswriting and I’m fortunate that...

I’ll be back on the boards when the happy and...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Space Odyssey - In 2017, 9-year-old Bennett Brumbley made the decision to go back out on the race...

Ashby and Coverdale exude academic and athletic...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Airborne Ashby - Jack was a soccer guy at Cape, a dirty-work midfielder with relentless on-ball...

Puppies and pancakes of the pandemic

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Pancakes of the pandemic - I don’t need some perfect person hawking a self-evident diet book on the...

Growing older and getting slower in lower Delaware

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Slow down - Tim Bamforth sent me 5K results from just a few years after Don McLean “drove his Chevy...

Staying alive through the Cape Gazette archives

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Photos pop - Sometimes photos pop on Fredpop’s desktop. And that sends me back down the road of...

Five Guys Linemen for Life, all of stellar character

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Linemen for Life - A Five Guys file popped onto my Facebook timeline last week and I first...

Tina Turner Trophy: Simply the Best

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Simply the Best - A sportswriter from Philly living in Sussex County since the summer of 1975 would...

I believe in yesterday, but yesterday’s gone

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Seems like yesterday - But yesterday’s gone! I was cruising down Stockley Street passing Schoolvue...

Remembering coach Lou Nicoletti

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Happy birthday to Lou - (written Sept. 30, 2017) - There were no balloons and thankfully no singing...

The moon is down all over the town of Dewey Beach

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
The Moon is Down - Skyjack drone photos by TJ Redefer often show the sun coming up over Dewey Beach...

Masking and unmasking: depends on who is asking

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Halloween hockey - I was searching a database of eight “troglobytes” of digitized photos and up...

Bet your bottom dollar – the sun will come out...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Here Comes the Sun - I was too big in a seat too small in the Rehoboth Elementary School...

Pretty darn close to being interesting

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Social media distancing - Speaking of sports not being played, many of us have social media...

Out-of-school suspension but hope on the horizon

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Out-of-school suspension - DIAA announced that the spring sports season is suspended though May 15...

Coach Jim Alderman hangs tough as a cruiserweight...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Jimbo checks in - Got a call from former Cape football coach Jim Alderman March 22 to report he is...

Remembering people at their best reflects the best...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Crying on my keyboard - Burli Hopkins, 41, succumbed to addiction early morning March 18 at his...

I believe that we will win. Just let us play

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
“I believe that we will win.” The chant is a call-and- response interaction between two parties. It...

Beautiful world with beautiful people on Sesame...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Join the resistance - Senior Kevin Williams is driving hard, like a sprinter at the...

Hearn Heads popping up and facial recognition in...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Something happening here - And what it is ain’t exactly clear. Before the Cape versus Charter...

Running sports have the most state titles at Cape...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Spring track - Matt Lindell enters his 20th year coaching at some level of spring...

State tournament wrestling a wild world of emotional...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
A moving ceremony - As the national anthem began and the wrestling crowd rose to their...

Athletes read on the run and calculate without...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Overhead games - Pole vaulters are profoundly whack and unusually smart, often making calculated...

The space in between game days is where champions...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Long shot delivers - Woodbridge 195-pound wrestler Taeshaun Ford-Jackson was somewhere between a...

If you quit a team, the fans will forget you before...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Fair game - “But mom, it’s not fair.” “Life’s not fair, kid, get used to it.” Sports are often...

Senior Nights eventually evolve into Senior Citizen...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
One last Senior Night - Athletes get one Senior Night for each sport played, but coaches and...

Milford Central Academy is the heart of a connected...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Uncle Fredman - A Tuesday night boys’ basketball game between Cape and Milford at Milford Central...

Eagle Scout shines on the indoor track

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Fly Like an Eagle - Jake Mundok is an Eagle Scout, surfer and distance runner from Sussex Academy...

Young Tony Hazzard achieving and bringing others...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
TT and Tony - Perhaps it was 2010, a Cape JV football game, the waning minutes, Cape up by 30...

Cape community buzzing about girls’ basketball

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Slammed - I stopped by Villa Sorrento Feb. 1 after the last of three sporting events to pick up a...

The Drummonds: Milford’s father-and-son state champions

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
State champs - A hall of fame moment in the Milford gym ... I discovered what I did not know and...

Tough and tumbling Cape cheerleaders in the Big House

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Tumbling runs - Lost in the Thursday night Big House dysfunction junction dissonance was Cape’s...

Wrestlers have to learn and earn their way to...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Learn it and earn it - Most athletes who wrestle are not four-time state champions. In fact...

‘Mattioni’s Men’ place second at Grapple at the Brook

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Grapple A-Go-Go - The Cape wrestling team had a good two-day tournament this past weekend that...

Men in black and giving back

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Men in Black - The undefeated Milford Academy Middle School boys’ basketball team hit the Central...

Fleeing the mat to avoid takedown is a judgment call

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Fleeing the mat - Carson Kammerer lost a 9-7 decision to Ryan McKelvey of Delaware Military Academy...

He’s got the whole world in his hands

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Eye of an artist - I don’t photograph sunsets, streetscapes, moonrises, wildlife, weddings...

Vikings right tackle Brian O’Neill is a Sallies guy

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Storylines in the water - You’re out fishing with the fleet when the trout are running. You have...

Rehoboth and Bethany Boardwalks have gone to the dogs

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Go Pro Yo - I am a human Go Pro on the sports beat. I can spot the athletes who are players before...

Coach Jim Alderman staring down serious surgery

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Coach Jim Alderman - An alpha dog running up a great dune. That big ol’ boy, a Lineman for Life, is...

Family Friday night at Cape’s Big House

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
High flyers - Cape alumni Randy Rickards, Jon Warren and Jordan Howell were at the Cape Big House...

Cape connections across the generations at The Big...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Mackenzie Irelan - A Cape senior wrestling manager and all-around stellar student, a bonnie lass...

Good coaching is worth its weight in gold at any level

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Coach connections - I snuck this snap of Seashore Striders coach Tim Bamforth with talented runner...

Rudeness is a self-reflection, revealing lameness of...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Punks and perspective - Davey Fred, the Inclusion Kid, is a bona fide player on the high school...

Field of 2,600 marathon runners springs from a sea...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Weirdly unexplainable - Some 2,600 brightly colored runners sprang from the sea at sunrise Saturday...

Cuba hat opens up conversations I never see coming

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Cuba hat - I was at Meineke Monday afternoon getting my tire pressure checked and equalized in all...

Take me down: Chris Mattioni begins 25th season in...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Lift off to take down - Chris Mattioni, the dean of Cape coaches, begins his 25th year as head...

The first Noelle and second Noelle are both winners

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Dos Noelles - The first Noelle pictured this holiday season is Noelle Sabbagh, just off field...

Sydney Ostroski: A forever champion before a...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Sydney Ostroski - Sydney Ostroski was on four state championship field hockey teams at Cape (2012-...

Every picture tells a story in every race that’s run

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Reason to believe - I capture some great photos of real people. I don’t even know I have the image...

Cape field hockey is my comfort zone, like an old...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Tapestry - I consider myself a dream weaver, part of the fabric of the Cape field hockey team. I’ve...

I am a Yahoo virtual human search engine

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Making the rounds - In the first three days of winter sports practices, I captured photos of...

It’s a school record until others disprove it

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
You disprove it - I sometimes proclaim “Cape school record” and wait for someone else to disprove...

Big hurts and redshirts stepping up and stepping out

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Big hurts and redshirts - Brent Reed (Cape), a 6-foot-6, 252-pound tight end at the University of...

Runner goes down as trainers race to the rescue

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
She wobbled, I waited - No human being on the planet has watched more runners finish races in the...

Go out hard while you still ain’t got no sense

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Scary sight - Imagine 300 middle school boys running fast across a field, all funneling down to a...

Living and running down a dream

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Running down a dream - I lugged my big camera rig to DE Turf Saturday morning to watch a girls’...

Cape cross country teams finish dual-meet season 10-1

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Ten-win seasons - Cape’s cross country teams, boys and girls, closed out their dual-meet seasons...