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Jaden Messick enjoys birthday 16 running the track...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Ain’t that tough enough? Jaden Messick, a sophomore, wore No. 1 in football as a 160-pound...
Two-day wrestling tournaments draw blood, scatter...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Indoor cat - I spent two days inside the Milford Central Academy gym covering the Henlopen...
Sponge blob scribe where the rubber meets the blubber
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Smelling the sweat - The Henlopen Conference wrestling championships are Friday and Saturday, Feb...
Local lacrosse players lighting up the college...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Take me to your feeder - Atlantic Lacrosse and later the Eastern Shore Lacrosse Club harnessed...
Fredgirl met hall of famers and didn’t know it
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Fredgirl story - A decade ago (could have been longer), I was sitting in the press box overlooking...
Vikings videographers Maddie and Jocelyn capture...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Vikings videographers - I obstructed the sightline of Cape sophomores Maddie Elphick and Jocelyn...
Track and field attracts an array of personality types
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Squirrels gonna be squirrely - I had to go into Cape High to get a photo of three pole vaulters –...
Iceberg lettuce heads are the poltergeists of...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Layered player - I was five sheets to the cold wind Saturday morning, layered up and parked nose-in...
Golden anniversary of Cape’s girls’ basketball state...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Golden Anniversary - Cape Henlopen won the first Delaware state championship contested for girls 33...
Andy Reid will stare into a sideline that didn’t...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Yo Chiefs! Andy Reid showed up for sportswriter Larry O’Rourke’s ALS fundraiser at Chickie &...
Hand jive and hambone are flip sides of creative...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Crazy Hand Jive - I know a cat named “Way Out Willie” who did the crazy hand jive. The hand jive is...
Cape wrestles Central at the Castle on Wednesday night
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Focus groups - Cape will wrestle at unbeaten Sussex Central Wednesday, Jan. 25, with JV bouts...
Soccer coach Gary Montalto receives national award,...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Soccer professor - Gary Montalto is on the spectrum of soccer coaches; he sees things before they...
Sonic trash trucks rolling the roads of Sussex County
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Sonic trash truck - I was meeting with my nephew Mike last Friday and we were discussing the...
Lanelle Hearn leaves legacy of the stained-glass cross
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Stained-glass cross - Lanelle Hearn was a Bethel Methodist preschool stained-glass soul searcher...
Cape winter track at ease like an Ocean Breeze
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Cranapple Games - Cape winter/indoor track has always chased the competition going back 50 years...
Pleasant weather means all athletes are in season
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Pleasant like a pheasant - I trucked around the Cape campus Tuesday afternoon like a fair-weather...
Action News means get off the couch and out of the...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Action News - The big story on Action News is not the retirement of broadcaster Jim Gardner, Trump’...
Snoop: Shizzle my nizzle! Drop it like it’s hot!
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Reflexology - Fred family members roared through the kitchen door on Christmas morning led by Davey...
Nobody taught me the Electric Slide ... where was I?
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Electric Slide Syndrome - I first noticed it back in the late 1980s while sitting at a round table...
Sharing stories in coastal Sussex is a cultural pastime
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
One-on-one - The song by Daryl Hall and John Oates, a couple of Temple guys, contains lots of...
Xfinity to infinity thinking about eternity
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Unsung, not unappreciated - Solid sports programs have a depth of athletes usually divided into two...
Big House rocks from the jump all night long
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Yo, Adria - Judging by both sides of the bleachers being pulled all the way out, a major match was...
Run with a Santa state of mind
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Run with Santa - Skinny Santas run 5K races; fat Santas deadlift crates of Chistmas oranges looking...
Clearing out the clutter of too much sports data
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Temptations -
“Keep on walking and don’t look back.” Sports, over a bevy of years,...
History in the midst of hallways and trailways
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Hall pass - I’m sitting on a barstool in a drizzle along Flag Alley taking photos of thousands of...
3,000 runners will share the trails on marathon...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Lewes to Rehoboth - I am credited with being a co-founder of the Lewes Marathon along with John...
We are the champions and friends
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Three equals six - I saw three state championship guys talking among themselves Saturday at the...
Delmar Wildcats hockey a buzzsaw with claws
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Ran into a buzzsaw - That sports term (not shop class) is used mostly in tournament wrestling when...
The fantasy league inside your own head
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
My Pillow -
The graying heads of athletes and coaches hit their pillows at night where...
Just another plaque on the wall
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
The Room - All in all, it's just another plaque on the wall. Last season, I wanted it for Mikey,...
Danny Mitchell leaves behind a legacy of funny stories
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Speakers of the House - I took a photo of Danny Mitchell and Pete Schwartzkopf at the Rehoboth Fire...
Lost my shoes but found memories in a cardboard box
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Strangeness of life - I lost a pair of New Balance size 13 Quad E sneakers somewhere in my house. I...
Brenn Scott a two-step athlete, a football and...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
One step, two step - Brenn Scott was a sophomore catcher on Cape’s 2022 state championship baseball...
Bus driver Fred Harvey enjoys private lacrosse ring...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Ring ceremony - After the Senior Night field hockey game versus Caesar Rodney Oct. 25, the Cape...
Make sports history sharable, get your own column
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Crooked numbers - Life moves on, we put up numbers, they track us like mission control. When you...
Legends Stadium inductions set for Friday night
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Dropping the F words - Fall foliage, the flora and fauna colorized, young thinclads running down a...
Cape’s greatest running back in the Homecoming house
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
The Pennant - Yo, Skippy! Get up on outta there! Bryce Harper was in the zone, fouling off pitches...
Lonnie Maull: a student and a sprinter who is gone...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Lonnie Maull - Sometimes nicknamed “Train,” Lonnie left this earth for the greater universe Oct. 11...
Ready to fade into my own parade
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Battle of Route 9 - Sussex Central football plays at Cape Henlopen Friday night and it’s Homecoming...
Great kids just enhance everyone’s game
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Great kid - The best ringing endorsement of a school-aged athlete is when coaches and teachers say...
Styles and Silver Fox Fields has nice alliteration
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Styles and Silver Fox Fields - The Cape Henlopen campus now has two ball fields named after local...
Philly now giddy city, but soft pretzels quickly go...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Giddy City - Philly doesn’t wear success all that well, because sports fans talk too much too soon...
A head coach should be gracious, not dismissive of...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Thanks, Coach! I’m not a fan of network sideline interviews with the coach on their way into the...
Middle school sports a venue to perfect stop-and...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Hockey dads - I took a sports holiday Wednesday, so I decided to check out the Sussex Academy at...
Looking down on 1,000 Dogfish dashers and prancers
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Painter’s ladder - I stood on the top step (or step two) of what some call a stepstool but I call a...
Athlete verbal commitments are contractually non...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Magic Mikey - I posted a photo of Mikey in a Michigan shirt holding a lacrosse stick 10 years ago...
Tunnel to Towers is a time to look, listen and learn
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
General assessment - The Tunnel to Towers 3.43-mile run at Fort Miles inside Cape Henlopen State...
Pentagonal cross country meet at Sandhill Fields
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Euclidean geometry - Ptolemy and gone tomorrow. Teach for transfer, don’t bother reluctant learners...
Ian Fleming runs Bottle & Cork 10-Miler inspired by...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Take it to the bridge - Silver Lake Bridge leading into Rehoboth in the early morning is a...
Big guys driven by faith who can hit
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Zippity dippity - The Dips of Franklin & Marshall College defeated the visiting Captains of...
Upside and downside of sports an emotion ride...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Ella Shockley - A freshman for West Chester University field hockey, straight out of Delmar and...
Playing time and parents – just don’t step over the...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Stepping over the line - Players on teams don’t want to watch the game from the sidelines. Stepping...
Synthetic turf temperatures get stupid hot on August...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Billy Goat Gruff - I am not trolling the operators of the trash-sucking Billy Goat machines in...
Take it to the bounce house of bonding
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Team bonding - Champions Stadium rocks 25 state championship signs – 13 in lacrosse and 12 in field...
Fluffy the wrestler blazes his first 5K in 28 minutes
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Fluffy Flores - A wise word of advice when addressing a 6-foot-6, 270-pound former heavyweight...
Training wheels and sports traditions across the...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Training wheels - Two trainers in a green gator go rolling around Cape’s campus on an early August...
Strong friends stay tethered together for a lifetime
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Silver Anniversary Run for JJ 5K - Girlfriends since forever, having grown up in Rehoboth describes...
Wrestling ring ceremony at Fish On! – I was the...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Ring ceremony - The Cape wrestling team held its ring ceremony at Fish On! at Five Points Aug. 8,...
Runner’s forward lean is a warning sign ... ‘going...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Forward lean - No one has seen more forward leans of struggling runners shuffling toward the finish...
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