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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...
Bill Cordrey honored: I will call it Silver Fox Field
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Silver Fox Field - The softball field at Cape is now named Bill Cordrey Field. The request was made...
Men in tights must wear shorts sailing over the high...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Bob Neylan - Henlopen Conference track coaches from my era of the mid-‘70s to mid-‘80s included Jim...
Tooth Fairy is a champion of children’s choppers
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Tooth Fairy - Ainsley Schneider came over to the table under the canopy at Champions Field Hockey...
Relative of the Week: Ergas Leps, Canadian Olympian...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Relative of the Week - Back in the days of the Wednesday Whale newspaper, I ran a weekly feature in...
Relentless racers push the envelope at Tuesday night...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Nobody gets a trophy - Tuesday night’s open track meet at Cape “looked like fun,” said the man in...
Memories flood Bill Degnan 5K’s silver anniversary
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Silver back - “New friends are silver and old friends are gold.” Sunday was the 25th running of the...
Cactus to practice, Freds jet back from desert to...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Cactus to practice - Cape Henlopen head football coach Mike Frederick and Cape Gazette Emeritus Man...
Next year is now for scholastic sports 2022-23
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Cool runnings - Ricky Brokaw, 24, a Cape kid, won his age group and finished eighth overall at the...
Stanford and Xander in the sands of Rehoboth
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Hello Stanford in the sand - I caught Aya Daisey's photo as she ran across the sand at Sunday’s...
Sports booster moms run banquets, capture the memories
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Booster Moms of the Western World - Sports banquets with programs, scrapbooks, trophies and gifts...
From the archives: Fredman bruised and battered,...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
I survived a rollover accident July 5, 1999. A day later, I wrote the following column with purple...
Play like it matters, but if you’re 12, it doesn’t
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Wells quells yells - The Sunday morning club-a-dub-dub, steamy showdown between 2027 lacrosse girls...
‘Life is too short not to be an Italian’
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Goose is gone - A man in the stands at a Ravens game 25 years ago wore a T-shirt that read: “Life...
Football all-star games are struggling for players...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Father’s Day 5K - The 32nd annual Father’s Day 5K was run in Rehoboth Sunday morning with 252...
Highway One 5K to the stranger zone
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Stride on by - On Memorial Day weekend, 5K runners ran past my camera during the 20th Highway One...
Community policing at Sesame Street by the Sea
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Community policing - The Silver Lake bridge was Tranquility Base. I was kicking it off the bumper...
The sad eyes of injured athletes reveal the hurt...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Sad eyes - Injured athletes have sad eyes like a locked-down lab on a rainy day. The jointed and...
Rewards, awards and time to get along, little doggies
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Cross-street cousins - Ella Rishko and Mikey Frederick are first cousins and senior classmates who...
Lacrosse umpire Jill Fitzcharles retires after 35...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Umpire retires - Jill Fitzcharles, who has been a referee for women's lacrosse for 35 years,...
Deals with a deity for sports outcomes are just...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Deal with the deity - Here’s my deal, Lord – if you can deliver a win in this championship game, I...
Mikey Frederick hits double 100 milestone
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Magic Mikey - Mik ey Frederick scored his 100th career lacrosse goal May 19 at Legends Stadium...
I know more than most, but miss more than ever
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Cleaning house - Sussex Academy’s Sadie Tunnell was Henlopen Conference champion in the 400-meter...
DIAA girls’ lacrosse semis to be played at Delaware...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Delaware State lacrosse - Jeff Savage, a former athletic director and softball coach at Delaware...
That’s good enough, because nothing compares to you
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Habitrails to you - I call it running the hamster wheel to nowhere, the quest to be the best, but...
Kelly and Davey are inclusive friends who know what...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
A magic moment - Senior Night for girls’ lacrosse was held at Champions Stadium May 6. It was the...
Cape lacrosse alumni gather for moments of reflection
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Alumni game - Coach Lou Norbeck, a former Cape football and lacrosse coach, and history teacher...
Seining the river of sports looking for good stuff...
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Starbursting - This is a catchall column with just too many things coming at me too fast, not the...
Joy to the World rocks Cape Unified track team
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Showboat - Davey Frederick runs the 100 meters for Cape’s Unified team. He grew up around sports,...
Dave Robinson passes away but forever friends always...
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Friends are forever - A close friend, Dr. Dave Robinson, who moved inside the concentric circles of...
Sports on the beach are postcard perfect
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Postcard perfect -
Cape’s lacrosse girls hosted a Holy Thursday Easter Egg Hunt and skills...
Runners rumble, rock the boards at Bunny Palooza
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Thunder Road - No one has sat in a blue chair and watched more oncoming race traffic through a...
Cape volleyball is a solidly good team, and fans...
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Gramps Interruptus - My talent is that no matter what or how much I’m doing, I always look like I’m...
Bobblehead giveaway days better than fat heads in...
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Bobblehead giveaway - Checking the Phillies’ upcoming schedule, I see the team plays at the Dodgers...
Sussex nicknames require explanation of the derivation
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Bullet Train - Keishawn Mansfield brought home the bacon Tuesday on the Legends Stadium track,...
Pop pop and the four-way stop; blinking red confuses...
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Knocking about - There is a band from Madison, Wis., called the Red Hot Horn Dogs. I was thinking...
Articulation of academics and athletics is tricky...
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Grandma’s house - “I stay with my Grandma.” Looking back at a history of forfeited high school...
200 young kids cuckoo for clinics on Sunday morning
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Runners and gunners - Cold winds were blowing over Champions and Legends Stadiums at Cape Sunday...
Pop Pop knocks uncle out of the ring everyday
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
The Leaf - Sportswriter Dick Dougherty called Our Lady of Grace grammar school basketball player...
Ironies and agonies sprinkled with hilarities
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Kool and the Gang - A state championship celebration brunch was held at the Baywood Greens banquet...
People you don’t know are never surprised to see you
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Hover like a mother -
Susan and I rolled north through Hockessin to West Grove, Pa.,...
Lucky Leprechaun 5K has more locals than a little bit
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Three-hundred pounders - Some 300 athletes pounded the pavement in Milton Sunday morning for the...
Cape girls’ basketball is 56-10 over last three seasons
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Fifty years - It will be 50 years next girls’ basketball season since Cape won a state championship...
Plaques in places no one ever sees unless invited or...
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Housekeeping - The wrestling season ended Feb. 26. The gym is broken down. Mats are rolled up, with...
Uncanny Maney leads off spring after closing out...
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Lead-off girl - I popped onto the Cape track Tuesday for some spring sports photos. Flushed from...
Reaching across wrestling history tying Cape...
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Embracing the past -
I saw the Brittingham boys, Eugene and Kevin, roll into the Cape Big...
Time to doff the masks and put the masked marvels to...
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Strange rangers - The Lone Ranger loses his uniqueness if all riders in the posse are masked and...
Past and present converge at Henlopen Wrestling...
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Convergence - “Planets are spinning in space, may as well enjoy the race. Isn’t it a lovely ride...
Decision to not to renew JD Maull’s contract is...
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Goners -
Coaching contracts are sometimes not renewed, and there are no “just cause”...
Cape goes Captain Crunch, winning four championships
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Crunch of Cape sports champions -
The long weekend started Thursday with the boys’ and...
Blue and the Britts roll into Cape wrestling match
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Blue rolls into wrestling match - “I haven’t been to a Cape wrestling match in 40 years,” said...
Seasons wind down as the intensity cranks up
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Everyday people - “I love everyday people.” - Sly Stone. I am immersed inside the wrestling culture...
Vaughn Trammel selected for Delaware Afro American...
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Cuzzie - Vaughn Trammel, a 1976 Cape graduate and multi-sport raw athlete built for speed and power...
Tony Hazzard’s smile and style powered Cape’s Little...
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Heaven in the house - Cape’s Little Big House was heaven for Tony Hazzard. Back in the day, there...
Adjusting sports lineups in your head is exhausting
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Run but can’t hide - Flashback to 1985: I’m coaching Cape track. We are an unbeaten team with 30...
Deebo Samuel snapped Saturday like Debo Lister on...
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Deebo dogs Packers - Talk is profusely and endlessly complimentary for quarterbacks Joe Burrow of...
Seeing the landscape as a kaleidoscope of color hues
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Identity politics - “ Identity politics is a political approach wherein people of a particular...
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