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Summer is for strength, speed and nutrition
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Fish out of water - I’m a Cape person, but mostly a kid person, so June 1 I walked onto the...
Take it to the House of Spirits and remember them all
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
House of Spirits - Magic Mikey Fred played for a state championship in lacrosse Thursday night,...
Two Cape teams in lax finals; fans pay two times
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Double game-day face - The Cape girls’ and boys’ lacrosse programs each played state championship...
Track is a digital, data-driven sport in real time
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Bits of digital data - The state track meet generates two days’ worth of live data which has to be...
Is Mullet Run Street in Milford named after the fish...
2 years ago
Biting midges - Known locally as No See Ums. Their scientific name is ceratopogonidae. What are...
Sunday morning track clinic at Sesame Street by the...
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Tim’s track clinic -
Sunday morning sunrise to slow-down day, I am heading out the door...
Hoping for sports success doesn’t come at the...
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Changing the locks -
Gates and doors around schools and fields are locked most of the time...
Coastal Sussex is a mecca of running races; just hit...
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Half in the bag - The 12th Seashore Striders Half Marathon, Relay and 5K run are in the books for...
Masks or no masks: What is going down in the world...
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
No mask, don’t ask - Fans from afar looked at my posted game photos of the May 5 girls’ lacrosse...
Read option: If a coach you know writes a book, go...
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Read option -
I just read “More Than One Goal” by Cape boys’ lacrosse coach
Mark D’...
Siblings score goals in Wednesday lacrosse games
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Sibling scorers -
In lacrosse games played April 28,
Lindsay D’Ambrogi
and her older...
Ice cream and wind-driven spray at Dairy Queen 5K
Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Rude is wrong -
Fans are back in the stands and so are some boneheaded boys who sit in the...
Forty years on the beat I wear a credential around...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Big yellow taxi -
“Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my name. But what’s confusing you...
Fields of dreams teeming with teams and fans in the...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Thursday Night Lights - It all looked normal and idyllic on the Cape campus April 15. Sussex Tech...
Some of my best friends are dogs
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Billy the Beagle - I have friends from the running scene I wouldn’t otherwise know, from some as...
Showdowns about to go down in high school baseball
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Let’s play hardball - The Cape Henlopen, Sussex Central and Sussex Tech baseball teams are all...
Bryan Stevenson to play piano with Wynton Marsalis’...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Honeysuckle Rose - Two years ago, Susan and I went to the Kimmel Center in downtown Philly to see...
I prefer Jim Palmer because he’s not John Kruk
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Palmer is my preference - All pizza is good. The one you like best is a matter of personal...
Crooked numbers dominating spring high school sports
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Crooked numbers - “Mercy, mercy me. Things ain’t like they used to be.” - Marvin Gaye. We have...
Sonja Friend-Uhl sets American record in 1,500...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
A Friend in speed - Sonja Friend-Uhl is a 50-year-old masters runner I’ve known since she was a 15-...
Come see about me and JV
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Come See About Me - The Supremes’ song that rhymes with JV. So full disclosure: My granddaughter...
Hear about the dairy farmer who milked the clock?
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Equalization Title IX - A civil rights law passed in 1972 prohibits sex discrimination in any...
Sports is a visual handoff to a history of colorful...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Visual handoff - In the fall of 1978, Jay Maull quarterbacked a Cape football team coached by Jim...
Kids of coaches learn the game is about patience and...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Underwoods in the hood - Coaches’ kids are socialized like therapy dogs. They grow up around lots...
Cape campus teeming with athletes for spring sports
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Thundering herd immunity - Legends Stadium was teeming with sports action March 9, with the boys’...
Burton and Currie light up Lax World at Bethany...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Hometown hat trickers - The Bison of Bethany College lacrosse are 1-1 this early season, having...
Keep your headgear handy and be ready to get back...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
El smacko - I was an embedded Fred with photo cred working inside the state wrestling tournament...
Satchels and gym bags hold cameras and crackers
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Satchel days - Back in my day, which was last Sunday and 900 moons ago, we athletes carried...
Josiah Miller: A true student-athlete pleasantly...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Four sports an hour - Josiah Miller
is a 6-foot-3, 275-pound Cape senior with brains and...
Einstein the Dirty Dog at Freeze the Day 5K
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Dirty dogging - A collie named Einstein was one of several canines at Sandhill Fields in Georgetown...
Everybody loves Tia Jarvis
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Circle Game - Coach Tim Bamforth is working with runner Tia Jarvis to determine if she is better...
Sweeney to Bunyan: Linemen for Life turned airline...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Undeclared majors -
While checking the University of Maryland football roster I noticed...
Laci Dixon, Cape lacrosse goalie, will graduate early
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Meeting the moment - Laci Dixon is a Cape junior and wrestling manager who just told coach Chris...
Delaware State football kicks off spring season Feb. 20
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Hornets football - An email from Delaware State offensive coordinator Steven Azzanesi about spring...
Sports are peeking out and sneaking out
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Spring field hockey - Division I field hockey play was shut down last fall because of COVID...
Olivia Weir cartwheels all the way into Big 10
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Nine to Big Ten - As a 9-year-old, Olivia Weir cartwheeled across the finish line in a 5K in...
Athletes know athletes and respect performance...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Athletes know athletes - Socially distanced Cape cheerleaders had their own section of home...
Indoor track held outside in weather that’s not that...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Indoor/outdoors -
An indoor track meet held outdoors Jan. 22 on Cape’s Legends Stadium track...
Some streamers are dreamers who forget to hit the...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
You there? - The answer to that texted question is always, yes, I am here; otherwise, I would have...
Old-school basketball and community connections
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Who rocks the house? - J-Roc rocks the house. Ja’Vaughn Burton is Eastern Basketball League early...
Tail over teakettle while keeping pace with fast...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Tail over teakettle -
Cape’s
Curtis Purnell
(2018) returns a kickoff on a Friday...
Winter sports contests begin with one fan per...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Side door -
I’m about to wade into the hot tub of indoor sports coverage. I take photos and...
Pointed moment: 40 years ago, student Richard...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Mainstreamed man - Most days are yesterday to me. I am in high school with my students, and before...
Cape sports culture changes as home prices zoom into...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
An all-time offensive line -
2014-15:
Tyre Maull, Julius Tyler, Devin Miller, Brandon...
Steve Snell was Cape’s Golden Richards in 1986
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Golden Richards - Steve Snell was the Golden Richards (Cowboys, Bears, Broncos) of Cape football,...
Wily Coyote quarterbacks at their best under pressure
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Wily Coyotes -
The old guys playing quarterback lit it up early Christmas weekend in the...
White heat runners and black heat hurlers
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
White heat - On a sun-drenched day in the summer of 2007, two blond white guys ran a barefoot...
Central casting coaches are a cadre of homegrown...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Central casting - If your ball cap is not on the last notch, you are probably not on the Sussex...
Winter track at Cape a 50-year tradition
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Winter track -
There is a tradition of winter/indoor track at Cape going back 50 years and...
Dawned on me late in the day – sports is irony in...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Senior citizens - The senior class of Cape field hockey players includes just six athletes: Julie...
Straight-jacketed in a goose-down vest
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Busman’s holiday - The term alludes to a bus driver who spends his day off taking a long bus ride,...
Buster and Nancy Neeman, two good sides with a field...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Buster and Nancy -
Field hockey officials
Buster
and
Nancy Neeman
refereed...
Sky looked like swirling nun spirits seeking me for...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Stormy Monday - It was late for me, showing up 30 minutes early for the 4:30 p.m. Henlopen...
Coach Matt Lindell, the sock puppet of Cape cross...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Screensocked - I was talking with veteran professional journalists Andy Walter and Marc Clery of...
Turkey bowls and trots and gobbles are suspended...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Turkey Bowls - The Coolspring tackle football Thanksgiving Day morning Turkey Bowl game ran...
Bill Jackson, a Philly to Lewes sports guy, passes...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Swoosh! Swoosh! Big-time sports friend of mine Bill Jackson, a Philly/Lewes guy like me, passed...
Emily Uffelman comes back from Lyme to run cross...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Lyme disease -
Shouting out the word “lime” evokes sensory memories of Frank's soda or the...
Jack McPike, the handsome Cape quarterback from 2010...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Quarterback Jack - Jack McPike, the handsome Cape quarterback and basketball player and affable...
Trust and Respect runs deep through the sports...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Trust -
I found out the news five minutes before I received a voicemail that simply said, “...
Race between the raw bar and the brewing company
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
SoDel Cares 5K and Mile Walk - It was a beautiful socially distanced morning for an in-person race...
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