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Postcard-perfect race: Let the images do the talking
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Patriot Games - Running a 5K around the perimeter of the Cape campus during a pandemic is on the...
‘Everybody is a Trophy’ wins the creativity prize
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Theme park - The Cape hockey team showed up for Halloween practice at Champions Stadium Oct. 30 and...
Picture postcard perfect cross country at Polytech
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Postcard perfect - The cross country meet at Polytech High School Oct. 28 in Woodside was run on a...
Cape hockey rolling from harvest toward hunter’s moon
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Hockey by quarters - A season where the clock has gone from two 30-minute halves to four 15-minute...
Lose with dignity, win with zoom class
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Emotionally spent -
The weather report is brought to you by Calzones and AutoZone. October...
Social distance running and thundering herd immunity
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Thundering herd - Social distance running shrouded by fall foliage, the bigger high school cross...
Cape is a community of athletes and artists
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Artistry and athletics - Remember the dreaded game of Pictionary? It’s weird, I have a type of...
Say hello and act like you know the players
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
New kid on the block - At cross country practice, I called out “Hey, Andrew!” He is sophomore...
Wild wild nights when the green was grass, three...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Wild Wild Nights - Four score, five years and three high schools ago, Bill Collick and I were new...
Mayor Al Stango and the Lewes Marathon
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Spaghetti every Friday -
I interviewed
Bob Fletcher
in 1983 about his book “...
Coaches often magnetize the marginalized
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Coach in the building -
Let’s just go back through 50 years of Cape high school sports and...
Sports fans: Everybody’s watching everybody else
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Lumbering along -
Sunday was a long day’s journey into the night for Fruity Fred Pop. I’d...
Hand over the heart and quiet reverence always shows...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
The Wright stuff -
Took this photo of
Kolbi Wright
before a Cape football game in...
Seven on Seven lacrosse full speed on half field
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Seven on seven -
I was at DE Turf Sunday night taking photos of a half-field, seven-on-...
Local muppets and families bonded for a lifetime...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Diamond in the rough - Point to point across the diamond from home plate to straight-away center, I...
Sunday morning coming down at Champions Stadium
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Masking the problem - “How are you little bandits doing?” On Sunday morning, I cruised around the...
Last-word syndrome dominates discourse on social media
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Outworked - It is easy to outwork people in the sports arena, from playing to coaching to being a...
Lee ‘Doc’ Masser dies at 84, closing chapter of an...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
I’m about half - “How are you feeling?” “I’m about half.” Not sure what that expression means. It’s...
Legendary sports figures Thompson and Seaver pass away
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Young Tracy - Tracy Jones Jr. shared a photo of himself with legendary Georgetown University...
Watermel Run 5K in Laurel showcases a downstate...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Sisterhood -
My day at the Watermel Run 5K Aug. 30 began at 7 a.m. in Laurel at Janosik...
“You don’t cut nobody, you ain’t no doctor”
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Zing go the strings -
A Cape football lineman in 1987 grabbed the back of his leg before...
Second checker! Muppet Mike Toohey leaves the...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Second checker! Each and every time I saw Mike Toohey over the last 35 years, I’d say, “Second...
Money is its own reward; for some it beats recognition
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Speeding Belltown Bullet - This Bullet's name was Kevin, not to be confused with Kyle. There are a...
The difference between a milestone and a millstone...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Moving through Milestones - Big Mike Donovan, a 6-foot-8 former Marine and a bit of a wild child,...
Fosters and field hockey and tumbling cheerleaders
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Four Paws and Southern Draw - Cape field hockey coach Kate Windett Austin is a Grass Roots Rescue...
Mishearing is a step away from misspeaking and...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Nikita Khrushchev - Tampa Bay Lightning winger Nikita Khrushchev was on a breakaway but was stoned...
Sesame Street by the Sea featuring buckets of muppets
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Cape is a concept and a place - I met Cape baseball coach Ben Evick outside the fence at Champions...
Athletes pursue their own passion, they cannot be...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Passion to Play - The 2019 girls’ lacrosse season began practice missing the Killer Vs, Vienna...
Ricky Santos and Chip Kelly lit it up at Delaware...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Hey Ricky! “Oh Ricky, you’re so fine, you’re so fine, you blow my mind, Hey Ricky, hey Ricky. ” –...
Academics balanced by sports is a false equivalence
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
False equivalencies - There are no physical requirements to earn a seat in an honors or Advanced...
Cape’s wrestling managers worth their weight in gold
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
High school cool - I have much respect for team managers. I have always been that guy since I was a...
Big Train Trugman retires from Amtrak to Lewes
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Trugman’s Train Trip - Neil Trugman, the chief investigating officer for Amtrak, retires to Lewes...
Coach Cutty rocks the bald head look; jokes ...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Pandemic got me - Coach Gilbert “Cutty” Maull goes back to the Cape days when Bill Muehleisen...
Coach Jim Alderman passes away in Florida at age 77
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Coach Alderman - In late summer 1976, Rehoboth Beach lifeguards Bill Collick and Fredman had been...
Alpha dogs don’t bite; Alderman players say ‘Thank...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Alpha dogs don’t bite - A symmetry of sadness I want to share. My brother Tom died Nov. 28. His...
Footprints in the sand: Remembering Nate at his best
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Footprints in the sand - “ Nathan Bates Carnevale, 27, of Rehoboth Beach took his own life on the...
I’ve read more refrigerator doors than books
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Community connections -
There is a starting point when a person plugs into the community,...
Designated hitter comes to the National League
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
How ya doin’? Got a cellphone call from Billy Lorah on Saturday afternoon. He and Ralph Karl were...
Playing dumb is way smarter than actually being dumb
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Gimme Shelter - The last thing the young lacrosse players wanted to hear after three months of...
Moments are fleeting but the magic endures
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Help me, Rona - We have reached the point in the pandemic where wearing a mask is a political...
Philly friend Mike Brown looks after Temple athletes...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Philly friend - (Written in 2018) Mike Brown, 59, a father of four and grandfather of eight, works...
Lorah and Karl don’t send thoughts and prayers, they...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Prayers and players - Some people send thoughts and prayers, while others send themselves. Billy...
Norman Poole, a lifetime hall of fame good guy
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Walking the planet - I asked a couple people who go deep with Seaford history if teacher/coach...
Joking relationships are enjoyed by close friends...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
The fear of funny -
Humor is often a pressure-release valve, letting off steam from the...
Athletes find each other on tracks and boardwalks
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Athletic attraction - A public school track that is open to the public attracts people, especially...
Prophet on the porch wonders ‘What’s Going On?’
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Tribal elders -
I have landed beyond the demographic as a lifelong teacher and writer. I...
The road just traveled muddles the pandemic path...
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Hole in one -
I knew something was wrong when an image of lawyer
Bill Schab
holding...
Focusing the frame inside the Big Picture
Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Big Picture Man - I nicknamed my former Cape student Matt Gibson, class of 1997, Big Picture Man...
The rug you’re standing on gets yanked – do you...
Dave Frederick
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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...
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