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We own our milestones: The longer we stay, the more...
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Mr. Vice President - I refused to call my friend Jerry McNesby Mr. Vice President, although he is...
Range Rover girl becomes Dr. Amanda Alexander
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Range Rover - I talked to relentless runner Amanda Alexander two years ago about her Range Rover,...
Anonymity by the Sea is a First Amendment right
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Here comes the judge - Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh ran the Dewey Beach Patrol...
Meet on the street: Friends sharing an ocean breeze
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Muppet Alex - Alex Pires and I are age contemporaries. We are not alpha dogs, more like Parliament-...
Facial recognition and casual conversation here on...
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Text talk -
Nice threads. Ever get a text message “Call me” and mostly we text back, “Why,...
Looking back 20 years with Cape quarterback Jonny...
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Jonny Howard - The No H Cape quarterback, wearing his black Big H logo Under Armour shirt, showed...
Person-to-person connection is as real as it gets
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4 years ago
It got real quick - The Tunnel to Towers 5K Aug. 10 at Cape brought together shared memories and...
Fall season finds a diverse array of Cape athletes...
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Fall fashions - This segment features Cape athletes wearing college uniforms across the array of...
Summer runners size you up and shake you down
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Peeps get chicked - Brittany Lang, 21, beat 195 runners to the finish at the Greene Turtle 5K on...
Children circle us like a galaxy of stars
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4 years ago
Heroes and friends - Our heroes form a galaxy of stars, and our stars are children. July 31 was...
Summer wrestling: getting stronger, gaining...
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Team Delaware - Let’s talk wrestling, because it’s not running or Little League, lacrosse or...
Camps, competitions and the cost of being a player
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
My school is broken - Eve Parker is 7 years old; her family is new to the Cape district. I asked...
Five Dollar Lax Camp as cool as ice-cold lemonade
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4 years ago
Five Dollar Lax Camp - Quinn Nutter and Shelby Manlove ran a little lacrosse clinic for younger...
Cape lands a gem in ESL teacher Carla Yngve
Dave Frederick
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Carla cruises to Cape - Cape captured a gem Thursday with the hiring of Carla Phillips Yngve as an...
Bikers bogart the flyways and byways; walking is...
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Mosquito Coast - Save the application of Off! and Skin So Soft. Once ravenous marsh-side mosquitoes...
Muppets are the serious players behind Cape’s...
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
One Mississippi, two Mississippi - I’m at home among football guys. They are intense, yet they make...
Country is kookoo for Coco Gauff
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Kookoo for Coco - I watched the improbable comeback win July 5 in the third round of Wimbledon as...
A coach talking the talk shows spiritual strength...
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Alvontae Drummond - A born-to-coach personality type, Alvontae wrestled for Milford (2013 state...
Quietly charismatic coach Big Aug Micelli taught 60...
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4 years ago
Big Aug - Teacher/coach Augustine Micelli passed away June 29 at the age of 85. “Big Aug” taught...
Vezmar of Milford barefoots Hospice Hotfoot 5K
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4 years ago
Hotfoot Hospice - David Vezmar, 45, lives in Milford, so it wasn’t much of a jaunt for him to...
Elephant towers over the herd at Jungle Jim’s 5K
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4 years ago
Billy and Uncle Bill - Young Billy Lingo, all-state attack on Cape’s lacrosse state championship...
Reds Spirit Award winners found on 20-year-old...
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Reds Spirit Award - Aurelio “Reds” Maestri emigrated to Lewes from Austria in the late 1940s at the...
Kids are naturally cool don’t ask them to perform
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Kids are cool -
Someone once said to me, “little kids seem to like you, Fredman. Why is...
Cape boys’ lacrosse players go hard and you can...
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Simply the best - I have been saying this over the last 25 years: “The Cape boys’ lacrosse team is...
Bloodied warrior Matt Prestipino all about the grit...
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Draw blood - Matt Prestipino, a senior long pole dirty worker on Cape’s lacrosse team, was floating...
Summer sports stories take over as schools shut down
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Shut down scribe - Scholastic sports take a rest for a couple of summer months as they have the...
Protection of runners becoming cost-prohibitive
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4 years ago
The Great Schnozzola - Jimmy Durante, a vaudevillian comedian and radio and TV personality from the...
I never liked fishing with the fleet; I’m an obtuse...
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Most goals attract most reporters -
The Cape win over Archmere May 29 took a long time. When...
Hands across the generations, the connectedness of...
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Hank and Luke - Hank and Luke D’Ambrogi, Cape lacrosse players, were mildly surprised when walking...
In shared realities of sports, sometimes we see the...
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Players of the Game - I create my own realities, and most times there are other people inside my...
Fast Times at Sussex Central High; sprinters snap...
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Five fast guys - The Sussex Central boys’ track team won both sprint relays in the Division I State...
Lindsay and Lopez last girls to play goalie for boys...
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Dos porteros - The Beacon boys’ lacrosse team finished the season 8-0-1 and never gave up more than...
Get the shot and the story will follow
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Got it! But missed it! Fleet-footed Alia Marshall scored her 100th career lacrosse goal on the...
Great-grandfathers on game day, hands across the...
Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Captain and Chief - The connections are there, but you have to see them, and you have to know the...
Young guns of lacrosse get to ‘play’ on Cape’s turf...
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Little Laxers - Four young players got to dress up and warm up with the Cape varsity team May 3, as...
The affection connection bridging the generations at...
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The sea of history - I’m just another old guy who claims he feels younger today than he did when...
I rolled the coin of comedy-tragedy right down the...
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Missed clues and misinterpretations - Privilege has its place in American private education, but...
Share the road. Running is not a real sport like...
Dave Frederick
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Real sports - I remember when runners first began running early morning races from Anglers Road in...
Two standard deviations to the right of ideal weight
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Peep and greet - I saw a friend from my Easter basket of Bermuda grass and no candy, Carla Yngve,...
Lily Ashby meets the moment with an assist from...
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5 years ago
Lilies of the Field - Lily Ashby is a flower; her name could have been Blossom. She is a romp-...
Cape-Sallies showdown highlights Dave Reynolds...
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5 years ago
Eyeball to eyeball - Cape beat Sallies lacrosse Friday night at Wesley Stadium 12-8. The game...
Sussex Central lacrosse kids show good old American...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Sussex Central lacrosse -
The Golden Knights got waxed by Cape in both the JV and varsity...
A network and teenagers run Power 2 Parkinson’s 5K
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Across the generations - The Power 2 Parkinson’s 5K held April 7 at Sussex Academy was a student-...
Being lost in the game qualifies Lilly Short as a...
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Coaches Corner - I asked Sussex Tech soccer coach Carlos Villa, a longtime friend, to send me a...
Sonja Friend-Uhl wins masters 800-meter indoor world...
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Sonja Friend-Uhl - Sonja won the 800-meter state title in 2:18 in 1989 while running for Cape. On...
Cape basketball coach Steve Re resigns, will focus...
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Re resigns - March Madness is called The Big Dance, but when it comes to sports, I only dance alone...
Cape lacrosse rolls onto Bullis School campus in...
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Buicks in parking lots - I have joked, “There are no Buicks in the parking lot of a club team...
Clearing the decks: tracking athletes and coaches
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Injured and Ignored - Injured athletes and those not in the rotation for reasons unknown stand on...
Youngest to oldest runners embrace the day and what...
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Sub masters -
The combined ages of the first three runners at the Shamrock Shuffle 5K March...
Faith, hope and love - the three leaves of the lucky...
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Luck of the Irish - A decade of fun St. Patrick’s Day practices has resulted in 10 straight state...
Poppy Kevin Smith is running while Joe is biding his...
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Poppy is running, but is Joe? - Little Poppy Kevin Smith had a 30-year career working for Joe Biden...
Track has a no-cut policy and most state titles in...
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Carnival barkers - Spring track and field has big numbers at Beacon and Mariner middle schools, and...
Cape girls’ lacrosse reconfigures, chasing 11th...
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Reconfiguration - The 2019 Cape girls’ lacrosse team practiced on the Champions Stadium turf March...
Stratton cousins and Sussex County kinship
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Taylor and Trey Hatfield: Siblings together in the...
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Everybody cries when the tough guy dies
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Fred twins doubled up - We all cry when the tough guy dies. John Forestieri passed away peacefully...
Davey Fred is the ultimate unifier of downstate...
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BJ Joseph, the quintessential point guard, steps off...
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The mystery of monies - If I cared about money, I’d have a lot more, but discussions of finances...
Big guys grow up trying not to hurt their friends
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5 years ago
What up big guy? My older brother Tom , nicknamed Moose, grew up the biggest guy on the block. He...
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