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BJ Joseph, the quintessential point guard, steps off...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
BJ Joseph steps off - Boys’ basketball coach BJ Joseph retired from the craziness of high school...
The mystery of monies and the real costs of college
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
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
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
What up big guy? My older brother Tom , nicknamed Moose, grew up the biggest guy on the block. He...
Old dogs pose in a snow squall to capture a...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Field and Stream - A quiet snow squall caught us all by surprise Friday afternoon, prompting...
Something strange happens when a girls’ game is...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Something strange happened - On Jan. 29, the undefeated Woodbridge girls’ basketball team beat...
Cape to start middle school club lacrosse for girls
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
My bad - I was on the record in recent history saying I thought the addition of middle school cross...
Graciousness the upside of good sportsmanship
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Good graciousness - The Cape wrestling win at Sussex Tech was in the books 45-21, and I rose up...
Kids share magical moments with coach/parents
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Come get these memories - An important game Friday night at Cape’s Big House. The bleachers are...
Everyday people inspire others every day
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Rules of Engagement - I arrived at Dover High Jan. 8 to photograph the Cape girls’ basketball game...
Smyrna wrestling showed sportsmanship in sudden loss...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Part of the game - The Cape wrestling team beat Smyrna in the Big House 34-33 Jan. 9 for the first...
Caruso is a good guy who wants to be a teacher/coach
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Choir boy - I sat down with Cape wrestler Anthony Caruso Tuesday morning at Cape, deciding not to...
Destiny’s Child leads the Eagles to New Orleans to...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Destiny’s Child - “We” do not control our own destiny, because fate is predetermined. Nick Foles to...
Postcards from the Fred: Players are primetime...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Postcards from the Fred - This column, “People in Sports,” has been here for 37 years. Sometimes it...
High-performance two-sport athlete Jamie Schirmer...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Big Diesel Cat - Jamie Schirmer is a Sussex Tech senior and homegrown citizen of the 684. He weighs...
The Beast of the East is an absolute bear
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Skin in the game -The Beast of the East wrestling tournament contested at the University of...
My cat was away in a manger, but later he came back
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Christmas column - My tomcat had a case of the manger once, so he wouldn’t come in from the barn...
Cape girls’ basketball teams’ combined 134-4 score...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Task force talk - No trash talk, no tough talk and no character-building seminars. Someone up the...
Cape Big House rocks with impact players outside the...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Impact player - Luke Williams rolled into Cape as “the new kid,” and because of the junior’s...
Get up and give back, Sean Mann directs Mariner...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Walk like a Mann - Sean Mann, head coach of Mariner wrestling and former heavyweight at Cape,...
Runners and wrestlers are a tough breed who go at it...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Crash cart - Ron Carpenter, 69, of Hudson, Mont. (not the 6-foot-7 Cape basketball guy from the ’...
John Collins and service dog Mahi show respect...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Head on a swivel - I call the gym at Sussex Central “The Happy House” after the Golden Knights won...
Downstate football doubles down at Delaware
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Double down at Delaware - My journalist colleagues from the News Journal, Brad Myers and Kevin...
In Delaware sports history, we are all related to...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Connections - Jeremy and Josh Bushweller are twins who played on the Dover football team that beat...
Running kids love the game and just endure the pain
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Pain management - An incredible number of young athletes under 13 are showing up in 5K races...
Americans don’t need a holiday excuse to overeat
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Cold turkey -
I miss being crazy and running in freezing weather that’s so windy and cold it...
Cape hockey family rocked by passing of Bill Windett...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
A Prayer for Bill Windett - On Nov. 14, the extended Cape hockey family lost Bill Windett, husband...
Signing day is a single step in the right direction
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Signing Day - Each signing day, I take photos of ceremonial signings by students who commit by...
Sports and society is a two-way mirror of life...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Turn on those sad songs - The rhythm of the falling rain poured down over Cape’s Senior Night Nov...
Cape quarterback connections reach across the cosmos
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Cosmic Cape quarterback connections - Quarterback Merek Harrigan-Ferro wears No. 5 and reminds me...
Capturing the good in all of us under the Friday...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Auto Focus - The national anthem plays before a game, and I remove my headgear and my camera...
Fun and success mesh with competitive spirit for...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Cosmic Razzmatazz - Cape field hockey is heading into another state tournament next week, and there...
Autism Awareness Week includes the captains circle...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Shelter in place - I show up super early for sports assignments, then I just hang out in my 4Runner...
Walk tall and carry a measuring wheel
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Walking Tall - I was sitting in my 14-year-old 4Runner at Browns Branch County Park off Killens...
Magic Jack, built like an acrobat, hits 5K trail run...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Magic Jack Noel - Jack, an actual magician, finished the Bethel Trail Run 5K in 43:24 on his 80th...
Gobbledygook: the language used to deflect realities...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Robust club teams - Gobbledygook is a word I reserve for academics who throw shade on sensitive...
Philly photographer on the road, the coach takes my...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Ghost town - This is the only photo in existence with all three Dave Fredericks in it. The...
Jack McPike to be honorary captain for Cape...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Healing Hands - The Cape football team of 2018 has reached back a decade to touch tradition and to...
Cagey Coverdale still a closer on the field hockey...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Cagey Coverdale - Erin Coverdale is the most unlikely-looking assassin on the hockey field, and off...
Rules of engagement - Conor unfurls banner to...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Peyton’s place - I’m the gramps guy taking thousands of finish photos at the Dogfish Dash,...
Halftime walk to locker room through hot dog line...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Deuce it up - It’s not easy for a young football player to walk through the hot dog crowd at...
Comcast to Coach Fred 37 years and a minute late
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Coach and Comcast - A Comcast technician stepped out of his truck onto my driveway 37 years and one...
Everybody knows somebody at Taste of Sposato 5K run
5 years ago
Everybody knows your name - Daisy Hughes is the face everyone knows at a saturated Sunday morning...
Checking out sports practices to get a sense of it all
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Go to what I know - I’ve been sportswriter for 36 years, and it’s been a 42 years since I coached a...
Sports mirror life in a happy to sad haphazard pattern
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Rough patch -
Cape football left the bus barn for the 2018 season and has encountered a pair...
Darby Klopp glitters like gold, upping everyone’s game
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Girl Scout Gold Award - “You got gold, gold inside of you, well I got some, gold inside me too.” -...
Lilly Barnett is a story we share, an image that...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Keeping composure -
I caught it as I lost it down in Delmar Friday night, sitting on the...
Riley and Rylie meet at Seattle cannabis convention
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
The Enforcer - Riley Cote played eight years in the NHL, including four as a left winger for the...
Keep on dancing and a-prancing, Warshauers married...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Keep on dancing - I photographed Rich Warshauer as he finished the Last Blast Prediction 5K on Sept...
Biscuit Bobby Knox was a 1,000-yard rusher for Cape...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Hard Knox - That’s a good way to describe the Cape running back that friends and teammates called...
Kids are cool, so step back with your big helium...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Who am I, Art Linkletter? - Art wrote a series of books, “Kids Say the Darndest Things,” based on...
Pancake blocks and driving defenders like a rented...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Assessing, not guessing - Cape head football coach J.D. Maull can talk all day about the five...
Athletes often Rise to meet the moment without...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Rise to the occasion - Ryan Peters, in 90 pounds of jump gear, was escorted by his wife Amanda...
Dave Truitt of Lewes honored with his own Blue Rocks...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Quiet and classy - A round corner table at the Rehoboth Beach Country Club, the Rehoboth Bay as a...
Best Buddies 5K puts the perspective on friendship
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Best Buddies - Making new buddies at the Best Buddies 5K held Aug. 12 at Dewey Beach Lions Club...
The bond is unbroken between coaches Maull and Glenn
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Relentlessness - Cape football coach JD Maull spent the week at Coastal Carolina with his Cape...
Harry K Foundation feeds hungry kids of Delaware
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Harry K Foundation and hungry kids - I’ve seen high school kids miss lunch due to an emergency...
Young athletes at old school keep community connected
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Young guy and old school - My old high school, Bishop Egan, and Cape, where I taught for 29 years,...
Robin Adair steps off as Tower Hill’s head coach of...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Robin retires - Coach Robin Adair has retired as head coach of field hockey at Tower Hill School...
Legendary Lefties a local sports legacy
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Leftys - This priceless photo shows Johnny Morris and Chris Short (Lewes High left-handed hurlers)...
Dolphins and Democrats: Sometimes a shirt is just a...
Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Dolphins and Democrats - I attended my first indoor barbecue July 21 to celebrate Bill Collick’s...
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