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Morgan’s Message - We sports muppets from Sesame Street by the Sea share the joy of comradeship and...
Cape muppets sing Al Green’s ‘Let’s Stay Together’
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Not a fan - I am the guy who has never left high school sports since I walked into freshman...
Smiley and the Smiler win CoDel marathon titles
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The irony and the agony - On Sunday morning, I worked the happy trails of the Coastal Delaware...
One-trick Poppy: Falling back to one game a day
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One-trick Poppy - There are more streamers than the Philly New Year's Day Mummers Parade at most...
Soap opera sports just a proliferation of pundits
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Cognition crazies - Perhaps women's college basketball was better off before the crazies without...
Genetic predisposition for excellence in sports? -...
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Logomotion three-balls - Change the haircut, put on multiple pairs of floppy socks, change the TV...
Community impact players Ayers and Lofland leave...
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Garland Ayers - Garland died last week, and we are selfishly sad because someone who openly loved...
Preacher man Paulen wins four golds at national...
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Bob Paulen - A great guy, athlete, and 86-year-old Yale Doctor of Divinity, Bob lives in downtown...
Bracket-head Fred hits billows of pillows recalling...
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Bracket-head Fred - I watched Creighton beat Oregon in double overtime Saturday past midnight, then...
Sports stories fun to tell but harder to write and...
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Telling stories - A lyric from the Tracy Chapman song, “Telling Stories,” released in 2000: “There...
Italian guys win Shamrock Shuffle races
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Italian stallions - The Shamrock Shuffle 5K and 10-Miler races on St. Patrick’s Day inside Cape...
Smile and seize an exquisite spring day; later you...
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Smiling faces -
I strafed spring practices at Cape March 13, with 4 p.m. temperatures...
Lucky Leprechaun 5K a majestic small-town showcase
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Squall and squawk - A total of 500 runners endured a 20-minute dark cloud, but there was no whining...
Vision Quest: seeing and assessing the sports world...
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Vision Quest - Cape wrestling grappled at Sussex Tech Feb. 7, when the Ravens put a scare into the...
Blanket coverage of championship wrestling from the...
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Blanket coverage - I was Pop Pop in the paddock last weekend, contagiously sick sitting under a...
Hundreds of athletes show up for first week of...
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We talkin’ practice - More than 100 boys and girls showed up on the first day of spring track...
Wrestling fans cheer for underdogs and upsets
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Upset specials -
The Henlopen Conference wrestling finals Feb. 24 at Sussex Central’s...
Unsung is not unappreciated
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Noah Diamond - “Sweet Caroline” is a song by Neil Diamond that inspired a new generation of fans...
Seasoned sports fans can hang tough all day long
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Hang tough -
Parents, players, sportswriters and all connected cousins, uncles and aunts...
Gaining wisdom while losing perspective seems like a...
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Gaining wisdom, losing perspective -
I have always been wise beyond my years, but I’ve...
Super Bowl Sunday is a placation vacation and power...
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Boomer or bigot - I avoided all pregame run-ups to the Super Bowl then watched the longest game...
Wrestling culture remains strong in downstate Delaware
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Hate the bite - “Don’t hate the black. Don’t hate the white. If you get bit, just hate the bite...
Dogs on the run are fun until you trip over one
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Bully for you - My exact same age running friend Leo Hannigan, 77, was finishing the Run to the...
Matside Muppets bring a softer side to sometimes...
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Matside Muppets - Cape wrestling’s 38-25 win over Caesar Rodney Jan. 31 followed 20 middle school...
Sports are jargonistic language takes on different...
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Hard charging - It just made me laugh because the phrase "bull in a china shop" aptly describes the...
NFL Championship Weekend best watched on mute
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Insulting intelligences - Speaking of sports, how many hours of programming do we need as a runup...
Linemen for Life make for good chiropractors
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3 months ago
Dr. Devin Miller - Devin Miller, a lineman for life, played for Cape and Wesley, a gifted 6-foot-5-...
The best is behind you; the better is in front
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Simply the best - Remembering people at their best is a credo I follow as a columnist when...
The portal is passed down, enticing younger players...
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Your first mistake - There is no space between assessment and action for the prime-time athlete...
Two sports in the same season was old-school Cape
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Six-sport athletes - Randy Johnson, Cape Class of 1977, lived on School Lane off Savannah Road in...
Reading the lips of the fans in the stands
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He dropped it! -
I thought I was ambivalent as to the outcome of the Indianapolis Colts...
Stoop culture from Brooklyn to Philly is about...
Dave Frederick
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Stoop culture - Spawned from the steps of Brooklyn and Philly swim storytelling and clever joke...
Pop Tart and the Mad Stork from Cape’s Class of 1999
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Pop Tarts Bowl -
Played Dec. 28 in Orlando, Fla., and won by Kansas State 28-19 over N.C...
Race out with the old, but keep racing into the new...
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Days at the races -
I’ll be back on the habitrail to anywhere on the last day of 2023...
Gatorade Player of the Year banners hang in the Big...
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Gatorade Player of the Year - I took a photo of some new Gatorade Player of the Year banners...
Icons and goats: best not to poke the bears; history...
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Iconic Cape teams - Teams that have won state championships over 50 years of sports history are not...
Ugly Sweater 5K a fun and feel-good race for...
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Redemption City - On Saturday morning, I photographed an Ugly Sweater 5K from the Cape Henlopen...
The Inclusion Kid turns 21; his life has been a...
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Flip disc to slipped discs - The Inclusion Kid Davey Fred will celebrate his 21st birthday Saturday...
Cape tracksters excel at Alvernia Holiday Classic
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Alvernia Holiday Classic -
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Carrie Clausius a perfect choice for Tough Cookie...
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Lost it -
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4,000 runners and no political messages
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Protected political speech - I took 4,000 photos of runners Saturday morning at the Rehoboth Beach...
Each coach and player are central figures in Friday...
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The best of us -
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History in the house: Reflections on 53 years of...
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Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 was a popular wistful pop alternative rock hit reflecting on coming of age...
Heroes who stay the same mean all muppets stay the...
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Zackzilla - I went to a Monday luncheon at McGlynns Pub in Dover with a few Delaware Sportswriters...
It’s not revenge, it’s a reckoning
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Avenging and revenging - Two teams play each other in a game chasing the same goal, which is a...
Facial recognition is the truth while numbers...
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Ozmeer and Amari are fast friends - Ozmeer Daisey Batson was celebrated in last Friday’s Gazette as...
Post-game celebrations are not always cool for the...
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Good gracious - I am not a fan of staying on the field for the post-game presentation of the...
Photographing faces floating in the spaces of sports
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5 months ago
Faces and voices -
I like photographing faces and listening to beautiful voices, and the...
A day at the races, lots of runners and faces
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Coach culture - The varsity boys’ race started at 3:20 p.m. on a picture-perfect Saturday, Nov. 4,...
‘Jeans’ takes me back; coach Tracey captures me in...
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The past is prologue - Cape lacrosse goalie Chris “Jeans” Keller, Class of 2000, identified himself...
Pride goeth before the fall
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Sports is where the eternal present intersects the...
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Homecoming and historical Cape connections
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Mr. Timmons - Caesar Rodney quarterback Julius Timmons battled a swarming and pressing Cape defense...
Jimmy Gill, the crafty lefty, now associate athletic...
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Living the Dream - Jimmy Gill, the crafty lefty from Cape baseball who was also a basketball guard...
Come get these memories! Friday night at the Sussex...
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Graciousness and sportsmanship are life-lasting...
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Good graciousness - I came in the side door on the bench side of the turf field at Sussex Academy...
Past game stories live in the eternal present of...
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Bar tales - I learned the importance of remembering high school sports stories from my mentor Dick...
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Struck with a stick -
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Hodgson is not Hodgkins; Cape grad Gerald Allen is a...
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