Family is the coach who can put their ‘player’ back in the game
All in the family - I took a photo of Sean Wedeking of Seaford on the Rehoboth Boardwalk prior to the Sundance Run and Swim Festival and joked, "I guess it's kind of weird when a stranger starts reading your chest." Then I asked him if the large four-leaf clover tattoo with the words “Honor Thy Family” had any special significance. "I was not doing good with my life; I was out of control and I needed help,” he said. “The only people I could rely upon were my family. They stood by me when I didn't deserve it. They saved me. All my friends were gone." Inspiration Sunday morning on the Boardwalk - seek and you shall find - maybe - is this case absolutely.
Mr. Field Hockey - Delaware field hockey beat Central Michigan 10-3 Aug. 28. Jacki Coveleski had three assists, and Maggie Delp played and got a green card so she can continue to live and go to school and work in the United States. The hockey house of cards works like this.Yellow means warning, green means out for 5/10 minutes, red is out the rest of the game. Two yellows equal a green, two greens equal a red. One website listed a green as a warning for foul play. Sounds like a criminal investigation. During Cape’s hockey play day, a player (not Cape) was chirping about a teammate's yellow card, ending her diatribe with, “These refs suck!” "Ejected at Play Day” is a T-shirt I would wear. Towson lost a pair of games to St. Joe’s 5-1 then to Temple 9-0, but Marlee McGinness was in the starting lineup for the Temple game. Torrie Huk (a Sussex Tech-Milford girl) had an assist on the first goal of the game, as UMass Lowell defeated Quinnipiac 2-1 to open the season for the River Hawks Aug. 28. The River Hawks beat Providence College 3-2 Aug. 30. Torrie started and had a shot on goal.
Porcelain quarterback - Sam Bradford of the Philadelphia Eagles was a No. 1 overall pick coming out of Oklahoma. He is a deadly accurate passer and can check down and follow his progressions and the rest of that nonsense. But can he take a licking and keep on ticking? Michael Vick and before him Donovan McNabb and way before that Randall Cunningham all had escapability and all got “lit up” on a weekly basis. I think the Eagles' approach should be "Bradford to get us up then Mark Sanchez to get beaten up." And maybe that’s why you keep Tim Tebow because when the defense pins its ears back to rush the quarterback you rush right back at them with Tebow.
Beautiful day in the neighborhood - Saturday at Cape was inside/outside all day play day featuring volleyball and field hockey. It’s also what I call political capital day where smart administrators and other coaches “cruise and schmooze,” meeting parents and kids and being accessible because it’s what you do. So if a hundred kids are out and about on campus, why not be there unless you’re not a generalist who sees the entire integrated picture, in which case go work retail. New head coach of girls' basketball Lauren Carra was at both venues, as was girls' lacrosse coach P.J. Kesmodel. I introduced them to each other from across a couple generations, but as coaches they reside in the same place. “Lauren is going to talk to our hockey girls about her basketball program,” assistant hockey coach Debbie Windett said. "I think it’s great for kids to play multiple sports if that's what they want.”
Doesn’t count, but does it matter? The Cape football team looked less than stellar Aug. 28 in a scrimmage at Lake Forest versus the Lake Forest Spartans and Middletown Cavaliers. Middletown receivers went through the Cape secondary like the Invisible Man through Times Square. It seemed every pass was caught. Defending the running game wasn’t much better. Cape did get the offense rolling and looked OK, but with every single play captured on desktop digital format in the home office of each coach and at least one sportswriter, you don’t have to be Alex Trebek to know some jobs are in jeopardy.
Snippets - Cape soccer opens the “for real” season Saturday, Sept. 5, playing Parkside at 9.a.m. then Bennett at 4 p.m. in the Paint Branch Tournament, whatever the heck that means.
Delaware football opens at home Friday, Sept. 4, hosting Jacksonville at 7 p.m. Delaware is not in the FCS preseason Top 25 and not in the “Others Receiving Votes” category either. Delaware does play No. 3 Villanova, Division I North Carolina, No. 7 New Hampshire and No. 13 James Madison. The good news is the Blue Hens can play their way into the national picture.
Coastal Carolina, where George Glenn is the director of football operations, is ranked fifth in the preseason poll. “Hey! Hey! Mr. Official!”
Go on now, git!
