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If you bash a local Muppet, the matrix comes back to...
3 days ago
Muppet Matrix - “Muppets don’t bash other muppets,” that is the code at Sesame Street by the Sea...
Jungle Jim’s more tame than the Sports Complex that...
6 days ago
Jungle Jim’s - Do you remember the giant water slide at Jungle Jim’s called The Rampage? That thing...
Savannah Bananas run trophy to Lewes Beach for a bay...
Dave Frederick
1 week ago
Savannah Bananas - I made a joke about the podium being purchased from the Laurel Flea Market...
Slippery when wet: A sports life connected by song...
Dave Frederick
1 week ago
Vanilla Fudge - A slippery-when-wet Rehoboth Boardwalk with Sunday morning drizzle welcomed 353...
Athletes in action powered by play, not slowed by...
Dave Frederick
2 weeks ago
Mostly cloudy - I cover the sports of field hockey and girls’ lacrosse, both competitions governed...
Character is the essence of the athlete revealed in...
3 weeks ago
Championship connections - I took a photo of the Clampitts after graduation and didn’t drop one...
Contagious celebrations in a neurodiverse universe
3 weeks ago
Team Reese - Reese Cathcart is a Mariner sixth-grader who plays field hockey and lacrosse. The 18th...
The Sussex Guide: Tim Holton runs tethered to Joe...
1 month ago
Sussex Guide - Tim Holton is, among other things, a transplant to Sussex County from Brooklyn, N.Y...
Moronic moments: We came to get down so jump around
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Moronic Moment - "Watch out, moron!” “No, you da Moron!” “Life is a highway. I wanna ride it all...
We are the champions, my friends; track athletes...
1 month ago
Two guys - There is no more athletic event on the track than the 110-meter high hurdles. It...
Runner is a two-time state champion, same event on...
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Two-time state champion - Junior McKenzie Winward of Newark Charter School is the two-time DII...
Champions compete without fear of failure
1 month ago
Champions Stadium - Step on the track or inside the lines in any sport and you are a champion with...
State track championships are a two-day lesson in...
1 month ago
Security blanket - The two-day divisional track championships held May 9-10 at Dover High School...
Keep your shirt on, just change colors
1 month ago
Polashirt - It’s a Philly pronunciation from my childhood – short sleeves, no collar, usually with...
‘Smile for the camera’ not what finishing runners...
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Smile on request - I don’t smile and I don’t take requests. But that's just me. Jackie Rams, a...
You can’t go home again, but home is where the heart is
1 month ago
Home is where the heart is - “You Can’t Go Home Again” is a novel by Thomas Wolfe that was...
Ice bag becomes swag for injured freshman Emmilyn...
2 months ago
Dislocated and mislocated - Emmilyn Swope has an effervescent personality. She is a freshman two-...
Cape’s three middle schools closing out year with 45...
2 months ago
Blood in the game - “I stand accused of the things I’ve said.” - BB King. When Cape had two middle...
Cape ballers from 50 years ago receive Hall of Fame...
Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Flashback 50 - The 1975 Cape state championship boys’ basketball team of coach Ralph Baird and...
Walk forcibly and carry a short stick; linemen for...
Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Linemen with long poles - Fred Thomas long pole defensemen Colin Callaway got his chance to clear...
Runners ride the wind around the bend
Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Ride the wind - “C’mon on the rising wind, we’re going up around the bend.” - John Fogarty, 1970...
Lawyer Bill Schab is a pro bono girls’ lacrosse...
Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Schab and Stahl - Sounds like a law firm, not a lacrosse coach and his granddaughters. Lawyer Bill...
Lizzie and Jamie witness Ovechkin’s record-breaking...
Dave Frederick
2 months ago
The question, “Where you at?” is grammatically incorrect but succinct and digitally friendly. High...
Mason on the mound in Toronto inspires a Sussex...
Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Mason Fluharty - By George, he made it to the major league mound. Mason Fluharty, Toronto Blue Jays...
Reading stadium signs and plaques and making...
Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Centrowitz connections - Matt Centrowitz won an Olympic gold medal in the 1,500 meters at the 2016...
Remembering people at their best and knowing where...
Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Interior decorator - I don’t have the talent to coordinate colors in a room or on my body. I’m not...
Time to name Cape’s wrestling room ‘Matty Dome’ to...
Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Rastling room - Wrestling rooms across America have a dens-to-dungeons quality with the aroma of...
Running down the past: 43-year-old record is in the...
Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Running for the record - I was the Cape track coach in 1982. On a Friday night in May at the Dover...
Players and coaches are on a first-name basis
Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Name game - Beacon Principal Kathleen Sheehan is in the West Chester University Sports Hall of Fame...
The spirit of coaches past can be found in the eyes...
Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Windows to the soul - Searching for departed grandparents, just look into the eyes of the...
Young guns in fighting chairs for state wrestling...
Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Smart coaches - Most wrestling coaches rock shirts and ties, perhaps a sports jacket, maybe even a...
Attention, damsels, all lacrosse games are canceled
Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Country Road - “Country road takes me home where my games are postponed. I'm a damsel and all my...
Autocorrect is the subliminal mind of artificial...
Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Magic Max - Anyone who has watched Cape senior Max Meadows wrestle in tournaments will understand...
Buffy and Barney – a story that circles back 25...
Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Male menopause - Alpha males and teammates beyond prime-time sports playing days share sentimental...
Funny valentines and inspirational stories of toughness
Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Funny Valentines - Kevin and Laurie Milnes have been married for 43 years. A t the Valentine’s Day...
Gymnasiums are longhouses of human interaction
Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Long house - A gym where games are played is a community version of the Quaker meeting house, just...
Sliding, scooting and going belly down: the world of...
Dave Frederick
4 months ago
“Boot Scoot Boogie” - A month ago, I was lying on a table waiting for a contizone injection in my...
Every picture tells a story, don’t it?
Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Track guy - Bob Paulen, 88, was on the Cape track Feb. 3, not expecting a high school quad...
Broad Street boomer stopping in Belltown celebrating...
Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Robber Barons - Take Black history away from this old Broad Street boomer and you are stealing part...
Digital bits and fragments are all over sportscape
Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Good Vibrations - With digital bits and fragments of information all over the sportscape, there is...
Family and friends surround the culture of sports
Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Arm bars -
Two young girls, arms locked, skipped past my camera during Saturday’s Cape at...
Taking care of fitness every day
Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Taking care of fitness - The first time I saw 27-year-old rookie Ichiro Suzuki was like every time...
A busman’s holiday taking my camera to a middle...
Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Rastling relatives - I am the grandfather of Mikey, who was a wrestler for Cape, and I’ve been...
Sports officials always have the last word
Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Clarify but don’t question - Coach Chris Mattioni, a 30-year veteran who’s always composed but...
Connecting the dot matrix of sports histories
Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Yell it and spell - My cellphone rang at the end of the Houston Texans’ victory over the Los...
The Sounds of Silence honored Sweetness Walter Payton
Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Sweet Silence - Jeff Pearlman wrote the definitive biography of the late Chicago Bears running back...
Patrick Donahue pins way to War on Shore title
Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Pins and tech falls - Wrestlers from 43 teams competed in 14 weight classes across eight mats over...
Seven hundred racers throw down over New Year’s...
Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Boardwalk racers - Tuesday, Dec. 31, the Seashore Striders welcomed 381 runners for the Race Into...
Your sports mom’s a proton, always positive in an...
Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Your mom’s a proton - Let’s split the atom of sports and only write about the positive aspects of...
A nomination for an award is its own reward minus...
Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Team of the Year - Two teams I covered this past calendar year are the Cape girls’ lacrosse and...
Legacy is just a Subaru; meet me at the tailgate
Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Tailgating - A metabolic frolic where pregame meal meets happy hour before a football game. Some...
Fred Shed: a comfort zone of coziness, come get...
Dave Frederick
6 months ago
The Fred Shed - The Fred Thomas gym has an old-school feel to it. A comfort zone of coziness, a...
Best way to determine a 100-meter time is to run it
Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Bits and bytes - There used to be information in printed newspapers called agate, which were...
Values skewed as athletics are burying academics
Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Awakenings - I was on the academic spectrum as a college student and athlete. I was as smart as I...
Go-getters and goal setters: 2,800 runners jump on it
Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Go-getters and goal setters - A candy cane sky at first light at the Rehoboth Boardwalk with an air...
Wimpy and Cheeseburger are part of local muppet matrix
Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Burger Kings - Opening day at the Fred Thomas gym, the Freds hosted the Georgetown Middle Golden...
Former UD coach KC Keeler heads to Temple
Dave Frederick
6 months ago
KC D3 - KC Keeler moved from Rowan to Delaware then Sam Houston State, and now he will be the head...
Longevity: Today was yesterday and yesterday is today
Dave Frederick
7 months ago
Longevity and loyalty - I am the last man standing – not to mention ambulating – in a lot of...
Pay-to-play sports are not about the price of eggs
Dave Frederick
7 months ago
Pay-to-play sports - There was a cartoon in the New Yorker 25 years ago of a guy jogging. He was...
I shot two deer at sundown in a fallow field
Dave Frederick
7 months ago
Doe-eyed - I shot two deer at sundown Tuesday afternoon – a doe and a menacing buck in rut intent...
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