People in Sports

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Friday Night Lights at Cape brings out all the muppets

Dave Frederick
1 day ago
Healthy home games - Cape Henlopen rocks a spirited atmosphere at Friday night home football games...

Photos on the fly at Sandhill Fields cross country meet

Dave Frederick
5 days ago
I love the flower girls - It was Senior Day for Cape cross country at Sandhill Fields in Georgetown...

Third-party selfie with Awesome Izzy, my new...

Dave Frederick
1 week ago
Third-Party Selfie - I asked JV field hockey player Isabella Fuscellaro to join me during the...

Compassionate toughness – the leadership of a coach...

Dave Frederick
1 week ago
Street fight - Smyrna field hockey, under coach Loveita Moffitt, brings a fierce, no-back-down...

I’m a bonded Blue Hen, a member of the club

Dave Frederick
2 weeks ago
Blue Hen Club - I once asked former Delaware quarterback Scott Reihm if I was real Delaware. I have...

Darby Dog has left the yard and human friends are lost

Dave Frederick
2 weeks ago
Ring! Ring! “Fredman, is your dog lost?” “No, he knows where he is. Dog’s don’t get lost, they just...

Young men who inspire us at Crushin Cancer 5K

Dave Frederick
3 weeks ago
Ryan Ennis - I didn’t know I knew Ryan Ennis until I saw him Sunday at the Paradise Grill Crushin...

Clarke Brothers getting it done from abstract art to...

3 weeks ago
Clarke Brothers - Brandon and Tres Clarke are Cape graduates; their mom Renee Kenner was a Cape...

Dan the Photog Man grounded down and rubberized with...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Dan got plowed - Friday night, Nov. 14, 2014, at Sussex Tech for first round of playoffs. Cape...

Blended Morgan, Bolander families run the Cannonball...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Universities represented - The blended families of Morgans and Bolanders connected through the late...

Tracking athletes who ‘spit the hook’ is fair game

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Horse Power - “We’ll raise up our glasses against evil forces, singing, Whiskey for my men, and...

Slow and steady wins the race, blessed with a smile...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Blessed - Kathleen Gallagher, 63, passed me last Saturday at the Summer’s End 5K. She was running a...

Shoes bought 40 years ago have raced from...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Forty-year-old shoes - Jack Huxtable, 83, a Cornell graduate, had a career in the foreign service...

All team members should dress for state tournaments

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Dem da rules - I’m more than willing to declare a rule dumb if that is my belief but nevertheless...

Fans follow the football; the hardcore watch the...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Following the football - Herky Billings was a legendary offensive play caller because he was able...

Ducks and Red Wolves set to scrimmage Cape football

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Quack Attack - The Odessa Ducks are coming to Legends live at 5 Friday to scrimmage the Cape...

Most people run just because, not for a cause

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
“C’est la vie”- You never can tell. The Fire Fightin’ 5K Run/Walk in Rehoboth Sunday morning is one...

Football coaches at Sweetbriar are formidable and...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Apocalypse Now - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – don’t mess with their world. These roughneck...

Cape football battles Sussex Tech in full-collision...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Boys talking noise - The first full-contact football scrimmage of August preseason for high schools...

A world interconnected by sports and other stuff

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Interconnected sports world - Joe Franchella is a grandfather and football guy like me by way of...

Cape football launches into 2021 season

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Launch angle - Cape football under the direction of head coach J.D. Maull has...

Robert Mitchell a preseason all-MEAC lineman from NCCU

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Lineman for life - Robert Mitchell, out of Millsboro and Cape Henlopen, is now a preseason...

Tagging people in photos, but who is it?

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Playing tag - Last week I posted a Facebook album of a Cape hockey camp. One photo showed a...

The talent train keeps rolling like Old Man River

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Champions Stadium - The Cape campus is user-friendly with a fieldhouse separating two lighted turf...

Joanne Harrigan, inspirational and tough, overlaid...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
I started a joke - I saw the woman with the walking stick make a left turn behind the race pack...

Photos and stories endure, but can you tell them and...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Take a good look around! This is your hometown! - Zack Gelof showed up at the Millsboro...

Dress like a Bedouin and keep your camel close

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Pop roast - I had scheduled myself to photograph about six games of Eastern Shore girls’ lacrosse (...

Lineman for Lightning catches the cup

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Lineman for Lightning - John McMahon was a Philadelphia All-Catholic League lineman for Lasalle...

Sharing the roads at Sesame Street by the Sea

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Sharing the road - Lewes running races staged at Irish Eyes thanks to the graciousness of Charlene...

Joann Szczepkowski drives an Outback, but she’s...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Joann Szczepkowski - Runner Joann and I share the same year and day of birth. She recently asked me...

Coach Nic’s dog Hepburn carries on his love of...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Hepburn - Cross country and track coach Lou Nicoletti passed on April 19, 2020, at the age of 70...

Fish On! Get in the fighting chair or start telling...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Fish On - Trolling the blue waters of Baltimore Canyon, “fish on'' means game time –...

Babies carry my blue chair from Toddle and Topple

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Whack Pack - It’s no surprise if you read this column, now going on 40 years, that I cover...

Sands of time sifting through fingers of little girl...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Sand of Time - Childhood friends Katie Frederick and Alia Marshall pass the...

Kissed by a cop at the Father’s Day 5K

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Kissed by a cop - Kim Geyer is a fast friend from the running scene. She has been a Millersville,...

Friends share sports moments together

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
True friends - Last Saturday morning as the SoDel Cares 5K was winding down, a little girl...

Cape football sends three Gold players to 65th all...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Keep your distance - The 65th annual Blue-Gold All-Star Football Game is set for Friday night, June...

Basement Boys to Beach Boys, they get around

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Ahead of the game - I was a Rehoboth Beach Patrol rookie at age 30 with a wife and four kids, and a...

Summer is for strength, speed and nutrition

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Fish out of water - I’m a Cape person, but mostly a kid person, so June 1 I walked onto the...

Take it to the House of Spirits and remember them all

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
House of Spirits - Magic Mikey Fred played for a state championship in lacrosse Thursday night,...

Two Cape teams in lax finals; fans pay two times

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Double game-day face - The Cape girls’ and boys’ lacrosse programs each played state championship...

Track is a digital, data-driven sport in real time

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Bits of digital data - The state track meet generates two days’ worth of live data which has to be...

Is Mullet Run Street in Milford named after the fish...

4 months ago
Biting midges - Known locally as No See Ums. Their scientific name is ceratopogonidae. What are...

Sunday morning track clinic at Sesame Street by the...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Tim’s track clinic - Sunday morning sunrise to slow-down day, I am heading out the door...

Hoping for sports success doesn’t come at the...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Changing the locks - Gates and doors around schools and fields are locked most of the time...

Coastal Sussex is a mecca of running races; just hit...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Half in the bag - The 12th Seashore Striders Half Marathon, Relay and 5K run are in the books for...

Masks or no masks: What is going down in the world...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
No mask, don’t ask - Fans from afar looked at my posted game photos of the May 5 girls’ lacrosse...

Read option: If a coach you know writes a book, go...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Read option - I just read “More Than One Goal” by Cape boys’ lacrosse coach Mark D’...

Siblings score goals in Wednesday lacrosse games

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Sibling scorers - In lacrosse games played April 28, Lindsay D’Ambrogi and her older...

Ice cream and wind-driven spray at Dairy Queen 5K

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Rude is wrong - Fans are back in the stands and so are some boneheaded boys who sit in the...

Forty years on the beat I wear a credential around...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Big yellow taxi - “Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my name. But what’s confusing you...

Fields of dreams teeming with teams and fans in the...

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Thursday Night Lights - It all looked normal and idyllic on the Cape campus April 15. Sussex Tech...

Some of my best friends are dogs

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Billy the Beagle - I have friends from the running scene I wouldn’t otherwise know, from some as...

Showdowns about to go down in high school baseball

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Let’s play hardball - The Cape Henlopen, Sussex Central and Sussex Tech baseball teams are all...

Bryan Stevenson to play piano with Wynton Marsalis’...

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Honeysuckle Rose - Two years ago, Susan and I went to the Kimmel Center in downtown Philly to see...

I prefer Jim Palmer because he’s not John Kruk

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Palmer is my preference - All pizza is good. The one you like best is a matter of personal...

Crooked numbers dominating spring high school sports

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Crooked numbers - “Mercy, mercy me. Things ain’t like they used to be.” - Marvin Gaye. We have...

Sonja Friend-Uhl sets American record in 1,500...

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
A Friend in speed - Sonja Friend-Uhl is a 50-year-old masters runner I’ve known since she was a 15-...

Come see about me and JV

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Come See About Me - The Supremes’ song that rhymes with JV. So full disclosure: My granddaughter...

Hear about the dairy farmer who milked the clock?

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Equalization Title IX - A civil rights law passed in 1972 prohibits sex discrimination in any...