People in Sports

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Runner is a two-time state champion, same event on...

Dave Frederick
1 hour ago
Two-time state champion - Junior McKenzie Winward of Newark Charter School is the two-time DII...

Champions compete without fear of failure

4 days 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 week 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 week 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
2 weeks 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

2 weeks 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...

3 weeks 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...

3 weeks 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
4 weeks 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
2 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
2 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
2 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
2 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
2 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
2 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
4 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
4 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
4 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
4 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
4 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
4 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
4 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
4 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 months ago
Doe-eyed - I shot two deer at sundown Tuesday afternoon – a doe and a menacing buck in rut intent...

Tunnel to Towers event brings out the best in people...

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Chattahoochie - Allen Jackson gets claimed by so many people as cousin in the 684 that I’ve started...

A slice of life sports offer improbable images and...

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Slice of life - There is a premise in psychology that if the mind sees something that is against...

Don’t lose your marbles on championship game day

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Championship Saturday - I woke up early on state championship Saturday, and I was in game-day mode...

Cape Region is a running mecca that goes back 50 years

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Meep meep - Cape kids have been running the roads of the greater Lewes area for 55 years, so it’s...

Kill the radio and ditch the AirPods

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Car rides - Kill the radio and ditch the AirPods; just tell sports stories. I met coach Dan...

Coach Dan Rigby interacts with Cape athletes at...

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Morgan's Message - Coach Kate Austin invited me to a Morgan's Message 45-minute assembly last week...

Runners dial up their inner beast at Sea Witch Half...

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Release inner beast - Lauren Pollock, 21, of Middletown, was the overall women’s winner at...

Inspirational stories from the back of the pack

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Better angels - Sometimes the best stories and most inspirational efforts in a cross country race...

Max Coveleski wins Tommy C 5K, saying ‘I hate running’

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Tommy C 5K Run - The 11th annual race was won by Max Coveleski, 34, nephew of the late Tom...

Connecting dots through sports supports Sussex culture

Dave Frederick
7 months ago
Can you not do it? Connecting people to each other in Sussex County has always been a way of life...