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Some streamers are dreamers who forget to hit the...
Dave Frederick
3 days ago
You there? - The answer to that texted question is always, yes, I am here; otherwise, I would have...
Old-school basketball and community connections
Dave Frederick
6 days ago
Who rocks the house? - J-Roc rocks the house. Ja’Vaughn Burton is Eastern Basketball League early...
Tail over teakettle while keeping pace with fast...
Dave Frederick
1 week ago
Tail over teakettle -
Cape’s
Curtis Purnell
(2018) returns a kickoff on a Friday...
Winter sports contests begin with one fan per...
Dave Frederick
1 week ago
Side door -
I’m about to wade into the hot tub of indoor sports coverage. I take photos and...
Pointed moment: 40 years ago, student Richard...
Dave Frederick
2 weeks ago
Mainstreamed man - Most days are yesterday to me. I am in high school with my students, and before...
Cape sports culture changes as home prices zoom into...
Dave Frederick
2 weeks ago
An all-time offensive line -
2014-15:
Tyre Maull, Julius Tyler, Devin Miller, Brandon...
Steve Snell was Cape’s Golden Richards in 1986
Dave Frederick
3 weeks ago
Golden Richards - Steve Snell was the Golden Richards (Cowboys, Bears, Broncos) of Cape football,...
Wily Coyote quarterbacks at their best under pressure
Dave Frederick
3 weeks ago
Wily Coyotes -
The old guys playing quarterback lit it up early Christmas weekend in the...
White heat runners and black heat hurlers
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
White heat - On a sun-drenched day in the summer of 2007, two blond white guys ran a barefoot...
Central casting coaches are a cadre of homegrown...
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Central casting - If your ball cap is not on the last notch, you are probably not on the Sussex...
Winter track at Cape a 50-year tradition
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Winter track -
There is a tradition of winter/indoor track at Cape going back 50 years and...
Dawned on me late in the day – sports is irony in...
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Senior citizens - The senior class of Cape field hockey players includes just six athletes: Julie...
Straight-jacketed in a goose-down vest
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Busman’s holiday - The term alludes to a bus driver who spends his day off taking a long bus ride,...
Buster and Nancy Neeman, two good sides with a field...
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Buster and Nancy -
Field hockey officials
Buster
and
Nancy Neeman
refereed...
Sky looked like swirling nun spirits seeking me for...
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Stormy Monday - It was late for me, showing up 30 minutes early for the 4:30 p.m. Henlopen...
Coach Matt Lindell, the sock puppet of Cape cross...
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Screensocked - I was talking with veteran professional journalists Andy Walter and Marc Clery of...
Turkey bowls and trots and gobbles are suspended...
Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Turkey Bowls - The Coolspring tackle football Thanksgiving Day morning Turkey Bowl game ran...
Bill Jackson, a Philly to Lewes sports guy, passes...
Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Swoosh! Swoosh! Big-time sports friend of mine Bill Jackson, a Philly/Lewes guy like me, passed...
Emily Uffelman comes back from Lyme to run cross...
Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Lyme disease -
Shouting out the word “lime” evokes sensory memories of Frank's soda or the...
Jack McPike, the handsome Cape quarterback from 2010...
Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Quarterback Jack - Jack McPike, the handsome Cape quarterback and basketball player and affable...
Trust and Respect runs deep through the sports...
Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Trust -
I found out the news five minutes before I received a voicemail that simply said, “...
Race between the raw bar and the brewing company
Dave Frederick
2 months ago
SoDel Cares 5K and Mile Walk - It was a beautiful socially distanced morning for an in-person race...
Postcard-perfect race: Let the images do the talking
Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Patriot Games - Running a 5K around the perimeter of the Cape campus during a pandemic is on the...
‘Everybody is a Trophy’ wins the creativity prize
Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Theme park - The Cape hockey team showed up for Halloween practice at Champions Stadium Oct. 30 and...
Picture postcard perfect cross country at Polytech
Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Postcard perfect - The cross country meet at Polytech High School Oct. 28 in Woodside was run on a...
Cape hockey rolling from harvest toward hunter’s moon
Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Hockey by quarters - A season where the clock has gone from two 30-minute halves to four 15-minute...
Lose with dignity, win with zoom class
Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Emotionally spent -
The weather report is brought to you by Calzones and AutoZone. October...
Social distance running and thundering herd immunity
Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Thundering herd - Social distance running shrouded by fall foliage, the bigger high school cross...
Cape is a community of athletes and artists
Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Artistry and athletics - Remember the dreaded game of Pictionary? It’s weird, I have a type of...
Say hello and act like you know the players
Dave Frederick
3 months ago
New kid on the block - At cross country practice, I called out “Hey, Andrew!” He is sophomore...
Wild wild nights when the green was grass, three...
Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Wild Wild Nights - Four score, five years and three high schools ago, Bill Collick and I were new...
Mayor Al Stango and the Lewes Marathon
Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Spaghetti every Friday -
I interviewed
Bob Fletcher
in 1983 about his book “...
Coaches often magnetize the marginalized
Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Coach in the building -
Let’s just go back through 50 years of Cape high school sports and...
Sports fans: Everybody’s watching everybody else
Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Lumbering along -
Sunday was a long day’s journey into the night for Fruity Fred Pop. I’d...
Hand over the heart and quiet reverence always shows...
Dave Frederick
4 months ago
The Wright stuff -
Took this photo of
Kolbi Wright
before a Cape football game in...
Seven on Seven lacrosse full speed on half field
Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Seven on seven -
I was at DE Turf Sunday night taking photos of a half-field, seven-on-...
Local muppets and families bonded for a lifetime...
Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Diamond in the rough - Point to point across the diamond from home plate to straight-away center, I...
Sunday morning coming down at Champions Stadium
Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Masking the problem - “How are you little bandits doing?” On Sunday morning, I cruised around the...
Last-word syndrome dominates discourse on social media
Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Outworked - It is easy to outwork people in the sports arena, from playing to coaching to being a...
Lee ‘Doc’ Masser dies at 84, closing chapter of an...
Dave Frederick
4 months ago
I’m about half - “How are you feeling?” “I’m about half.” Not sure what that expression means. It’s...
Legendary sports figures Thompson and Seaver pass away
Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Young Tracy - Tracy Jones Jr. shared a photo of himself with legendary Georgetown University...
Watermel Run 5K in Laurel showcases a downstate...
Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Sisterhood -
My day at the Watermel Run 5K Aug. 30 began at 7 a.m. in Laurel at Janosik...
“You don’t cut nobody, you ain’t no doctor”
Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Zing go the strings -
A Cape football lineman in 1987 grabbed the back of his leg before...
Second checker! Muppet Mike Toohey leaves the...
Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Second checker! Each and every time I saw Mike Toohey over the last 35 years, I’d say, “Second...
Money is its own reward; for some it beats recognition
Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Speeding Belltown Bullet - This Bullet's name was Kevin, not to be confused with Kyle. There are a...
The difference between a milestone and a millstone...
Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Moving through Milestones - Big Mike Donovan, a 6-foot-8 former Marine and a bit of a wild child,...
Fosters and field hockey and tumbling cheerleaders
Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Four Paws and Southern Draw - Cape field hockey coach Kate Windett Austin is a Grass Roots Rescue...
Mishearing is a step away from misspeaking and...
Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Nikita Khrushchev - Tampa Bay Lightning winger Nikita Khrushchev was on a breakaway but was stoned...
Sesame Street by the Sea featuring buckets of muppets
Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Cape is a concept and a place - I met Cape baseball coach Ben Evick outside the fence at Champions...
Athletes pursue their own passion, they cannot be...
Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Passion to Play - The 2019 girls’ lacrosse season began practice missing the Killer Vs, Vienna...
Ricky Santos and Chip Kelly lit it up at Delaware...
Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Hey Ricky! “Oh Ricky, you’re so fine, you’re so fine, you blow my mind, Hey Ricky, hey Ricky. ” –...
Academics balanced by sports is a false equivalence
Dave Frederick
5 months ago
False equivalencies - There are no physical requirements to earn a seat in an honors or Advanced...
Cape’s wrestling managers worth their weight in gold
Dave Frederick
6 months ago
High school cool - I have much respect for team managers. I have always been that guy since I was a...
Big Train Trugman retires from Amtrak to Lewes
Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Trugman’s Train Trip - Neil Trugman, the chief investigating officer for Amtrak, retires to Lewes...
Coach Cutty rocks the bald head look; jokes ...
Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Pandemic got me - Coach Gilbert “Cutty” Maull goes back to the Cape days when Bill Muehleisen...
Coach Jim Alderman passes away in Florida at age 77
Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Coach Alderman - In late summer 1976, Rehoboth Beach lifeguards Bill Collick and Fredman had been...
Alpha dogs don’t bite; Alderman players say ‘Thank...
Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Alpha dogs don’t bite - A symmetry of sadness I want to share. My brother Tom died Nov. 28. His...
Footprints in the sand: Remembering Nate at his best
Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Footprints in the sand - “ Nathan Bates Carnevale, 27, of Rehoboth Beach took his own life on the...
I’ve read more refrigerator doors than books
Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Community connections -
There is a starting point when a person plugs into the community,...
Designated hitter comes to the National League
Dave Frederick
6 months ago
How ya doin’? Got a cellphone call from Billy Lorah on Saturday afternoon. He and Ralph Karl were...
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