People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

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

Dave Frederick
2 days 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 days 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
1 week 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
1 week 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
2 weeks 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
2 weeks 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
3 weeks 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
3 weeks 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
4 weeks ago
Equalization Title IX - A civil rights law passed in 1972 prohibits sex discrimination in any...

Sports is a visual handoff to a history of colorful...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Visual handoff - In the fall of 1978, Jay Maull quarterbacked a Cape football team coached by Jim...

Kids of coaches learn the game is about patience and...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Underwoods in the hood - Coaches’ kids are socialized like therapy dogs. They grow up around lots...

Cape campus teeming with athletes for spring sports

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Thundering herd immunity - Legends Stadium was teeming with sports action March 9, with the boys’...

Burton and Currie light up Lax World at Bethany...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Hometown hat trickers - The Bison of Bethany College lacrosse are 1-1 this early season, having...

Keep your headgear handy and be ready to get back...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
El smacko - I was an embedded Fred with photo cred working inside the state wrestling tournament...

Satchels and gym bags hold cameras and crackers

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Satchel days - Back in my day, which was last Sunday and 900 moons ago, we athletes carried...

Josiah Miller: A true student-athlete pleasantly...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Four sports an hour - Josiah Miller is a 6-foot-3, 275-pound Cape senior with brains and...

Einstein the Dirty Dog at Freeze the Day 5K

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Dirty dogging - A collie named Einstein was one of several canines at Sandhill Fields in Georgetown...

Everybody loves Tia Jarvis

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Circle Game - Coach Tim Bamforth is working with runner Tia Jarvis to determine if she is better...

Sweeney to Bunyan: Linemen for Life turned airline...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Undeclared majors - While checking the University of Maryland football roster I noticed...

Laci Dixon, Cape lacrosse goalie, will graduate early

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Meeting the moment - Laci Dixon is a Cape junior and wrestling manager who just told coach Chris...

Delaware State football kicks off spring season Feb. 20

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Hornets football - An email from Delaware State offensive coordinator Steven Azzanesi about spring...

Sports are peeking out and sneaking out

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Spring field hockey - Division I field hockey play was shut down last fall because of COVID...

Olivia Weir cartwheels all the way into Big 10

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Nine to Big Ten - As a 9-year-old, Olivia Weir cartwheeled across the finish line in a 5K in...

Athletes know athletes and respect performance...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Athletes know athletes - Socially distanced Cape cheerleaders had their own section of home...

Indoor track held outside in weather that’s not that...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Indoor/outdoors - An indoor track meet held outdoors Jan. 22 on Cape’s Legends Stadium track...

Some streamers are dreamers who forget to hit the...

Dave Frederick
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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 months 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 months 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
3 months 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
4 months 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
4 months 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
4 months 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
4 months 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
4 months ago
Buster and Nancy - Field hockey officials Buster and Nancy Neeman refereed...

Sky looked like swirling nun spirits seeking me for...

Dave Frederick
4 months 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
4 months 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
4 months 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
4 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
6 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
6 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
6 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
6 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
6 months ago
Spaghetti every Friday - I interviewed Bob Fletcher in 1983 about his book “...

Coaches often magnetize the marginalized

Dave Frederick
6 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
6 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
6 months ago
The Wright stuff - Took this photo of Kolbi Wright before a Cape football game in...