People in Sports

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Dave Truitt of Lewes honored with his own Blue Rocks...

Dave Frederick
12 hours ago
Quiet and classy - A round corner table at the Rehoboth Beach Country Club, the Rehoboth Bay as a...

Best Buddies 5K puts the perspective on friendship

Dave Frederick
3 days ago
Best Buddies - Making new buddies at the Best Buddies 5K held Aug. 12 at Dewey Beach Lions Club...

The bond is unbroken between coaches Maull and Glenn

Dave Frederick
1 week ago
Relentlessness - Cape football coach JD Maull spent the week at Coastal Carolina with his Cape...

Harry K Foundation feeds hungry kids of Delaware

Dave Frederick
1 week ago
Harry K Foundation and hungry kids - I’ve seen high school kids miss lunch due to an emergency...

Young athletes at old school keep community connected

Dave Frederick
2 weeks ago
Young guy and old school - My old high school, Bishop Egan, and Cape, where I taught for 29 years,...

Robin Adair steps off as Tower Hill’s head coach of...

Dave Frederick
2 weeks ago
Robin retires - Coach Robin Adair has retired as head coach of field hockey at Tower Hill School...

Legendary Lefties a local sports legacy

Dave Frederick
3 weeks ago
Leftys - This priceless photo shows Johnny Morris and Chris Short (Lewes High left-handed hurlers)...

Dolphins and Democrats: Sometimes a shirt is just a...

Dave Frederick
3 weeks ago
Dolphins and Democrats - I attended my first indoor barbecue July 21 to celebrate Bill Collick’s...

Fall sports practices begin Aug. 15; it’s time to...

Dave Frederick
4 weeks ago
Fall sports - The first practice for high school fall sports is Wednesday, Aug. 15. Middle school...

Mind over matter in sports: If you don’t mind, it...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Mind over matter - Trained and conditioned athletes who practice outside can compete in all kinds...

Walking the fast track to low impact is not so easy

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Walk like a conniption - Not too many years ago, I walked 100 miles per month for five straight...

Baron Vincent, Cape heavyweight wrestler, remembered...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
The Closer - Baron Vincent was a Cape heavyweight wrestler who started all four years of high...

Patriotism displayed by flags and colors but not...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Thin Blue Line - Melissa Clemons ran the July 4 Red, White & Blue 5K at Rehoboth Beach Country...

Every runner has a goal to meet and a story to tell

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Small-town romance - Eric , 23, and Lauren Westog, 22, are from the same town, Dacula, Ga., and...

Pretty is easy, but a beautiful soul is precious

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Beautiful girls, beautiful people - There were no male runners among the field of 200 at the...

Sports management requires organization, flexibility...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Sports management - Oscar Madison was the messy and disorganized sportswriter in the play “The Odd...

Two lunch ladies named Bill at Father’s Day 5K

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Lunch Lady Land - Young punk comedian Adam Sandle r released his song “Lunch Lady Land” back in...

The Tooth Fairy’s rate of exchange has gone up over...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Jackson Yngve - Just 6 years old, Jackson ran a 5K on Father’s Day with his dad Kurt . Jackson...

The Zen Master inducted into Del. Lacrosse...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
A moment of Zen - The Zen Master of Cape girls’ lacrosse, the creator of concentric circles of...

Some have jerseys to wear at Blue-Gold 5K, others do...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
New jersey or no jersey - My son Jack was a first-team All-Henlopen Conference end on both sides of...

I’m the guy who knows the most people who don’t know...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Coming of age - My mantra out in the wilds of the Delaware sports landscape is “I’m the guy who...

Umpire Tom Disharoon is ripped and fit with a tight...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Umpire Tom Disharoon is a ripped, fit, in-charge umpire, and he don't play. He was all over the 10-...

I knew an ump and his name was Blue, and he’s a good...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Home plate ump - “I knew an old ump and his name was Blue, bet ya five dollars he’s a good ump too...

Lee Masser runs his own race at his own pace

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Masser montage - The 25th annual Dr. Lee Masser 5-miler at Cape May 27 saw a welcoming party of...

Laxer Sadie Kauffman scores goals while looking for...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Partisan parents - Chairs rimmed the pitch at Hudson Fields May 22 for the U13 and U15 championship...

Good goalies all over local girls’ lacrosse fields

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Goalie girls - Cape freshman lacrosse goalie Vivian Lynn got into the varsity lacrosse game late...

Loads of talent on display during middle school...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Take me to your feeder - A large, enthusiastic Cape crowd showed up to Legends Stadium under the...

‘Come get these memories’ is the theme of summer...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Coach Fitzgerald - The T-shirts were everywhere: “In Memory of Huriah Thomas Fitzgerald III. 1946-...

Griffin Kammerer awarded prestigious Fulbright...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Fulbright to new heights - Griffin Kammerer, a soccer goalie and baseball pitcher at Cape who then...

Local sports scene like a giant jellyfish propelled...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Odd as a cod - A Run for Recovery 5K on Saturday followed by a Revelation Beer on the Run 4-miler...

Snapchat – take a photo, then talk about it

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Might as Well Jump - I know the Van Halen song, but I don’t know why. I do know that I process a...

Tall versus Short Lacrosse and micro wrestling at...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Ten Year Tradition - The Zen Master P.J. Kesmodel started the Cape girls’ lacrosse...

Here I am stuck in the middle after peaking in...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Coach Kenny - I have been a mentor and friend to Kenny Riedel since he first got lost in the...

Barrett and Coveleski inducted into Delaware Afro...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Memory bank - I don’t know exactly what “Modern Maturity Center” means, but anytime I’ve been there...

Athletes and artists and nice stories from out of...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Athlete and artist - “She’s got everything she needs. She’s an artist. She don’t look back. She can...

14 million people run at least one race a year

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Big time little races - The Tommy 10K and Daffodil Dash 5K attracted 53 runners for the 5K and...

Friends along the fence are quick to smile just for...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Family on the fence - “I can tell it, but I can’t sell it,” is my silent message to myself for...

Masters coverage never mentions money or memberships

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Antiques Roadshow - You may clean your grandfather's cuckoo clock, take it to an appraiser, then...

Best and Burton flash highlights on a bitterly...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
What UPS man - Freshman Gabe Best has been hearing his own drummer since arriving at Cape from...

Wahoowa – Young and Rambo are excelling at Virginia

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Young and relentless - “Dateline Richmond, Va. The No. 20 Virginia men’s track and field team...

Golden Knights light up track on a gray day along...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
A clear gray day - Tuesday afternoon, March 27, was a cold, gray day along Patriots Way in...

Tiara Duffy’s GPA is higher than her BA, but she’s...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Sweet Tea - Tiara Duffy wanted to go play softball at the University of Tennessee coming out of...

Cats Unlimited was satire until someone took it...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Cats Unlimited - A couple of decades ago, artist John Gardoski and I collaborated on a satire piece...

Beware of Bad News Bichons, Ludicrous Labs and Clamp...

4 months ago
Happy trails - Cindi Dieterle walked into the blue chair orbit after a five-mile walk on the...

Girl power unleashed: Title X needed so boys can...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Title X - Enough already, girls, you win! I go back to the days before Title IX and equalization of...

Do you feel lucky? Well, do you, Leprechaun?

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Hit the roads running - The sixth annual Lucky Leprechaun 5K blasted off at brunch time March 11 in...

‘The students’ lives are in my hands’

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Head on a swivel - I am always scouting out stories. It comes from writing a column for the last 36...

Derek delivers like Domino’s - a hall of fame...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Derek delivers like Domino’s - Derek Savage, the Doctor of Dunk when he played for Cape, will be...

Fans and Fatheads ready for state tournament...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Chasing the dream - The 2018 DIAA basketball tournaments have launched into the second round, where...

Cape community makes wrestling tournament a success

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Double Downers - My mentor in the sports media world, Dick Dougherty of the Bucks County Courier...