People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

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Athletes pursue their own passion, they cannot be...

Dave Frederick
1 day 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 days 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
1 week 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
1 week 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
2 weeks 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
2 weeks 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
3 weeks 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
3 weeks 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
4 weeks 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
1 month ago
Community connections - There is a starting point when a person plugs into the community,...

Designated hitter comes to the National League

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
How ya doin’? Got a cellphone call from Billy Lorah on Saturday afternoon. He and Ralph Karl were...

Playing dumb is way smarter than actually being dumb

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Gimme Shelter - The last thing the young lacrosse players wanted to hear after three months of...

Moments are fleeting but the magic endures

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Help me, Rona - We have reached the point in the pandemic where wearing a mask is a political...

Philly friend Mike Brown looks after Temple athletes...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Philly friend - (Written in 2018) Mike Brown, 59, a father of four and grandfather of eight, works...

Lorah and Karl don’t send thoughts and prayers, they...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Prayers and players - Some people send thoughts and prayers, while others send themselves. Billy...

Norman Poole, a lifetime hall of fame good guy

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Walking the planet - I asked a couple people who go deep with Seaford history if teacher/coach...

Joking relationships are enjoyed by close friends...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
The fear of funny - Humor is often a pressure-release valve, letting off steam from the...

Athletes find each other on tracks and boardwalks

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Athletic attraction - A public school track that is open to the public attracts people, especially...

Prophet on the porch wonders ‘What’s Going On?’

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Tribal elders - I have landed beyond the demographic as a lifelong teacher and writer. I...

The road just traveled muddles the pandemic path...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Hole in one - I knew something was wrong when an image of lawyer Bill Schab holding...

Focusing the frame inside the Big Picture

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Big Picture Man - I nicknamed my former Cape student Matt Gibson, class of 1997, Big Picture Man...

The rug you’re standing on gets yanked – do you...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Pulling the rug - Pets and throw rugs account for most unplanned orthopedic surgeries. College...

Chasing the political balls like a reluctant retriever

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Chasing the ball - Two dogs and 25 years ago on Christmas Eve, I visited Rick Townsend in Nassau to...

Reaching for the shooting stars in Seaside Delaware

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Reaching for the Stars - I have never done Formula One sportswriting and I’m fortunate that...

I’ll be back on the boards when the happy and...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Space Odyssey - In 2017, 9-year-old Bennett Brumbley made the decision to go back out on the race...

Ashby and Coverdale exude academic and athletic...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Airborne Ashby - Jack was a soccer guy at Cape, a dirty-work midfielder with relentless on-ball...

Puppies and pancakes of the pandemic

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Pancakes of the pandemic - I don’t need some perfect person hawking a self-evident diet book on the...

Growing older and getting slower in lower Delaware

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Slow down - Tim Bamforth sent me 5K results from just a few years after Don McLean “drove his Chevy...

Staying alive through the Cape Gazette archives

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Photos pop - Sometimes photos pop on Fredpop’s desktop. And that sends me back down the road of...

Five Guys Linemen for Life, all of stellar character

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Linemen for Life - A Five Guys file popped onto my Facebook timeline last week and I first...

Tina Turner Trophy: Simply the Best

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Simply the Best - A sportswriter from Philly living in Sussex County since the summer of 1975 would...

I believe in yesterday, but yesterday’s gone

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Seems like yesterday - But yesterday’s gone! I was cruising down Stockley Street passing Schoolvue...

Remembering coach Lou Nicoletti

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Happy birthday to Lou - (written Sept. 30, 2017) - There were no balloons and thankfully no singing...

The moon is down all over the town of Dewey Beach

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
The Moon is Down - Skyjack drone photos by TJ Redefer often show the sun coming up over Dewey Beach...

Masking and unmasking: depends on who is asking

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Halloween hockey - I was searching a database of eight “troglobytes” of digitized photos and up...

Bet your bottom dollar – the sun will come out...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Here Comes the Sun - I was too big in a seat too small in the Rehoboth Elementary School...

Pretty darn close to being interesting

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Social media distancing - Speaking of sports not being played, many of us have social media...

Out-of-school suspension but hope on the horizon

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Out-of-school suspension - DIAA announced that the spring sports season is suspended though May 15...

Coach Jim Alderman hangs tough as a cruiserweight...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Jimbo checks in - Got a call from former Cape football coach Jim Alderman March 22 to report he is...

Remembering people at their best reflects the best...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Crying on my keyboard - Burli Hopkins, 41, succumbed to addiction early morning March 18 at his...

I believe that we will win. Just let us play

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
“I believe that we will win.” The chant is a call-and- response interaction between two parties. It...

Beautiful world with beautiful people on Sesame...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Join the resistance - Senior Kevin Williams is driving hard, like a sprinter at the...

Hearn Heads popping up and facial recognition in...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Something happening here - And what it is ain’t exactly clear. Before the Cape versus Charter...

Running sports have the most state titles at Cape...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Spring track - Matt Lindell enters his 20th year coaching at some level of spring...

State tournament wrestling a wild world of emotional...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
A moving ceremony - As the national anthem began and the wrestling crowd rose to their...

Athletes read on the run and calculate without...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Overhead games - Pole vaulters are profoundly whack and unusually smart, often making calculated...

The space in between game days is where champions...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Long shot delivers - Woodbridge 195-pound wrestler Taeshaun Ford-Jackson was somewhere between a...

If you quit a team, the fans will forget you before...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Fair game - “But mom, it’s not fair.” “Life’s not fair, kid, get used to it.” Sports are often...

Senior Nights eventually evolve into Senior Citizen...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
One last Senior Night - Athletes get one Senior Night for each sport played, but coaches and...

Milford Central Academy is the heart of a connected...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Uncle Fredman - A Tuesday night boys’ basketball game between Cape and Milford at Milford Central...

Eagle Scout shines on the indoor track

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Fly Like an Eagle - Jake Mundok is an Eagle Scout, surfer and distance runner from Sussex Academy...

Young Tony Hazzard achieving and bringing others...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
TT and Tony - Perhaps it was 2010, a Cape JV football game, the waning minutes, Cape up by 30...

Cape community buzzing about girls’ basketball

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Slammed - I stopped by Villa Sorrento Feb. 1 after the last of three sporting events to pick up a...

The Drummonds: Milford’s father-and-son state champions

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
State champs - A hall of fame moment in the Milford gym ... I discovered what I did not know and...

Tough and tumbling Cape cheerleaders in the Big House

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Tumbling runs - Lost in the Thursday night Big House dysfunction junction dissonance was Cape’s...

Wrestlers have to learn and earn their way to...

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Learn it and earn it - Most athletes who wrestle are not four-time state champions. In fact...

‘Mattioni’s Men’ place second at Grapple at the Brook

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Grapple A-Go-Go - The Cape wrestling team had a good two-day tournament this past weekend that...

Men in black and giving back

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Men in Black - The undefeated Milford Academy Middle School boys’ basketball team hit the Central...

Fleeing the mat to avoid takedown is a judgment call

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Fleeing the mat - Carson Kammerer lost a 9-7 decision to Ryan McKelvey of Delaware Military Academy...

He’s got the whole world in his hands

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Eye of an artist - I don’t photograph sunsets, streetscapes, moonrises, wildlife, weddings...