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Coach Dan Rigby interacts with Cape athletes at...
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Release inner beast -
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Sandhill Fields - I see a gazebo and I know it's there as an open-air outdoor gathering place for...
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Game with giant goals and a big ol’ ball ends in...
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Kick ball -
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Running is No. 1 at Sesame Street by the Sea
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Running mecca - The No. 1 local sport here at Sesame Street by the Sea – when you factor in athlete...
Gifted bacon and melon balls make me a one-armed...
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Kitchen guy - I was waiting for runners to return to the finish line at Saturday morning’s Outlet...
Reflections on Rainbow Demolition, sports and politics
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Connections: politics and sports - Susan and I were in the stands about 1992 at Maryland as the...
False start for kids’ race is funny if you’re a 50...
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No-class clown - A bunch of youngsters lined up on Rehoboth Avenue at 7:50 a.m. Aug. 18 for the two...
Taylor the composite Cape kid leaves the pitch too...
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Sad Songs - “If you don’t know me by now you will never never know me.” – Harold Melvin and the...
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Flash forward - Coach George Pepper and I ran a resource room together back in 1980 under the...
There are no birthday breaks or cupcakes at Cape...
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Birthday 52 - Tuesday was the B-52 birthday celebration of Cape coach Mike Frederick, but out at...
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Perks Pacers inspire runners at Penn State College...
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Perks Pacers - Perks Pacers is a group that runs as a team at the Penn State College Day 5K in...
Runners are friendly and gracious, but racing is...
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Me too, me first - I was taking photos at the finish line at the Dam Mill 5K in Millsboro July 28...
Alia and Evan are a couple of kids connecting at...
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Friends Central - Evan Chubb is a rising third-grader, the third of four children of Katie and Josh...
Mr. Field Hockey is an inside joke working outside...
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Inside joke - “They call me Mr. Field Hockey.” That was started by the zen master of Cape girls’...
Earth stands still on Cape campus with news of...
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Full stop! - The earth spins at 1,000 miles per hour, yet there is no sense of speed. On Tuesday...
Billbow Dunning a rock-hard, humble hero, an athlete...
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Fast and rock-hard humble - William Billbow Dunning died July 13, felled by a heart attack or...
Runner’s high is crystal-clear sobriety for early...
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Dewey never sleeps - Dewey isn’t the town that never sleeps, but the town that sleeps in shifts. At...
Summer open fields and gyms are optional, but best...
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Home opener - There is a closing-time joke, “You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.”...
A string of four-letter words tying together stories...
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Four-letter words - The words are Cape, Emma, Anna and Maci. Three young athletes, all of whom...
Legendary field hockey coach Carolyn Ivins turns 85,...
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Get off my lawn - Cape field hockey coach Carolyn Ivins (1969-79) won the school's first state...
Sun’s out! Guns out! Jeff Jablon dazzles friends...
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Choo Choo Jablon - Jeff Jablon, 48, is the quintessential player to be named later. He is the guy...
Strokin’ aint no jokin’ – stop and drop if it gets...
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Lean on me - Good hydrations bop bop. It’s no secret I have seen more runners finish races than...
Sinking storylines like outriggers in a marlin...
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Goody two-shoemakers - Two women looked the part standing at the starting line of the SoDel Cares...
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Chicken Chase 5K reveals a free-ranging chicken who...
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Oversharing replaces active listening, best to tamp...
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Officials are atop the totem of controlling sports...
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Make my day today, same as yours
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The eternal present - Three hundred runners, mostly young guns from the Let Me Run clubs of Sussex...
Titles and awards can easily get lost in the...
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A goalie personality is no flinch, no fear, just...
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Coaches doing great things across the landscape of...
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