People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

Email Fredman at fredman@capegazette.com

If you bash a local Muppet, the matrix comes back to...

6 months ago
Muppet Matrix - “Muppets don’t bash other muppets,” that is the code at Sesame Street by the Sea...

Jungle Jim’s more tame than the Sports Complex that...

7 months ago
Jungle Jim’s - Do you remember the giant water slide at Jungle Jim’s called The Rampage? That thing...

Savannah Bananas run trophy to Lewes Beach for a bay...

Dave Frederick
7 months ago
Savannah Bananas - I made a joke about the podium being purchased from the Laurel Flea Market...

Slippery when wet: A sports life connected by song...

Dave Frederick
7 months ago
Vanilla Fudge - A slippery-when-wet Rehoboth Boardwalk with Sunday morning drizzle welcomed 353...

Athletes in action powered by play, not slowed by...

Dave Frederick
7 months ago
Mostly cloudy - I cover the sports of field hockey and girls’ lacrosse, both competitions governed...

Character is the essence of the athlete revealed in...

7 months ago
Championship connections - I took a photo of the Clampitts after graduation and didn’t drop one...

Contagious celebrations in a neurodiverse universe

7 months ago
Team Reese - Reese Cathcart is a Mariner sixth-grader who plays field hockey and lacrosse. The 18th...

The Sussex Guide: Tim Holton runs tethered to Joe...

7 months ago
Sussex Guide - Tim Holton is, among other things, a transplant to Sussex County from Brooklyn, N.Y...

Moronic moments: We came to get down so jump around

Dave Frederick
7 months ago
Moronic Moment - "Watch out, moron!” “No, you da Moron!” “Life is a highway. I wanna ride it all...

We are the champions, my friends; track athletes...

8 months ago
Two guys - There is no more athletic event on the track than the 110-meter high hurdles. It...

Runner is a two-time state champion, same event on...

Dave Frederick
8 months ago
Two-time state champion - Junior McKenzie Winward of Newark Charter School is the two-time DII...

Champions compete without fear of failure

8 months ago
Champions Stadium - Step on the track or inside the lines in any sport and you are a champion with...

State track championships are a two-day lesson in...

8 months ago
Security blanket - The two-day divisional track championships held May 9-10 at Dover High School...

Keep your shirt on, just change colors

8 months ago
Polashirt - It’s a Philly pronunciation from my childhood – short sleeves, no collar, usually with...

‘Smile for the camera’ not what finishing runners...

Dave Frederick
8 months ago
Smile on request - I don’t smile and I don’t take requests. But that's just me. Jackie Rams, a...

You can’t go home again, but home is where the heart is

8 months ago
Home is where the heart is - “You Can’t Go Home Again” is a novel by Thomas Wolfe that was...

Ice bag becomes swag for injured freshman Emmilyn...

8 months ago
Dislocated and mislocated - Emmilyn Swope has an effervescent personality. She is a freshman two-...

Cape’s three middle schools closing out year with 45...

9 months ago
Blood in the game - “I stand accused of the things I’ve said.” - BB King. When Cape had two middle...

Cape ballers from 50 years ago receive Hall of Fame...

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Flashback 50 - The 1975 Cape state championship boys’ basketball team of coach Ralph Baird and...

Walk forcibly and carry a short stick; linemen for...

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Linemen with long poles - Fred Thomas long pole defensemen Colin Callaway got his chance to clear...

Runners ride the wind around the bend

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Ride the wind - “C’mon on the rising wind, we’re going up around the bend.” - John Fogarty, 1970...

Lawyer Bill Schab is a pro bono girls’ lacrosse...

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Schab and Stahl - Sounds like a law firm, not a lacrosse coach and his granddaughters. Lawyer Bill...

Lizzie and Jamie witness Ovechkin’s record-breaking...

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
The question, “Where you at?” is grammatically incorrect but succinct and digitally friendly. High...

Mason on the mound in Toronto inspires a Sussex...

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Mason Fluharty - By George, he made it to the major league mound. Mason Fluharty, Toronto Blue Jays...

Reading stadium signs and plaques and making...

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Centrowitz connections - Matt Centrowitz won an Olympic gold medal in the 1,500 meters at the 2016...

Remembering people at their best and knowing where...

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Interior decorator - I don’t have the talent to coordinate colors in a room or on my body. I’m not...

Time to name Cape’s wrestling room ‘Matty Dome’ to...

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Rastling room - Wrestling rooms across America have a dens-to-dungeons quality with the aroma of...

Running down the past: 43-year-old record is in the...

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Running for the record - I was the Cape track coach in 1982. On a Friday night in May at the Dover...

Players and coaches are on a first-name basis

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Name game - Beacon Principal Kathleen Sheehan is in the West Chester University Sports Hall of Fame...

The spirit of coaches past can be found in the eyes...

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Windows to the soul - Searching for departed grandparents, just look into the eyes of the...

Young guns in fighting chairs for state wrestling...

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Smart coaches - Most wrestling coaches rock shirts and ties, perhaps a sports jacket, maybe even a...

Attention, damsels, all lacrosse games are canceled

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Country Road - “Country road takes me home where my games are postponed. I'm a damsel and all my...

Autocorrect is the subliminal mind of artificial...

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Magic Max - Anyone who has watched Cape senior Max Meadows wrestle in tournaments will understand...

Buffy and Barney – a story that circles back 25...

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Male menopause - Alpha males and teammates beyond prime-time sports playing days share sentimental...

Funny valentines and inspirational stories of toughness

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Funny Valentines - Kevin and Laurie Milnes have been married for 43 years. A t the Valentine’s Day...

Gymnasiums are longhouses of human interaction

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Long house - A gym where games are played is a community version of the Quaker meeting house, just...

Sliding, scooting and going belly down: the world of...

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
“Boot Scoot Boogie” - A month ago, I was lying on a table waiting for a contizone injection in my...

Every picture tells a story, don’t it?

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Track guy - Bob Paulen, 88, was on the Cape track Feb. 3, not expecting a high school quad...

Broad Street boomer stopping in Belltown celebrating...

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Robber Barons - Take Black history away from this old Broad Street boomer and you are stealing part...

Digital bits and fragments are all over sportscape

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Good Vibrations - With digital bits and fragments of information all over the sportscape, there is...

Family and friends surround the culture of sports

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Arm bars - Two young girls, arms locked, skipped past my camera during Saturday’s Cape at...

Taking care of fitness every day

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Taking care of fitness - The first time I saw 27-year-old rookie Ichiro Suzuki was like every time...

A busman’s holiday taking my camera to a middle...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Rastling relatives - I am the grandfather of Mikey, who was a wrestler for Cape, and I’ve been...

Sports officials always have the last word

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Clarify but don’t question - Coach Chris Mattioni, a 30-year veteran who’s always composed but...

Connecting the dot matrix of sports histories

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Yell it and spell - My cellphone rang at the end of the Houston Texans’ victory over the Los...

The Sounds of Silence honored Sweetness Walter Payton

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Sweet Silence - Jeff Pearlman wrote the definitive biography of the late Chicago Bears running back...

Patrick Donahue pins way to War on Shore title

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Pins and tech falls - Wrestlers from 43 teams competed in 14 weight classes across eight mats over...

Seven hundred racers throw down over New Year’s...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Boardwalk racers - Tuesday, Dec. 31, the Seashore Striders welcomed 381 runners for the Race Into...

Your sports mom’s a proton, always positive in an...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Your mom’s a proton - Let’s split the atom of sports and only write about the positive aspects of...

A nomination for an award is its own reward minus...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Team of the Year - Two teams I covered this past calendar year are the Cape girls’ lacrosse and...

Legacy is just a Subaru; meet me at the tailgate

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Tailgating - A metabolic frolic where pregame meal meets happy hour before a football game. Some...

Fred Shed: a comfort zone of coziness, come get...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
The Fred Shed - The Fred Thomas gym has an old-school feel to it. A comfort zone of coziness, a...

Best way to determine a 100-meter time is to run it

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Bits and bytes - There used to be information in printed newspapers called agate, which were...

Values skewed as athletics are burying academics

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Awakenings - I was on the academic spectrum as a college student and athlete. I was as smart as I...

Go-getters and goal setters: 2,800 runners jump on it

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Go-getters and goal setters - A candy cane sky at first light at the Rehoboth Boardwalk with an air...

Wimpy and Cheeseburger are part of local muppet matrix

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Burger Kings - Opening day at the Fred Thomas gym, the Freds hosted the Georgetown Middle Golden...

Former UD coach KC Keeler heads to Temple

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
KC D3 - KC Keeler moved from Rowan to Delaware then Sam Houston State, and now he will be the head...

Longevity: Today was yesterday and yesterday is today

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Longevity and loyalty - I am the last man standing – not to mention ambulating – in a lot of...

Pay-to-play sports are not about the price of eggs

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Pay-to-play sports - There was a cartoon in the New Yorker 25 years ago of a guy jogging. He was...

I shot two deer at sundown in a fallow field

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Doe-eyed - I shot two deer at sundown Tuesday afternoon – a doe and a menacing buck in rut intent...