People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

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

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

Tunnel to Towers event brings out the best in people...

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Chattahoochie - Allen Jackson gets claimed by so many people as cousin in the 684 that I’ve started...

A slice of life sports offer improbable images and...

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Slice of life - There is a premise in psychology that if the mind sees something that is against...

Don’t lose your marbles on championship game day

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Championship Saturday - I woke up early on state championship Saturday, and I was in game-day mode...

Cape Region is a running mecca that goes back 50 years

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Meep meep - Cape kids have been running the roads of the greater Lewes area for 55 years, so it’s...

Kill the radio and ditch the AirPods

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Car rides - Kill the radio and ditch the AirPods; just tell sports stories. I met coach Dan...

Coach Dan Rigby interacts with Cape athletes at...

Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Morgan's Message - Coach Kate Austin invited me to a Morgan's Message 45-minute assembly last week...

Runners dial up their inner beast at Sea Witch Half...

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Release inner beast - Lauren Pollock, 21, of Middletown, was the overall women’s winner at...

Inspirational stories from the back of the pack

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Better angels - Sometimes the best stories and most inspirational efforts in a cross country race...

Max Coveleski wins Tommy C 5K, saying ‘I hate running’

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Tommy C 5K Run - The 11th annual race was won by Max Coveleski, 34, nephew of the late Tom...

Connecting dots through sports supports Sussex culture

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Can you not do it? Connecting people to each other in Sussex County has always been a way of life...

Dogfish to Darby Dash is like Great Dane to a teacup...

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Dogfish to Darby Dash - About 1,500 runners and walkers circled the town of Milton Sept. 29,...

Sports columns are quirky observations reflecting...

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Jumping the shark - Most coaches are cautious and don’t want to be bitten by arrogance or...

We are all cousins; the connections transcend time...

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Mormon melding - I have no clue as to the foundations of the Mormon religion or how it relates to...

Pete Rose has a statue in Cincinnati and Wall of...

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Dirt Bag - I see an image of Pete Rose sliding into home plate on his stomach obscured by more dirt...

Pale ale runners saunter around Milton for Dogfish...

Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Dogfish Dash - Running with friends is good for what ales you; other exercises pale by comparison...

Free and overpriced is how I roll through grandpa life

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Afterschool special - “Keep it on the down low or everybody will know.” – Teddy Thompson...

Linemen for Life move into the world always knowing...

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Old King Cole - It was the working ranch on Cave Neck Road rolling into Milton. I’m pretty sure...

Five-year-old Everleigh flies high for Vikings Pop...

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Therapy Freddogg - A few years ago, former student Mandie Manship was a substitute secretary at...

Goats and goalies travel in pairs, are better together

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Goats and goalies - Katie Kulhlman, a former Cape track star who is now running cross country at...

Sandhill Fields has a free-to-fly vibe

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Sandhill Fields - I see a gazebo and I know it's there as an open-air outdoor gathering place for...

Bottle & Cork race is a 40-year tradition of late...

11 months ago
Forty years and 40 minutes - Sharyn Slick, 77, a name not easily forgotten, with her husband Bob...

Game with giant goals and a big ol’ ball ends in...

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Kick ball - I can go hovering drone in my mind (some go to Carolina) looking down at a...

Running is No. 1 at Sesame Street by the Sea

Dave Frederick
11 months ago
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...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
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

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
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...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
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...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Sad Songs - “If you don’t know me by now you will never never know me.” – Harold Melvin and the...

Odie Davis, 62, is coaching girls’ basketball in...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
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...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Birthday 52 - Tuesday was the B-52 birthday celebration of Cape coach Mike Frederick, but out at...

Bulldogs Junior and Chunk roll past Dewey Beach...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Schmidt’s Malt Liquor bulldogs - Rescues Junior and Chunk are on the wagon rolling past Dewey Beach...

Perks Pacers inspire runners at Penn State College...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
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...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
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...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
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...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
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...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
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...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
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...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
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...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
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...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
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,...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
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...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
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...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Lean on me - Good hydrations bop bop. It’s no secret I have seen more runners finish races than...