People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

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

Dave Frederick
7 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
7 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
7 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
7 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
7 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
7 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
8 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
8 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
8 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
8 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
8 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
8 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
8 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
8 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
8 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
9 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
9 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
9 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
9 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
9 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...

9 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
9 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
9 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
10 months 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
10 months 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
10 months 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
10 months 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
10 months 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
10 months 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
10 months 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
10 months 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
11 months 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
11 months 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
11 months 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
11 months 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
11 months 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
11 months 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
11 months 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
11 months 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...

Sinking storylines like outriggers in a marlin...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Goody two-shoemakers - Two women looked the part standing at the starting line of the SoDel Cares...

Relaxed laxer now a rising eighth-grader and a player

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Relaxed laxer - Summer sports camps proliferate here at Sesame Street by the Sea, and quite frankly...

Chicken Chase 5K reveals a free-ranging chicken who...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Algebraic equation - I covered the University of Delaware Chicken Chase 5K Saturday morning. It...

Beefalo Brigade and biodegradable biographies

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Beefalo Brigade - The King Cole Ranch had hybrid livestock. Back in the day, they were called...

Sharing struggles and successes is a Sunday...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Cabbage Patch Katie - I called her Cabbage Patch Katie when I had her in my Problems of Democracy...

Oversharing replaces active listening, best to tamp...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Oversharing - I recently jumped a paywall and read that today’s high school graduates are the first...

Sports are driven by instantaneous results, unlike...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Results driven - The medical system is overburdened; that’s why annoying active advocacy is the...

Officials are atop the totem of controlling sports...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Get off my lawn - Milford graciously agreed to host the semifinal girls’ lacrosse game between Cape...

Make my day today, same as yours

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
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...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Wrestlers and runners - The sports of wrestling, cross country and spring track have similar...

Future stars captured as faces along the fence

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Faces along the fence - I saw a face along the fence during the first half of the May 9 girls’...

A goalie personality is no flinch, no fear, just...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Goalie guitar - Mariner sixth-grade goalie Penelope Bohl goes through her pre-game routine getting...

Blue-collar guys run races while lacrosse teams run...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Outside scoop, inside corner - Joseph Goulet, 37, won the Seashore Classic Half Marathon May 4 in 1...

Coaches doing great things across the landscape of...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
The Candy Man can - Dan Candeloro is the head coach of girls’ tennis for the Caesar Rodney Riders...

Unsaturated races leave more room to put your foot...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Polyunsaturated - No human journalist type has covered, photographed and written about more road...

Sports landscape will change with a third middle...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Flux capacitor - Let’s go back to the future. The Frederick Thomas Middle School in Lewes will open...

Cape spring athletes and ambassadors hear Sean Locke...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Morgan’s Message - We sports muppets from Sesame Street by the Sea share the joy of comradeship and...

Cape muppets sing Al Green’s ‘Let’s Stay Together’

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Not a fan - I am the guy who has never left high school sports since I walked into freshman...