People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

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Run for Recovery and Revelation and beer

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Run for Recovery and Revelation and beer - Two races over two days, I am there taking a couple...

All winning streaks must come to an end eventually

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Tear-stained eyes - The Beacon track girls’ win streak was stopped at 73 May 2, as they lost to...

Family and friends turn out for Tommy 10K and...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Uncle Tommy - There were nephews and nieces all running away from the Lewes Ferry terminal April 29...

Holly Wilson Smith runs a 3:10 marathon gliding and...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Ain’t that tough enough? - Runner Holly Wilson Smith is gracious and loquacious, smiles at the...

Best Buddies run together over a lifetime

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Best Buddies - Grown men latch onto their buddies at an early age and never let them go. “I got...

A sports day for half of the Patriots

8 years ago
Gronk and Spicey - Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski opened the door to a Sean Spicer press...

Distance running and offshore fishing require...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Boston Marathon - Grand Mom Rose: “Relating to the Boston Marathon because you used to be a runner...

Frozen moments in sports only get more vivid over time

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Capturing moments - The save and the shot. In the final minutes of a Cape JV lacrosse game at...

A gathering of Gooches at Temple sports complex

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Family Ties - I got the lead column photo of the week after Temple’s 13-11 win over Villanova April...

Ben Ashby jumps and runs back to the future

8 years ago
Déjà vu all over again - It was fate that put me in a blue field chair at the end of the long jump...

Keep on dancing and a-prancing, making sports fun

8 years ago
Keep on dancing - I’ve photographed 10 Temple University women’s lacrosse games this season and...

Keep on running and don’t look back

8 years ago
The fast blind pass - The Beacon track girls, winners of 67 straight meets under coaches Gilbert...

True sportsmen savor victory but share the pain

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Happy and humble - A true sportsman savors the victory, and feels the pain and disappointment of...

Johnny comes marching home to Hall of Fame

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Break me, shake me - Johnny Coveleski, the athlete/coach also known as Gino, made the 2017 Delaware...

Grown men have buddies for life, it’s what they do

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Hey buddy buddy - Grown men have buddies for life, and it’s pretty funny when you hear stories...

Dr. Dave Robinson walks 15 feet and that is big news

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Tracks of my happy tears - Down at Elite Physical Therapy on the Boardwalk, Dr. Dave Robinson is...

Duke’s Lucas Kennard a freakishly fascinating...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Lucas Kennard - I’ve been a closeted Duke fan for a long time, and I don’t understand why. I’d be...

Walk-on and walk-off, Tiara Duffy delivers game...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Walk-on walk-off - Junior Tiara Duffy, a South Carolina walk-on, had a walk-off two-run single in...

‘The ceiling is the roof,’ Jordan gaffe and laugh...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
The ceiling is the roof - Michael Jordan was selling something at halftime of the Duke at North...

Spring sports roar in like a wet lion

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Hunker down - A weather front came through the Cape sports complex March 1 just as all sports teams...

Big House rocks for Henlopen Conference showdown

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Free agent fans - A Cape Big House not fully packed but plenty crowded whooped and hollered Feb. 24...

‘Bragging Bad,’ a story of academic airballs and...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Sitting on stories - Remembering history experienced down to the details is something I’m good at...

Running clock spins both ways, the ups and downs of...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Two-faced running clock - Cape boys’ basketball, who lost by 16 at Smyrna Feb. 15, dismantled...

Warrior girls sustaining ACL injuries at eight times...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Warrior Girls - I read the book “Warrior Girls” by Michael Sokolove in 2009, when it was first...

Hearts will be broken at dual-meet championships

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Goodnight, sweetheart - The state dual-meet championships set for Tuesday Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day...

Micah mistakes me for Colonel Sanders, the...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Micah and Mike - I was visiting with longtime friend Cliffone Howell on the bleachers front row...

Slams and swats, some fans come loose

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Coming loose - Dec. 28, 2007, the Bay Ball Classic at Cape’s Little Big House, a game that featured...

Dave Robinson returns home with a smile on his face

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Homecoming - Dr. Dave Robinson, former school superintendent at Caesar Rodney and Cape, and a...

Cape girls’ swim team 62-1 since 2012

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Splash down - Swimmers are like track athletes, because they compete in front of small crowds of...

Cape secretary Amy Gooding has sports stories to tell

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Amy Gooding - Cape High School’s front desk secretary Amy is married to Chuck, and their daughter...

Derek and Derrick: Two Cape guys serving the community

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Derek and Derrick - Derek Savage and Derrick Quillen, two Cape athletes past and a pair of good...

The circle is unbroken as players save the...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
What’s the 411? - Gramps at a game is capable of getting the most basic elements wrong like, “Who...

The upside-down wait until the pole snaps back to...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Wahoo! - Sam Young, former Cape state champion pole vaulter and soccer player, recently transferred...

Wawa to Walmart - highway to the sports history...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Wawa and Walmart - Both stores are clearinghouses where you walk in and out, get what you want, and...

Cape’s Hackney and Batson are college guys and good...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Good guys - Josh Hackney and Trent Batson , a pair of 6-foot-4 friends and former Cape basketball...

Central at Cape crowd tame compared to 1990 Little...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Vociferous not boisterous - The Big House wrestling crowd Jan. 4, with bleachers on both sides...

Forever athletes always lace them up before a...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Cool Hand Billy - Billy Savage came to watch the Slam Dunk and not to spend 25 seconds on the court...

Guitar-strumming goalie Jeff Trench tops 40 in harmony

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Trenchtown Rock - Think reggae, home of Bob Marley and Rastafari elder Mortimer Planno . Dec. 28...

Hair of the Dog 5K and 10K on New Year’s Day

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Miscalculation - Football teams do not practice real-situation football. We all know about clock...

Matrix of resolutions range from get skinny to stay...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Skinny and sober - Gym memberships rely on resolutions and vows of sobriety, as every new year the...

Dean of Delaware Distance Running Doug White dies at...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Running machine - Grand Mom Rose would say of husband Frank ’s shiny Studebaker in the driveway, “...

Cape track a storied program with a rich tradition

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Two-mile relay - Back when tracks were 440 yards and not 400 meters (438 yards), the race was...

Robinson family presented with autographed ball from...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Coach collaboration - Coaches Freeman Williams of Caesar Rodney and Steve Re of Cape Henlopen...

Comcast Triple Play shuts down my offense

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
A blast at Comcast - My entire adult life includes deadlines for sports stories, and I have never...

Coach Dale Steele passes away; won state title at...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Dale Steele - Longtime football coach Dale Steele passed away last week. Dale taught and coached at...

Million dollar babies create sham show sports...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Million Dollar Baby - Alabama football coach Nick Saban makes $7 million a year plus incentives,...

Rocky is an ideal that ain’t real

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Rocky ain’t real - Temple football (9-3) played East Carolina at Lincoln Financial Field Nov. 26...

Connections and disconnections striking the balance

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Connections and disconnections - I suffered a momentary feeling of not belonging. To paraphrase a...

McKenzie Sanford lights and lifts up the spirits of...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Looking for a seat not a story - A down day afternoon, I was cruising the Cape gym watching a...

High school football playoffs begin Nov. 18

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Medulla Oblongata - I was watching a high school state tournament basketball game years ago with a...

Perhaps football officials do too good of a job

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Enhanced by penalties - You have never read, “It may have been a slow game but at least there were...

Connections to the past and each other are the best...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
One for gramps, man - Ben Bamforth won the Henlopen Conference cross country title 32 years to the...

Pick of the manger a player who leads a team to...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Pick of the manger - There is a scene in the movie Deliverance where the off-road adventurers stop...

Coverdale and Bernheimer getting it done at next level

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Validation - Erin Coverdale is a 5-foot-3 field hockey player at Franklin and Marshall by way of...

Who were those masked men in the urban jungle?

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Who were those masked men? Coach Brian Donahue and I were a couple of Sussex Squirrels on Walnut...

Wing T power players past now on hard times

8 years ago
Pretty lethal - The University of Delaware and Caesar Rodney High School ran defenses ragged for...

Friday night football on Monday afternoon

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Friday night on Monday afternoon - I watched Cape’s JV football team at Legends Stadium overcome a...

Beacon Beau Smith barrels around left end for a...

8 years ago
Beacon Beau Smith rumbles to pay dirt - Beacon head football coach Haywood Burton is sixth-grader...

Smyrna striders Ibironke and Bowser also stellar...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Stellar student-athletes - Smyrna cross country had the first-place boy and girl at a cross country...

Sports figures Sam Wylie and Bill Mitchell leave the...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Sam “Plukie” Wylie - A Sussex County teacher and coach, a longtime basketball official and local...