People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

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Central at Cape, the Battle of Route 9, has produced...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Battle of Route 9 - The football game between Cape and Sussex Central has been played continuously...

Who are your people and where they stay at?

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Kinship Analysis - “Who are your people and where they stay at?” I walked out of a Ph.D. program in...

Runners veer off course, a coach points blame at...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
They went that way - A quadrangular cross country meet at Sussex Tech, run on the land across Route...

Sudden impact sports, a Dirty Harry weekend

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
S udden impact - Last Thursday night the Cape soccer team was locked in a double-overtime scoreless...

Cross country running is a blissful jaunt while...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
They call me the breeze - Cross country and road running are such great sports, it’s...

Fifteen middle school hockey teams play hard all day

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
We don’t play day - I knocked about the field hockey middle school play day Sept. 17 at Cape, and...

An entire wall challenges the refrigerator on sports...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
The big refrigerator - The home refrigerator will always be the primo place for in-house family...

Hall of Fame every day, all day long, enjoy the...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Hornet Hall of Fame - I was a guest at the Tim Bamforth table Sept. 9 at Dover Downs for the...

Flat screens for fat guys - let football begin

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Reflections - I’m overwhelmed and underpaid, undertrained and overfed. My free photos are...

Human stampede coming right at you

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Stampede of Striders - I have taken thousands of photos of hundreds of road runners running...

Real deal Neil sings anthem then runs biathlon in...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Real deal Neil - I first heard Neil Ewachiw sing the national anthem last September before the...

School sports season begins with national anthem

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Rights and reactions - We all have the right to sit and wear a hat and maybe eat a sandwich while...

Hochrein and Hitchcock are the double helix of...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Big green goalies - If a local photographer focuses his too-big-for-primetime lens on the home team...

The truly inspirational do so naturally and without...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Intelligent and congenial - Tracey Duffy is not a Duffie, although the local families are related...

Bolt is a crowd-pleasing champion and role model for...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Running with curvature - Usain Bolt runs the curve hard in the 200 meters, then lines up the field...

The number 50 motivates many toward milestone mileage

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
You better get 50 - A slang expression from the ‘70s meaning, “get out of my face,” preferably at...

Milton Little League off the chain taking on the big...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Cart before the horse - The Milton Majors baseball all-stars 11-12 team are in the hot mix with a...

Can’t stay in the closet without a water fountain

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Weird in a word way - A few years back after a road race, some women I know asked me to take a...

Groucho gait getting after it power walking

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Groucho gait - Not that long ago, I walked 100 miles a month each month for five consecutive years...

A sea of striding diversity on the running scene

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Kaleidoscope of colors and kilometers - Sports photographers, like the athletes they cover, have...

Diminished capacity the end of the rainbow for...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Diminished capacity - Most athletes I photograph and write about in the summertime are past peak...

Exotic life stories and the art of listening

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Button down - Hard to resist a Benjamin Button reference when writing about 84-year-old runner John...

Hydration is cool but when you’re hot, you’re hot

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Don’t forget to hydrate - You may love to run and work out in the heat, and you may enjoy the...

Mercy rules for mismatches and rules unwritten

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Mercy, mercy me - Mismatches in youth sports are kept somewhat under control by mercy rules,...

Cape girl power: 13-hour days and 13 state titles

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Thirteen-hour day - At 7 a.m., July 12, some field hockey girls met on the track for a conditioning...

Lewes is where I stay at

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Where you stay at? Just a local expression. I will often ask a female athlete I interview who...

One gallon donor blood or money

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
One Gallon Donor - Not to be negative but I am the universal donor- O negative- and if the Blood...

Old enough to act stupid, a responsibility and...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Old enough to act stupid - The drinking age is 21, which seems to be no deterrent to drinking...

Volleyball in the Little Big House

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Let’s talk volleyball - Last fall, first-year varsity volleyball coach Tyler Coupe led the Vikings...

Little League baseball tournaments have launched

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Welcome to my house - The Cape campus is the greatest venue for just about anything, from the...

Draw Dogg and Draw Kat face off at Vikings Lacrosse...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Draw Dogg and Draw Kat - Both Meg Bartley and later Kat Judge were centerpieces on state...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Dan McGinniss: A walk and talk of sports history

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Coach McGinniss - Dan McGinniss, now 81 years old, was at the Georgetown Library 5K watching his...

Cape’s Austin Elliott verbally commits to UNC

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Verbal commitment - Cape baseball player Austin Elliott , who just completed his sophomore season,...

Sunday morning sea of sports diversity is better...

9 years ago
Let’s get fired up - I love my diversified life, nestled inside my diversified country, and all...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Bagging the bracket, the best earned trophy for a...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Situational toughness - The Cape wrestling team placed third out of 16 teams last weekend at the...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Playing one for the team is a novel way to help...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
No debt for success - There is no I in team, but there is a me, and the goal is to win as long as “...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Fun with friends along the rails of competition

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Fun along the fence - I worked the rails at Wednesday night’s field hockey game at the University...
People in Sports

Dragging a chain up and down the football sidelines...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Double-leg takedown - I can’t get air, but I don’t need oxygen. I had just limped onto the Smyrna...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Standards that slide are more fun than rigid rules...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
We talkin’ Praxis, man - I never did figure out tests and measurements of other human beings, and I...
People in Sports

Cape field hockey and soccer ready for Championship...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Super Tuesday - Cape Henlopen field hockey and soccer will play for Henlopen Conference...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

That vibration in my pocket better not be your mom...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Get in the hole! Perhaps the lamest of all sports fans is the guy who screams "get in the hole...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Sports and politics blend like a Tutti-Frutti Smoothie

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Sports and politics - Celebrities in sports as well as sportswriters are expected to play in their...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Chirping and chattering and the cardinal rules of...

Dave Frederick
10 years ago
Cardiac yak yak - The cyber wireless updates transmitted a certain chirpiness from the Cape at...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Mumbling into a microphone defeats the purpose of...

Dave Frederick
10 years ago
Mumbling out loud - I must admit I do it; I didn’t always, but I do now. What is said I’m saying to...
People in Sports

College academics and athletics a system out of phase

Dave Frederick
10 years ago
Academic disconnect - There is no better feeling than switching on the light of learning inside...
People In Sports

Failing with intelligence takes lots of negative energy

Dave Frederick
10 years ago
Too cool for school - A celebrated high school athlete has to work at failing off a team in just...
People In Sports

A proliferation of pigskin pundits - time to cut the...

Dave Frederick
10 years ago
Describe and analyze - Thursday nights through Monday nights, I am blitzed and blown out, not from...

Cape hockey ready to ‘go on and git’ another state...

Dave Frederick
10 years ago
Bedrock - I was researching the University of New Haven Chargers’ website to verify when Jimmy...
People In Sports

Cape goes from Cave to Bob from Little-to-Big House

Dave Frederick
11 years ago
Stuffed Cabbage - I stood in line at Woodbridge Feb. 28 waiting to get into The Cave to watch a...
People In Sports

We talking craniums, collisions and concussions

Dave Frederick
11 years ago
Boys to blockheads - Fewer high school boys are electing to play football, and that trend has been...
People In Sports

Glazed highways shut down Atlanta again

Dave Frederick
11 years ago
How now snow plow - Listen up, you critical snow cows of the western world: The ice event in...
People In Sports

Some coaches could use a little coaching up

Dave Frederick
11 years ago
Breaking bad - I was never an “Old Yeller” when coaching; it just never fit my style, nor was I a...

The Blame Game: Sports fans always looking for...

Dave Frederick
12 years ago
Tough sledding - The Cape girls' basketball team lost to Padua at home Saturday afternoon 63-46...

Don't play like you practice! Play better on game day!

Dave Frederick
12 years ago
The adrenaline bounce - All players think they are show up/step up, game day tough, but many are...

Adult public display of rude behavior carries...

Dave Frederick
12 years ago
Word bombs - Remember when pet owners closed up a house and fogged it for fleas? This was back...

Allie Yeager gets hat trick but no hat in 6-0 win...

Dave Frederick
12 years ago
Allie Yeager got her first career hat trick but no hat - what up? - Sept. 21 at Cape as the field...
People In Sports

Brian Westbrook, running back and horse enthusiast,...

Dave Frederick
12 years ago
Tough darts, Ace! - The Cape Henlopen Dart League will have a rules meeting Tuesday, Sept. 4, at...
People In Sports

Football guys older than Gatorade and before Rubbermaid

Dave Frederick
12 years ago
Post Gator guys - Vaughn Trammell and Gilbert Maull sat on the Cape Gator after Cape’s Saturday...

Bradshaw's reluctant roll into end zone was oddly...

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
The rule is clear - The Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association rule governing non- school...

Who really comes home for homecoming?

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
Assault with a deadly - Let's kick it real. No one comes home for homecoming, and if you're out of...