People in Sports

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I can see a picture of my face with an arrow - hit...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
There is a retention pond beyond the outfield fence at Cape Henlopen’s Chris Short field that has...

Just a word to the wise for June bugs

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I’m usually OK with cash, but not last Saturday at the Bob after Cape upset St. Mark’s. I did my...

Every coach knows how to protect a player in foul...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Bishop Egan basketball had not made the Philadelphia Catholic playoffs since the year I was the...

Cape’s Kyle White becomes a milestone man at his...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
The screaming green surf and turf field at Legends Stadium has been cleared for spring takeoff as...

There are too many All-Americans running loose...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I get it but don’t like the commercial highjacking of outstanding high school athletes by McDonald’...

Wrestling resumed and a good time was had by most...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
White noise is wireless infiltration from the world of restless spirits coming through as static...

I’m amazed how some teenage athletes can put on weight

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
How does a projected “rain event” for this Monday turn into a 30-inch snowstorm? Local coastal...

Bay Ball players are still tearing it up in college...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
The Bay Ball basketball tournament is gone from Cape, along with the Little Big House, but...

Granny rolls large and in charge in South Philly...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
A Bally Total Fitness Club in South Philadelphia forgot to tell Grandmom the policy of reserving...

What happened to all the good ol’ boys with...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I have discovered a problem shared by others. When I admit that sports, music and entertainment...

Coach Bill Collick to hang up headphones

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Thirty-five years and three Cape high schools ago, on a warm September Friday night in downtown...

Milford and Cape join to celebrate conference crowns

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
The Cape Henlopen women’s indoor track team ran away from the competition Wednesday, Jan. 27, at...

You have to be a sociopath not to return respect

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I am clever, witty, entertaining and insightful, blessed with a depth and breadth of knowledge...

What time is it? Roll out the chemistry set to find...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Last Saturday I found I could read 400 pages of the 700-page “Book of Basketball” by Bill Simmons...

How cool would that be to forever hold the 19,999...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs now moves a bit like the Tin Man in search of an oil can after...

They are not about to limit out, as we salty dogs...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
The Cape girls lacrosse team is the newest of Cape sports – let’s call it an “add-on alternate” to...

A coach can become dog meat for every complaining...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
The Cape boy’s basketball team lost to Dover at home 76-43 on opening night of the season Dec. 4,...

They were trading the entire team and firing the...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I watched all four games over wild card weekend and now all four winners must travel to the next...

A second turf field to replace those giant dirt piles

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Baby Kaelyn Rodgers was born on New Year’s Day. Dave Kergaard is her maternal grandfather without...

I envision a forest of tie-dyed rodents with...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
The last week was a blur of football bowl games and pro games and playoff permutations. And how can...

That time of year when strangers run amok trying to...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
New Year’s Eve is my least favorite holiday. It has something to do with strangers running amok...

Get out the vacuum and prep for some serious downtime

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
The showdown is just about to go down this Sunday, Jan. 3, when the Cowboys host the Eagles for the...

This is the time for end-of-year garbage stuff or...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” - Hunter Thompson. I can spot a bad and...

For some reason I actually showed up at a required...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
A soap-opera-long weekend for quarterbacks played out over the weekend in the NFL. Tony Romo was...

What does a Tiger do in the woods besides prowl for...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
There are scores of idealized gym people who are regimented and augmented, not to mention...

Win a state championship and the party never ends

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Welcome to the NFL Monday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday rotation. The Eagles are who I thought...

It shows us all that we really shouldn’t settle for...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I had the idea for this winter’s sports season to devote one of the windows in the Athlete of the...

Cape’s great women players to be honored

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
The first women’s game at Cape’s new Little Big House will be Friday night, Dec. 11, versus Milford...

Behavior and freedom to make bad choices fall back...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I will not drop the names of local athletes I have covered and written about who were recently...

Good stuff, a great life, a story all about family...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I can picture a championship baseball or softball game on a sun-drenched field and a crowd of 1,000...

Darla actually lived in Lewes during her retirement...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I was taking pictures at last Saturday’s marathon, actually a thousand photos, and over the years...

There’s no way I have short-term lapses, only relapses

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Last Saturday was a three-sport day that began with taking pictures of 700 runners rolling down a...

Cilento gets credit for making a decision and taking...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Sportsmanship is a concept easily spoken but often elusive when put to the test. Both Sussex Tech...

The winning touchdown was a penalty but not called

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
With a few minutes left in Saturday’s Cape football season at Smyrna, I asked the down-marker guy...

The best social groups are the ones thrown together...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I don’t mean to be negative, but it’s in my blood. I am universal donor guy so I am frequently...

For some kids the school family is the best family...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I announced the senior cheerleaders, managers and football players before the game last Friday...

The real wild card in the field hockey tourney will...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I would have walked to Philly from Lewes for the parade if they had come back from a 3-1 deficit,...

Someday in my future I’ll be rocking to a beat only...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
A Fredman original sports column has appeared each week in the resort region uninterrupted and the...

Cape’s undefeated field hockey team looks blue-light...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Cape’s undefeated varsity field hockey team looked blue-light fast Wednesday night at Legends...

Everywhere I go to play or work, things are being...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Holy Toledo! Aunt Rose dropped 25 pounds and has just registered on the bathroom scale at 349 and...

I’m thinking about covering the game as a Giant Juggalo

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I would rather take a beating than be stuck in the post-party Philly bar screaming into dead spaces...

Words can have a myriad of meanings

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
A crazy weekend in sports where a University of Connecticut football cornerback is stabbed outside...

For a half a million I’d play middle linebacker...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Cross country is the easiest of sports to score. There are seven runners per team, a runner gets...

My job in life is to pay attention

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Three of the four divisional series in baseball were sweeps - only the Phillies and Rockies are...

I am a conduit of uninvited criticisms and counter...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
The Phillies are fun when they win, but that bullpen will bite them because it is just empty of...

It seems to me like riff-raff is driving the policy

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Sussex Tech has a “side out” policy at home football games. If you want to visit the other side of...

My Chico, sure as heck, isn’t doing any oil burner laps

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Why do 1,000 people get up early on a rain-driven Sunday morning and drive to Milton to run in a...

A hockey hotbed in Sussex

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Last Tuesday night at Legends Stadium “hockey was in the house!” Two of the state’s best teams,...

There was commotion in the ocean as 2,500 competed

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
There was commotion in the ocean last weekend as two days of triathlons attracted more than 2,500...

The game was a happening; someday the Hornets are...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Scores of people, regardless of college affiliation, just wanted to see Delaware State at Delaware...

Community concern is often a referendum on character

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Brian Tappan, Cape student and lacrosse player, suffered a serious spinal injury after an ATV...

How good would Cape football have been with all...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
There’s one thing we can learn from a fat sporting dog. The more you toss them food the more...

How about a midnight bike tour through rough...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
More Philly fans “down here” than Baltimore or Washington, but the truth is most are fans of Eagles...

Real guy kickoff weekend coming up

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
A laptop and two high-definition flat screens are the minimum required to follow football and...

We just built a new high school, so why are we...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
There has been no “blow back” from my column going full-bore super-soaker Shawala on a boosters...

Second Chance Vick may send quarterback A.J. Feeley...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Eagles fourth-team quarterback A.J. Feeley, now 32 years old, passed for 5,428 yards and 54...

Who is in charge and responsible for students at a...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Boneheaded is the word I’m trying to avoid but it is the only word left for me to match with field...

Throw A-Rod out of baseball or let Pete Rose into...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Andrew Williams, a 32-year-old fit and sober young man, lives in Lewes and teaches and coaches at...

You’ll hear terms like ‘bragging rights’ being...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
On Saturday, Sept. 19, Delaware State will play the University of Delaware in Newark, the first-...

Michael Vick cleans up better than a battered...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Staying loyal when times are tough is like keeping a secret on the promise, “Certainly, I won’t...