People in Sports

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I could scatter 11 hits over five innings for that...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Jamie Moyer sat in the Chicago dugout looking like a sad sack while staring at his cleats. He...

We can take your job anytime we want for whatever...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I got this email from former Cape cross country and track coach Pat Pollock last week and thought I...

Here’s another good role model story for young athletes

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Todd Herremans and Juqua Parker, a pair of Eagle defensive starters, were pulled over a few days...

Boosters may not be the root, but Roberts still was...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Back it down, Fredboy! If you can’t offend your friends once in a while, what good are you as a...

I’m soap boxing here, but I owe a certain loyalty to...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
There is the entire road racing phenomenol - triathlons and other endurance events that attract...

Do small states engage in the smallest arguments?

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
The PIAA, the governing body for scholastic sports in the state of Pennsylvania, decided to move...

In sports, fairness isn’t part of that quadratic...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
There ain’t no justice in sports and if sports truly prepares a person for life - the microcosm...

Released into the greater human zoo filled with bad...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Last Sunday morning I sat stoned in the front seat of my 4-Runner sweating out residual morphine...

So what does waterboarding have to do with sports?

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
What does waterboarding have to do with sports? Are you serious? Years ago John the Blacksmith and...

That’s what most guys do because we’re always ready...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Tim Stauffer was the fourth pick in the 2003 Major League draft chosen by the San Diego Padres. The...

Funerals are easy compared to saving the life of a...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
My good friend Dave Kergaard is going on five weeks past hip replacement surgery - his second - and...

Do you know the difference between book smart and...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I have to find out from the Bagel Buddha Dave Vitella that Tyler Townsend has signed a minor league...

I was riding the bike because old athletes never die...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Last Tuesday morning I drove past the valet staff dressed in red and black by the west wing...

A decorated track star chased a gator through the...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
The 14th annual Bill Degnan 5K race attracted 110 runners last Sunday morning, June 28. Tim...

We lasted seven before being kicked off for breaches...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Sixteen-year-old Kameron Chandler, a student athlete and dynamic personality with natural...

I am hoping Bobby can be put back together

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
There should be a rule that anyone who yells, “Get in the hole!” after a professional golfer tees...

I was having flashbacks to the days of vintage uniforms

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Gold Coach Mike Tkach screamed “Heavy package!” during the Gold team scrimmage last Wednesday night...

Just duck if you see a Pittsburgh transplant headed...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
There are no cool clothes for big guys, which is why I wear double X Under Armour every day except...

The trick is to use the dork in all of us the first...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Great artists don’t paint every day and deep thinkers mostly cogitate and vegetate because, just...

The walk of life is the journey we all take together

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Last Saturday morning, June 6, the Great Strides walk and 5K to raise awareness and funds for...

Athletes need to be held to the higher ultimate...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Athletes on sports teams know everything about each other including who parties during the season...

I know exactly what it’s like to be the other guy

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Mark Petitgout is the 29-year-old younger brother of former NFL offensive lineman and first-round...

Finally, some information readers might find useful

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Summer sports camps may be fun, especially for empty nest parents still in their prime, but they...

Teams don’t need to be in that position

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
The Cape lacrosse girls beat St. Andrew’s last Thursday night and went into a diving dog pile of...

True sportsmanship is just the essence of some athletes

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
DIAA awards a sportsmanship trophy to member schools that comply with certain criteria with...

The riff-raff posse stays indoors when the sun is...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
The Saturday DIAA state track meet was four team titles contested each over 18 events with all...

A few snapshots of athletes I meet in my travels

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
This column is devoted to images on my sports beat captured with a long lens with no staging or...

No coach enjoys compromising a commitment to excellence

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Ray Jackson, a former Delaware Titan, Little League star and Cape center fielder, is still playing...

His job is to help good kids out of bad situations

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
I am inclined to write a sentence on Cape’s intervention specialist like - “Otis Blackburn is a...

I always considered myself a bad technique coach

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Still photography freezes bad form in the sport of track where technique trumps everything that isn...

They don’t need some remote perspective draped over...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Are you serious? - Jacqui Ritter was the honorary starter for last Friday’s Autism Awareness Day,...

Parade story only mildly amusing

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Last Saturday morning I was the guy taking pictures at a Little League parade even though my...

How do you punish kids who don’t care?

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
You just have to be related to travel 30 miles to watch an away girls soccer game of two 40-minute...

Runner Bob Sanders says bare feet prevent injury

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Bob Sanders set a record Sunday, April 12, at the Cape Henlopen Educational Foundation 10K by...

Don’t put the blame on McDonald’s or pizza or hoagies

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
April 14 was the golden anniversary of McDonald’s and they are still rocking introducing new...

Marathoners are compelled to conquer the distance

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
A marathon is 26.2 miles, and it is a standard tens of thousands of amateur runners have felt...

Mixed messages: if you say no correlation you could...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Shot and discus thrower D.J. Reed wanted to run the high hurdles Monday, April 6, at Caesar Rodney...

State too small for so much mistrust

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Last Saturday’s baseball game at Cape versus visiting A.I. duPont was well attended by fans from...

Here’s the long and short of hip surgery

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Back in 1977-78 I coached Cape cross country and track to a pair of state championships and ran the...

Running up a sand dune overweight, hungry is the...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
RUN FOR FUN - An April Fools guess the distance race run Sunday, March 29, is odd enough and that...

What a great idea...in an Alfred Hitchcock kind of way

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Feed me information. And while you’re at it feed me free food. I cover professional and college...

Why not piggyback on energy of youth?

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Adults over 30 are mostly resistant to change especially when it’s driven by those too young and...

I’m just mad I didn’t get to rock a Greene Turtle T...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
If I hear the words “Greene Turtle” one more time as I’m standing at a lacrosse game, I am going to...

Field hockey fans retreat from Little Big House battle

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Local interest groups, in particular the field hockey lobbies, have backed down from their attempts...

Ignominious ending just the beginning

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Americans die in full-powered slippery bathrooms every morning. “Ignominious endings,” my...

Power of love propels Smyrna; Cape's love train has...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
I noticed something really good going on at a Smyrna basketball game two years ago and wrote about...

Fishing and flying both safe, but losing can be big

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
I have seen that look in the eyes of people who fish for real with gold-plated reels. It’s all...

Cape girls, boys, Christian boys head to tourney

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
The Cape girls basketball team will host the Padua Pandas Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. in the first...

All Cape Henlopen all the time, except at the polls

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Board member Spencer Brittingham tapped me on the shoulder in the early moments of the third...

News flash: I wear two-figure shirts for a six...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Retired Cape physics teacher John Sarik sees and hears a world most people ignore. Lately, I’ve...

We had to invent ADD to account for adult slowness...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
PowerPoint presentations are so yesterday. And that’s because technology keeps moving and improving...

You hear it ‘down here in Delaware’ anywhere there’s...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
I took a picture of a 4-year-old waiting for her mother to finish last Saturday’s Valentine’s Day...

Last time I checked, the game was about character

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Medical experts recently reported that there is a small window of opportunity for the certified-...

Who is crazier, hockey fathers or wrestling mothers?

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
At a home wrestling match versus Smyrna Friday, Feb. 6, I heard a man yell “hamster head,” and I...

Who is waxing the alleys, causing the Hornets to slip?

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
The Delaware State Lady Keglers posted wins over No. 1 Vanderbilt and No. 2 Nebraska, then slipped...

I moved in for the interview because I’m all about...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
I was the photographer in a one-size-doesn’t-fit-me molded plastic chair last Friday night taking...

Community service without a court sentence

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
“Mammals Mammals … their names are called, they raise a paw.” – “Mammals” by They Might Be...

Some stories behind the DSBA banquet

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Amelia and John Knarr operate Elite Fitness on the second floor of the Stein building on the...

It’s a different planet he hails from when a...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
People already get it, you don’t need me to tell you. Mark D’Ambrogi, the Vikings’ head lacrosse...

Why so aggressive? What happened to the form tackle?

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
I watch too much professional football and as I observe defensive backs with arms too big launching...