People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

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

Dave Frederick
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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...

1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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...