People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

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I can bust a move myself, but only when no one is...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Red Lion Christian beat the Ferris School for Boys 68-56 Tuesday night, Jan. 13, to go 10-1 on the...

It’s a leap of faith to have these two groups on the...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Five hundred marathon runners on a brutally frigid and windy Saturday morning hitting the wall at...

State tourney appearance puts the goblins to bed

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Basketball season is about to begin, which can only mean that Tony Hazzard is about to bust out his...

Do you know what to do when your pocket begins to...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Dan Dierdorf said of Eli Manning: “One of the nicest things you can say about a quarterback is that...

I have never aspired to anything of the year

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
The Connecticut College Camels play in the small college NESCAC up in snowy New England with the...

The big old bear was soft of heart and his players...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Coach Dave McDowell won his first game as a head coach in 1996 and was given a signed game ball by...

Every Friday night is another opportunity to get crazy

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Cape waited for the court last Saturday night as the tall and pony-tailed Ursuline Red Raider...

Soundman was asleep at the wheel

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
“The thing coach [John] Harbaugh likes about his rookie quarterback [Joe] Flacco is that he’s...

If I find them, I may go O.J. and ask for their return

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
When Nate Carnevale sent home the game winner against Sussex Tech for a 2-1 soccer victory, I...

The best magic of all

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Magic Jack Noel is a fit little bugger and a great guy who ran his first race last Sunday as a 70-...

Barrel racing, new shoes, midnight madness, sets of...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Poco is a good old mare, a trail horse who turned out to be a nice barrel horse. Hannah Beck, a...

I’m going to get a brick so I can cry every time I...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Suddenly a bunch of big men start screaming, “Unbalanced!” and I start looking for Charles Manson...

If the gates of heaven squeak, Doney will let St....

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Dick Doney, retired Cape guidance counselor and my friend in Lewes from day one, passed away last...

‘When the going gets weird the weird turn pro’

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Sarah Palin dropped the first puck of the season in Philly last Saturday night before the Rangers...

I’ve threatened to write a manual for athletes, coaches

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
I was a little surprised to find myself writing a hockey story and the consecutive words Red Lion...

Simpson belongs in jail because he is truly dangerous

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
High school kids rarely use the word crazy or even insane, preferring a phrase like, “O.J. Simpson...

I’m the Rainman of sports crowd counters

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
I am the radar brain traffic controller of the local sports scene. I know what balls are in the air...

A comedian on a personal attack commits the worst of...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Solidly 15 or 20 years ago, give or take two or three, the Renaissance Rednecks convoyed out of...

Substitution pattern is a mystery to players and fans

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
The Sussex Academy of Arts and Sciences was at Beacon Middle School last Monday for a soccer game...

I have no desire to shoot cannons or Punkin Chunkin...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
The organized fitness activity numbers are up but the level of fitness is way off. Maybe there is a...

How can 33 million people watch the Eagles lose to...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Ryan “Pop Tart” Whibley is hosting baseball workouts for anyone in grades 6–12 at the high school...

I had that vision, so I said no to the job

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
I must admit after watching Redskins head coach Jim Zorn in his first press conference following a...

Only those who don’t work hard should be assigned...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Two weeks ago there was a picture in People in Sports of my nephew Mike Frederick with Cape’s two...

I was the worst football official in the history of...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Dick Vermeil is 72 years old and still as unrelentingly energetic as he was when he led the Eagles...

People who live here have no shortage of weather...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
In September 1975 on a horrendously stormy night I stood in a Lewes building on Sussex Drive known...

Turning down free food is just plain rude

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
We all know that diet and exercise work but are boring and that really skinny people are...

Not a hint of what the coach is talking about

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
The Stephan Decatur defense was battling to keep Cape out of the end zone at last Wednesday night’s...

Things don’t always add up like your checking account

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
There is an old refrigerator in the converted closet that serves now as the Cape coaching office,...

Cape will need all the kinetic energy it can generate

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
I nicknamed him “Stealth” because Cape physics teacher John Hilton flies so fast off the radar...

Athletes make up names for each other in summer sports

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
I needed no stimulus to alert and remind me that two days earlier I made a stupid mistake. I was...

Viewers will legitimize anything as a sport

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
If you were an aging, rescued-from-the-pound “sorta-spaniel” with a dash of poodle thrown in just...

Summer Olympics 2008: Let’s get quizzical!

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Women’s gymnastics is mostly freakish to watch and in the steroid era it is certainly different to...

Kids just get pulled and tugged

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
It takes a village to raise a child but it takes travel ball to take the kid on the road. I am...

All who participated are shameless and blameless

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
“I’m your Venus; I’m your fire at your desire.” Pirate Pete, with a Ph.D in hand and a...

That’s the end of that argument

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Big Tom, my 6-foot-6, off-the-Toledo-balance-beam brother who played for Rip Engel at Penn State,...

I find spontaneous sportsmanship inspiring

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Athletes understand brotherhood better than anyone except for maybe Marines. Last Sunday at the...

Hockey, lacrosse camps dog the days of summer

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
All camps and all games have been hot all the time over the last week but for Coach KK’s “You Gotta...

There’s no such thing as job security or due process

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Last Saturday morning I was a guest of Anthony Joseph on WGMD’s half hour sports radio program...

I’m just doing my job raising the questions

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
The Rehoboth All-Stars lost to Lower Sussex last Tuesday night 4-2 and were eliminated from the...

Vanderwende: a relentless runner, working farmer

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Out on the sports beat there is no nicer guy than the relentless runner and working farmer from...

Hand someone 725 pounds and something’s going to get...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Some dude named Steve Green at a West Coast powerlifting meet suffered what experts of the sport of...

To tell the truth I’m up to my eyeballs with Tootells

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Asking is an invitation to tell a story. I took a picture of Emma, 2, and Ryder, 1, Tootell kicking...

Fit enough to hang on and fat enough to stay inside

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
This weekend back in 1999 I was a passenger in my own 4-Runner driven by my high school friend Joe...

Once married to a lie it’s hard to divorce back to...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Most tales of sports exaggerations I can spot minutes before they’re fully developed and I usually...

Bay Ball: no pay ball

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
When I first came to Lewes, friends from Philly would ask me, “What are the public schools like...

I want to see beads of sweat in high definition

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
I walked west down Columbia Avenue off Broad Street at night in the fall of 1965 with 10 one-dollar...

Coach Marshall was a Lewes boy and first-class person

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
I stuck the dismount of the stationary bike at Gold’s Gym last Wednesday morning after the computer...

Following codes of comedy, I’m allowed to make fun...

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
A person who is not me speculated, at 11 a.m. on referendum day, that passage looked doubtful...

One fat doughnut doesn’t change your appearance

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
Packer Avenue, a block off Broad Street near the stadium complex, is a neighborhood sports bar big...

What do a lion and a dog have in common?

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
Norman Rockwell’s paintings in the Saturday Evening Post were said to capture images of Americana...

Don’t get in that grouchy line

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
A starting left tackle on the University of Delaware national championship football team, Trip...

I can keep a secret, but I’m not holding on to any...

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
Samantha Fernandez was my student at Cape back in 2003, the year she graduated. She didn’t play...

Putting it on the line and getting things done

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
The athletes are the alpha dogs of high school. The Alpha males and females are the leaders of the...

In the end, it's all a head game

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
I tried to interview sophomore Dan Steele after last Saturday’s state lacrosse championship, but...

Borrow the gas money and vote yes

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
The first Senior Day in 39 years of Cape baseball history was held last Monday, May 19, and there I...

When did I become banner boy?

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
Amada Mandujano is Sussex County’s más grande de México - largest Mexican - and as long as he keeps...

A relative waiver will get you in

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
Cody Palmer plays attack for Dover High and Wednesday, May 14, the sophomore scored three goals in...

Those pesky Pop Tarts show up in the strangest places

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
The Seaford pole vaulter has a pole rated 155 pounds and a new rule has the athlete weighing in...

Their job is oversight, outta sight

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
DEADLY DISTRACTION - I was just trying to watch a lacrosse game last Wednesday night, so...

How cool would that be for community relations?

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
FLAG FOOTBALL - Perhaps the YMCA flag football league is the place where former quarterbacks go to...