People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

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We are lucky; we live at the beach!

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
FOUR NAKED GUYS - Speaking of Cape dress codes, out in the trophy case are four plaques...

U.S field hockey team, Lingo headed to summer Olympics

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
BEST IN SHOW – Here’s a little pointer: Maurice Pointer is the dog you always want to bet on in a...

I see athletic people who don’t have a clue how to...

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
PINK - “I’m coming up, you better get this party started.” Many know him as the basketball...

It’s all about muskrat lust, herding deer and...

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
MARSH MADNESS - Muck diving, truck driving and a Sussex County comical dog not worth nothing...

Dugouts from Cold War era are monuments to a simpler...

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
INCONGRUENCE - I don’t know the value of real estate in Rehoboth, just that I can barely...

The difference between these two track teams is...

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
WEIGH IN HILLARY - I am up to the eyeballs with coveted green jacket stories and I watched the...

They need a smack down to prove they’re committed to...

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
HANGING WITH THE FELLAS - True story - I come from a background spent studying psychology...

Just throw moon dust over the past like it never...

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
GATORADE TIGER - Tiger Woods is alright - I don’t mind him, but I don’t find him particularly...

If I get mired down in the rules I can’t enjoy the game

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
RULES FOR FOOLS - I have watched more sporting events and paid more attention than anyone...

The absurdities and inequities are beginning to rile me

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
SHAM I AM - The Bay Ball Classic basketball tournament of 2007, in which Cape signed on as a...

The game is going or has gone more to the soft side

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
CHUCKY’S BACK! - You have to be old school to know that Tracy Jones, the dad, goes by...

Cape district needs a sports hall of fame and it...

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
BRACKET BETRAYAL - I am a nondistinguished member of an online bracket pool for the NCAA men’s...

Hulking high school looms over new green turf field

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
MARSH MONSTER HIGH - Stand on the new green turf field with your foot on a soccer ball and...

That name is my copyright and soon it will be my...

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
FRIAR CONNECTION - Robin and his merry men were captured and boiled in oil except for Tuck because...

We’re a cosmopolitan center of indoor and outdoor...

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
MISREMEMBER - It was Steve Welsh who reminded me that it was Roger Clemens who used the...

It's called the athletic intelligence quotient

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
TRIGGER PERSON - Basketball has point guards while lacrosse and soccer have that all-purpose...

Be sure to stalk that talent ’cause it’ll make you...

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
TALENT POOL - The more sports offered by a school during a season the more diluted the...

Jerry Kobasa: That was the classiest thing I’ve seen...

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
ELENA - Nice kid and a super person - you just don’t get any better than her and that’s all aside...

They were possessed of the one true message and felt...

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
DO I CARE? - Did you ever hear a coach talk about his team’s overall GPA and the fact that...

Why am I such a lonely voice on the Little Big House...

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
TEAR THE HOUSE DOWN! - The Henlopen Conference boys basketball final was double-decker madness last...

He’s young and still learning how to put it all...

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
GRAY SHIRT - Carl Hinton is a Sussex Central football and basketball athlete who has been...

Is that money flying around or is it just sitting...

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
OFF CAMERA - Cape wrestling coach Dale Eckrote locked up with his freshman son Ian just off...

On the court, the laws of physics get turned upside...

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
SLEAZE BALL - Trainer Brian McNamee isn’t the only person going around calling himself...

It goes beyond people we loved enduring inside us

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
HEARTS FOR HAXTON - The body is temporal while the spirit endures. Last Sunday morning...

Snippets, snippets and more snippets

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
SNIPPETS - Brycen Davis, a 2007 Cape graduate and two-event state champion on the track in...

Cheating is like security - it’s all in or all out

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
PLAYERS AND SPECTATORS - Perhaps hundreds of millions of football fans sat and watched the...

Sound of one punch snapping enough to scare mortal men

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
GREAT WHITE DOPE - Jerry Quarry was once dubbed by Muhammed Ali as the Great White Dope who...

At least try to fool someone that the moment is one...

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
WOMEN ALL-STATERS - I scanned a list of All-State players for girls basketball, which...

If you miss a legend of the past they are bound to...

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
TIRED EYEBALLS - Last week I listed first team All-State players of local interest going...

Back when everybody knew everybody else

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
MRS. HANLEY - I am old school but a generation short of the storied period of a Lewes lost...

We all know tourists don’t go home no more

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
FIRST TEAM ALL-STATERS - My training as a sportswriter goes back to mentor Dick Dougherty...

Animal ball is alive and well on the courts of...

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED - Let’s talk youth sports and determine, “What is the actual purpose...

Judson Wall is a top-notch student/athlete at Beacon...

Dave Frederick
17 years ago
JUDSON WALL - Judson was an Athlete of the Week in the Dec. 28 edition of the paper for his...