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So what does waterboarding have to do with sports?
Dave Frederick
16 years ago
What does waterboarding have to do with sports? Are you serious? Years ago John the Blacksmith and...
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I was riding the bike because old athletes never die, we just recycle
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16 years ago
There should be a rule that anyone who yells, “Get in the hole!” after a professional golfer tees...
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Gold Coach Mike Tkach screamed “Heavy package!” during the Gold team scrimmage last Wednesday night...
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I know exactly what it’s like to be the other guy
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Teams don’t need to be in that position
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The Cape lacrosse girls beat St. Andrew’s last Thursday night and went into a diving dog pile of...
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DIAA awards a sportsmanship trophy to member schools that comply with certain criteria with...
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The riff-raff posse stays indoors when the sun is high in the sky
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The Saturday DIAA state track meet was four team titles contested each over 18 events with all...
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A few snapshots of athletes I meet in my travels
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This column is devoted to images on my sports beat captured with a long lens with no staging or...
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No coach enjoys compromising a commitment to excellence
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16 years ago
Ray Jackson, a former Delaware Titan, Little League star and Cape center fielder, is still playing...
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His job is to help good kids out of bad situations
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I am inclined to write a sentence on Cape’s intervention specialist like - “Otis Blackburn is a...
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I always considered myself a bad technique coach
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16 years ago
Still photography freezes bad form in the sport of track where technique trumps everything that isn...
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They don’t need some remote perspective draped over their accomplishments
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Parade story only mildly amusing
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Last Saturday morning I was the guy taking pictures at a Little League parade even though my...
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How do you punish kids who don’t care?
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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...
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Don’t put the blame on McDonald’s or pizza or hoagies
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16 years ago
April 14 was the golden anniversary of McDonald’s and they are still rocking introducing new...
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Marathoners are compelled to conquer the distance
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16 years ago
A marathon is 26.2 miles, and it is a standard tens of thousands of amateur runners have felt...
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Mixed messages: if you say no correlation you could be wrong
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16 years ago
Shot and discus thrower D.J. Reed wanted to run the high hurdles Monday, April 6, at Caesar Rodney...
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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...
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Here’s the long and short of hip surgery
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16 years ago
Back in 1977-78 I coached Cape cross country and track to a pair of state championships and ran the...
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Running up a sand dune overweight, hungry is the real challenge
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16 years ago
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What a great idea...in an Alfred Hitchcock kind of way
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16 years ago
Feed me information. And while you’re at it feed me free food. I cover professional and college...
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Why not piggyback on energy of youth?
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16 years ago
Adults over 30 are mostly resistant to change especially when it’s driven by those too young and...
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I’m just mad I didn’t get to rock a Greene Turtle T-shirt for Saint...
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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...
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Field hockey fans retreat from Little Big House battle
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16 years ago
Local interest groups, in particular the field hockey lobbies, have backed down from their attempts...
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Ignominious ending just the beginning
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16 years ago
Americans die in full-powered slippery bathrooms every morning. “Ignominious endings,” my...
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Dave Frederick
16 years ago
I noticed something really good going on at a Smyrna basketball game two years ago and wrote about...
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16 years ago
I have seen that look in the eyes of people who fish for real with gold-plated reels. It’s all...
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Cape girls, boys, Christian boys head to tourney
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16 years ago
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All Cape Henlopen all the time, except at the polls
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16 years ago
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News flash: I wear two-figure shirts for a six-figure income
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