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People in Sports
It’s a different planet he hails from when a lacrosse game’s in front of...
Dave Frederick
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People already get it, you don’t need me to tell you. Mark D’Ambrogi, the Vikings’ head lacrosse...
People in Sports
Why so aggressive? What happened to the form tackle?
Dave Frederick
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I watch too much professional football and as I observe defensive backs with arms too big launching...
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I can bust a move myself, but only when no one is looking
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16 years ago
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16 years ago
Dan Dierdorf said of Eli Manning: “One of the nicest things you can say about a quarterback is that...
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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...
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The big old bear was soft of heart and his players could sense that
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...
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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...
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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...
People in Sports
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...
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The best magic of all
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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-...
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Barrel racing, new shoes, midnight madness, sets of sisters
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16 years ago
Poco is a good old mare, a trail horse who turned out to be a nice barrel horse. Hannah Beck, a...
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I’m going to get a brick so I can cry every time I look at it
Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Suddenly a bunch of big men start screaming, “Unbalanced!” and I start looking for Charles Manson...
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If the gates of heaven squeak, Doney will let St. Peter know
Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Dick Doney, retired Cape guidance counselor and my friend in Lewes from day one, passed away last...
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‘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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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A comedian on a personal attack commits the worst of all sins
Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Solidly 15 or 20 years ago, give or take two or three, the Renaissance Rednecks convoyed out of...
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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...
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I have no desire to shoot cannons or Punkin Chunkin machines
Dave Frederick
16 years ago
The organized fitness activity numbers are up but the level of fitness is way off. Maybe there is a...
People in Sports
How can 33 million people watch the Eagles lose to Dallas?
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16 years ago
Ryan “Pop Tart” Whibley is hosting baseball workouts for anyone in grades 612 at the high school...
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I had that vision, so I said no to the job
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16 years ago
I must admit after watching Redskins head coach Jim Zorn in his first press conference following a...
People in Sports
Only those who don’t work hard should be assigned fictitious names
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...
People in Sports
I was the worst football official in the history of the world
Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Dick Vermeil is 72 years old and still as unrelentingly energetic as he was when he led the Eagles...
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People who live here have no shortage of weather theories
Dave Frederick
16 years ago
In September 1975 on a horrendously stormy night I stood in a Lewes building on Sussex Drive known...
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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...
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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...
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Dave Frederick
16 years ago
There is an old refrigerator in the converted closet that serves now as the Cape coaching office,...
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Cape will need all the kinetic energy it can generate
Dave Frederick
17 years ago
I nicknamed him “Stealth” because Cape physics teacher John Hilton flies so fast off the radar...
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Athletes make up names for each other in summer sports
Dave Frederick
17 years ago
I needed no stimulus to alert and remind me that two days earlier I made a stupid mistake. I was...
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Viewers will legitimize anything as a sport
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17 years ago
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Summer Olympics 2008: Let’s get quizzical!
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17 years ago
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Kids just get pulled and tugged
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17 years ago
It takes a village to raise a child but it takes travel ball to take the kid on the road. I am...
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All who participated are shameless and blameless
Dave Frederick
17 years ago
“I’m your Venus; I’m your fire at your desire.”
Pirate Pete, with a Ph.D in hand and a...
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That’s the end of that argument
Dave Frederick
17 years ago
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I find spontaneous sportsmanship inspiring
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17 years ago
Athletes understand brotherhood better than anyone except for maybe Marines. Last Sunday at the...
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Hockey, lacrosse camps dog the days of summer
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17 years ago
All camps and all games have been hot all the time over the last week but for Coach KK’s “You Gotta...
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Dave Frederick
17 years ago
Last Saturday morning I was a guest of Anthony Joseph on WGMD’s half hour sports radio program...
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I’m just doing my job raising the questions
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17 years ago
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17 years ago
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Some dude named Steve Green at a West Coast powerlifting meet suffered what experts of the sport of...
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This weekend back in 1999 I was a passenger in my own 4-Runner driven by my high school friend Joe...
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