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People in Sports
One fat doughnut doesn’t change your appearance
Dave Frederick
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Don’t get in that grouchy line
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17 years ago
A starting left tackle on the University of Delaware national championship football team, Trip...
People in Sports
I can keep a secret, but I’m not holding on to any jokes
Dave Frederick
17 years ago
Samantha Fernandez was my student at Cape back in 2003, the year she graduated. She didn’t play...
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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...
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17 years ago
I tried to interview sophomore Dan Steele after last Saturday’s state lacrosse championship, but...
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17 years ago
The first Senior Day in 39 years of Cape baseball history was held last Monday, May 19, and there I...
People in Sports
When did I become banner boy?
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17 years ago
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People in Sports
A relative waiver will get you in
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17 years ago
Cody Palmer plays attack for Dover High and Wednesday, May 14, the sophomore scored three goals in...
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The Seaford pole vaulter has a pole rated 155 pounds and a new rule has the athlete weighing in...
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Their job is oversight, outta sight
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17 years ago
DEADLY DISTRACTION
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FLAG FOOTBALL - Perhaps the YMCA flag football league is the place where former quarterbacks go to...
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FOUR NAKED GUYS
- Speaking of Cape dress codes, out in the trophy case are four plaques...
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I see athletic people who don’t have a clue how to play the game
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17 years ago
PINK
- “I’m coming up, you better get this party started.” Many know him as the basketball...
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It’s all about muskrat lust, herding deer and treeing racoons
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17 years ago
MARSH MADNESS - Muck diving, truck driving and a Sussex County comical dog not worth nothing...
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Dugouts from Cold War era are monuments to a simpler time
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INCONGRUENCE
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The difference between these two track teams is paper thin
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17 years ago
WEIGH IN HILLARY - I am up to the eyeballs with coveted green jacket stories and I watched the...
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They need a smack down to prove they’re committed to their beliefs
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17 years ago
HANGING WITH THE FELLAS
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Just throw moon dust over the past like it never happened
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17 years ago
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17 years ago
SHAM I AM - The Bay Ball Classic basketball tournament of 2007, in which Cape signed on as a...
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The game is going or has gone more to the soft side
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17 years ago
CHUCKY’S BACK!
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Cape district needs a sports hall of fame and it needs one now
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17 years ago
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MARSH MONSTER HIGH
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That name is my copyright and soon it will be my space of emptiness
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17 years ago
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Be sure to stalk that talent ’cause it’ll make you look smart
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17 years ago
TALENT POOL
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17 years ago
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It goes beyond people we loved enduring inside us
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Snippets, snippets and more snippets
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SNIPPETS
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Cheating is like security - it’s all in or all out
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Sound of one punch snapping enough to scare mortal men
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GREAT WHITE DOPE
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TIRED EYEBALLS
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