People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

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Viewers will legitimize anything as a sport

Dave Frederick
17 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
17 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 years ago
FLAG FOOTBALL - Perhaps the YMCA flag football league is the place where former quarterbacks go to...

We are lucky; we live at the beach!

Dave Frederick
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 years ago
HEARTS FOR HAXTON - The body is temporal while the spirit endures. Last Sunday morning...

Snippets, snippets and more snippets

Dave Frederick
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 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
18 years ago
MRS. HANLEY - I am old school but a generation short of the storied period of a Lewes lost...