People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

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Runners are friendly and gracious, but racing is...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Me too, me first - I was taking photos at the finish line at the Dam Mill 5K in Millsboro July 28...

Alia and Evan are a couple of kids connecting at...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Friends Central - Evan Chubb is a rising third-grader, the third of four children of Katie and Josh...

Mr. Field Hockey is an inside joke working outside...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Inside joke - “They call me Mr. Field Hockey.” That was started by the zen master of Cape girls’...

Earth stands still on Cape campus with news of...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Full stop! - The earth spins at 1,000 miles per hour, yet there is no sense of speed. On Tuesday...

Billbow Dunning a rock-hard, humble hero, an athlete...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Fast and rock-hard humble - William Billbow Dunning died July 13, felled by a heart attack or...

Runner’s high is crystal-clear sobriety for early...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Dewey never sleeps - Dewey isn’t the town that never sleeps, but the town that sleeps in shifts. At...

Summer open fields and gyms are optional, but best...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Home opener - There is a closing-time joke, “You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.”...

A string of four-letter words tying together stories...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Four-letter words - The words are Cape, Emma, Anna and Maci. Three young athletes, all of whom...

Legendary field hockey coach Carolyn Ivins turns 85,...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Get off my lawn - Cape field hockey coach Carolyn Ivins (1969-79) won the school's first state...

Sun’s out! Guns out! Jeff Jablon dazzles friends...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Choo Choo Jablon - Jeff Jablon, 48, is the quintessential player to be named later. He is the guy...

Strokin’ aint no jokin’ – stop and drop if it gets...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Lean on me - Good hydrations bop bop. It’s no secret I have seen more runners finish races than...

Sinking storylines like outriggers in a marlin...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Goody two-shoemakers - Two women looked the part standing at the starting line of the SoDel Cares...

Relaxed laxer now a rising eighth-grader and a player

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Relaxed laxer - Summer sports camps proliferate here at Sesame Street by the Sea, and quite frankly...

Chicken Chase 5K reveals a free-ranging chicken who...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Algebraic equation - I covered the University of Delaware Chicken Chase 5K Saturday morning. It...

Beefalo Brigade and biodegradable biographies

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Beefalo Brigade - The King Cole Ranch had hybrid livestock. Back in the day, they were called...

Sharing struggles and successes is a Sunday...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Cabbage Patch Katie - I called her Cabbage Patch Katie when I had her in my Problems of Democracy...

Oversharing replaces active listening, best to tamp...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Oversharing - I recently jumped a paywall and read that today’s high school graduates are the first...

Sports are driven by instantaneous results, unlike...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Results driven - The medical system is overburdened; that’s why annoying active advocacy is the...

Officials are atop the totem of controlling sports...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Get off my lawn - Milford graciously agreed to host the semifinal girls’ lacrosse game between Cape...

Make my day today, same as yours

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
The eternal present - Three hundred runners, mostly young guns from the Let Me Run clubs of Sussex...

Titles and awards can easily get lost in the...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Wrestlers and runners - The sports of wrestling, cross country and spring track have similar...

Future stars captured as faces along the fence

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Faces along the fence - I saw a face along the fence during the first half of the May 9 girls’...

A goalie personality is no flinch, no fear, just...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Goalie guitar - Mariner sixth-grade goalie Penelope Bohl goes through her pre-game routine getting...

Blue-collar guys run races while lacrosse teams run...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Outside scoop, inside corner - Joseph Goulet, 37, won the Seashore Classic Half Marathon May 4 in 1...

Coaches doing great things across the landscape of...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
The Candy Man can - Dan Candeloro is the head coach of girls’ tennis for the Caesar Rodney Riders...

Unsaturated races leave more room to put your foot...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Polyunsaturated - No human journalist type has covered, photographed and written about more road...

Sports landscape will change with a third middle...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Flux capacitor - Let’s go back to the future. The Frederick Thomas Middle School in Lewes will open...

Cape spring athletes and ambassadors hear Sean Locke...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Morgan’s Message - We sports muppets from Sesame Street by the Sea share the joy of comradeship and...

Cape muppets sing Al Green’s ‘Let’s Stay Together’

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Not a fan - I am the guy who has never left high school sports since I walked into freshman...

Smiley and the Smiler win CoDel marathon titles

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
The irony and the agony - On Sunday morning, I worked the happy trails of the Coastal Delaware...

One-trick Poppy: Falling back to one game a day

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
One-trick Poppy - There are more streamers than the Philly New Year's Day Mummers Parade at most...

Soap opera sports just a proliferation of pundits

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Cognition crazies - Perhaps women's college basketball was better off before the crazies without...

Genetic predisposition for excellence in sports? -...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Logomotion three-balls - Change the haircut, put on multiple pairs of floppy socks, change the TV...

Community impact players Ayers and Lofland leave...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Garland Ayers - Garland died last week, and we are selfishly sad because someone who openly loved...

Preacher man Paulen wins four golds at national...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Bob Paulen - A great guy, athlete, and 86-year-old Yale Doctor of Divinity, Bob lives in downtown...

Bracket-head Fred hits billows of pillows recalling...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Bracket-head Fred - I watched Creighton beat Oregon in double overtime Saturday past midnight, then...

Sports stories fun to tell but harder to write and...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Telling stories - A lyric from the Tracy Chapman song, “Telling Stories,” released in 2000: “There...

Italian guys win Shamrock Shuffle races

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Italian stallions - The Shamrock Shuffle 5K and 10-Miler races on St. Patrick’s Day inside Cape...

Smile and seize an exquisite spring day; later you...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Smiling faces - I strafed spring practices at Cape March 13, with 4 p.m. temperatures...

Lucky Leprechaun 5K a majestic small-town showcase

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Squall and squawk - A total of 500 runners endured a 20-minute dark cloud, but there was no whining...

Vision Quest: seeing and assessing the sports world...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Vision Quest - Cape wrestling grappled at Sussex Tech Feb. 7, when the Ravens put a scare into the...

Blanket coverage of championship wrestling from the...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Blanket coverage - I was Pop Pop in the paddock last weekend, contagiously sick sitting under a...

Hundreds of athletes show up for first week of...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
We talkin’ practice - More than 100 boys and girls showed up on the first day of spring track...

Wrestling fans cheer for underdogs and upsets

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Upset specials - The Henlopen Conference wrestling finals Feb. 24 at Sussex Central’s...

Unsung is not unappreciated

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Noah Diamond - “Sweet Caroline” is a song by Neil Diamond that inspired a new generation of fans...

Seasoned sports fans can hang tough all day long

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Hang tough - Parents, players, sportswriters and all connected cousins, uncles and aunts...

Gaining wisdom while losing perspective seems like a...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Gaining wisdom, losing perspective - I have always been wise beyond my years, but I’ve...

Super Bowl Sunday is a placation vacation and power...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Boomer or bigot - I avoided all pregame run-ups to the Super Bowl then watched the longest game...

Wrestling culture remains strong in downstate Delaware

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Hate the bite - “Don’t hate the black. Don’t hate the white. If you get bit, just hate the bite...

Dogs on the run are fun until you trip over one

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Bully for you - My exact same age running friend Leo Hannigan, 77, was finishing the Run to the...

Matside Muppets bring a softer side to sometimes...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Matside Muppets - Cape wrestling’s 38-25 win over Caesar Rodney Jan. 31 followed 20 middle school...

Sports are jargonistic language takes on different...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Hard charging - It just made me laugh because the phrase "bull in a china shop" aptly describes the...

NFL Championship Weekend best watched on mute

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Insulting intelligences - Speaking of sports, how many hours of programming do we need as a runup...

Linemen for Life make for good chiropractors

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Dr. Devin Miller - Devin Miller, a lineman for life, played for Cape and Wesley, a gifted 6-foot-5-...

The best is behind you; the better is in front

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Simply the best - Remembering people at their best is a credo I follow as a columnist when...

The portal is passed down, enticing younger players...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Your first mistake - There is no space between assessment and action for the prime-time athlete...

Two sports in the same season was old-school Cape

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Six-sport athletes - Randy Johnson, Cape Class of 1977, lived on School Lane off Savannah Road in...

Reading the lips of the fans in the stands

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
He dropped it! - I thought I was ambivalent as to the outcome of the Indianapolis Colts...

Stoop culture from Brooklyn to Philly is about...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Stoop culture - Spawned from the steps of Brooklyn and Philly swim storytelling and clever joke...

Pop Tart and the Mad Stork from Cape’s Class of 1999

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Pop Tarts Bowl - Played Dec. 28 in Orlando, Fla., and won by Kansas State 28-19 over N.C...