People in Sports

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Do you feel lucky? Well, do you, Leprechaun?

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Hit the roads running - The sixth annual Lucky Leprechaun 5K blasted off at brunch time March 11 in...

‘The students’ lives are in my hands’

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Head on a swivel - I am always scouting out stories. It comes from writing a column for the last 36...

Derek delivers like Domino’s - a hall of fame...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Derek delivers like Domino’s - Derek Savage, the Doctor of Dunk when he played for Cape, will be...

Fans and Fatheads ready for state tournament...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Chasing the dream - The 2018 DIAA basketball tournaments have launched into the second round, where...

Cape community makes wrestling tournament a success

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Double Downers - My mentor in the sports media world, Dick Dougherty of the Bucks County Courier...

Queen for a Day with my new friends from Delmar

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Queen for a Day - “Testimony with immunity from prosecution” is used by Special Prosecutor Robert...

Princeton is a great school, but Philly trolleys are...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Rock ’em Sock ’em - I’ve been on the sock puppet southside of sports a few times playing on or...

Trooper Tim Wolansky totally locked in for the...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
The Great Wolansky - Master Cpl. Tim Wolansky, dressed in full state trooper uniform, was working...

Hard to track the inexact history of Cape basketball

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Hard to track the inexact - I am not a tracker of details, but I’m good at remembering sports stuff...

The Inclusion Kid Davey is just looking for a match

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
The Inclusion Kid - Grandson Davey with Down syndrome can hang all day at athletic events, and he...

Philly fan base goes full-boat crazy after Super...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Does that make me crazy - The Philly fan base went full-boat Gnarls Barkley Sunday night, taking it...

Watch the players, but remember to see the people

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Bump in the night - A grandmother's tale: “Don’t be afraid of things that go bump in the night.” I...

Inclusion is best when it’s natural and unplanned

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Travels with Fredman - That was going to be the name of my column in 1982, so I could write about...

Milton gym a sacred shrine to the legends of...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Sacred shrine - I was taking photos at Milton Elementary School late Wednesday morning. The theme...

Will Edwards is a behavior manager by day and night

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Good Will Coaching - Will “Stunts” Edwards walked out of Cape in 1987, where he was a gentle 6-foot...

Embrace the good inside your own history in the here...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Tracks of my tears - I was looking through a Rubbermaid bin at some old lax jerseys figuring maybe...

Diggs’ catch-and-run game-winner brings Vikings to...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Good God almighty! Can you Diggs it ? “That did not just happen!” I exclaimed, leaping from the...

Hallways to home: Tony and Bobby in the house

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Byways and hallways - Proper professional decorum, along with no yelling, cheering or coaching, are...

Fame offers no acquired immunity from spontaneous...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Vexing and perplexing - Jameis Winston, the quarterback of the Tampa Bay Bucs, had his Uber App...

Purnell Ayers to join Allen, Bishop and Baird in...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Ayers and Bishop - Those two names from Cape basketball history are always mentioned together, and...

Cape Region a running mecca, a happening of harriers

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Road running - “Meep meep,” there’s an in-house joke at the Cape Gazette: “If there’s a running...

Symmetry and synchronicity the secret of Smyrna...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Smyrna - Equals symmetry and synchronicity. Hovering above the Cape Big House court along the...

Listen, guys, we’re also teaching you how to be...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
My favorite photo - I know nothing about photography, but I do take a lot of pictures and once...

Telling tales at the tailgate, it never gets better...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Hitman and wingmen - Facebook popped this photo on my desktop from 2010 outside Delaware Stadium...

Step on the scale before you weigh in on somebody else

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Get a life - Would you consider weighing in with someone else’s body? What’s the point? It not only...

Connections though sports transcend rivalries

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Father and son - I spoke to Michael Wright when the junior was an eighth-grader at the Milford...

Bad Santa too good to be real

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Bad Santa - Jack Vassalotti, dressed as Bad Santa for the Run with Santa 5K at Cape Henlopen State...

Social network from Lexis-Nexis to Malibu-Matrix

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Full-court friends - Randy Rickards and Ian Robertson are both 6-foot-5. One is black, while the...

Rehoboth Marathon showcases the running mecca of...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Economic impact - The Rehoboth Beach Seashore Marathon, marking its 10th anniversary, handled 3,000...

Rogue racers with a rich tradition

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Winter indoor track - I coached the sport and I know the challenges, from recruiting athletes to...

Let the force be with you, centrifugal and centripetal

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Centrifugal force - Gage Hall, 9, flew around the corner and into the finish chute at the Turkey...

Job interview is a two-way street, a negotiation...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Art of the Deal - Interesting that Donald Trump didn’t physically engage in the writing process for...

Alumni along the fence are the quilt of the community

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Alumni along the fence - State championship game day at Rullo Stadium, Thanksgiving week, the...

Fighting for perspective while fighting for a...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Fighting for perspective - "The race doesn't always go to the fastest man, but sometimes goes to...

Meep! Meep! Elite cross country runners sustain...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Meep! Meep! - Keelin Hays of Tatnall bounded down the trail at Killens Pond State Park at the Cross...

A certain symmetry between Doc and Tom and the child...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Little Joe - I have a younger cousin, Joe Kelly , who is a New Jersey Freeholder and plays the...

Moon waxing not waning, silly rabbits

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Waxing not waning, silly rabbits - A big old moon shone down on Legends Stadium Nov. 2, accenting...

Runners and racers don’t give up position without a...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Better two too late than never - Runners Lizhet Patraca of Indian River and Haylie Cox of Delmar...

Sunday morning rain coming down over wet Sea Witch 5K

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Early morning rain - I looked over Grove Park from the front seat of my 4Runner at 8 a.m., Oct. 29...

A thundering herd is a sound felt but not heard

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Thundering Herds - Some 300 middle school cross country boys rumbled and romped past my camera lens...

Tyler Blades is not a natural-born runner

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Blade Runner - Tyler Blades, 15, looks like a natural-born runner, with his blond hair blowing in...

Cross country strategy is simple - get to the front...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Great strides - There are few Silky Sullivans or Dave Wattles in the sport of cross country. The...

Back in the frame. Back in the game

Dave Frederik
7 years ago
Back in the frame - I ventured out to photograph the Herring Point 5K and 10K Oct. 15. It was my...

Tom Frederick: a Cape kid to the core, his later...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Going home! It’s Homecoming, 1994, Cape versus Milford. Quarterback Tom Frederick drops back and...

Dewey Goes Pink, a day dedicated to somebody and...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Cherry O Baby - I wore a Temple cherry shirt at Dewey Goes Pink Oct. 7. I spent 14 hours combined,...

Friday Homecoming game more about the Saturday dance

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Homecoming - Skip ahead to Saturday, Oct. 20, when Cape is Sussex Central’s Homecoming opponent...

If you see a rhino in the road, you got off one exit...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Peddie School soccer - Cape’s 8-0 public school soccer team from Sussex County will go on a great...

Rules of decorum for pledges, prayers and anthems...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Pledge of Allegiance - Every American and their grandmothers know that prayer and public schools...

Savage and Kobasa inducted into Delaware State...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Hornets Pride - I attended the Delaware State Athletics Hall of Fame banquet Sept. 22 at the Martin...

100 cross country runners sparkle in afternoon...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Simply the best - An afternoon high school cross country meet at the College of Earth, Ocean and...

Jeff Savage going into Hornets Hall of Fame

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
My upended, untenured friend - I won’t be at the Cape football game this Friday night. Instead, I...

Cape hockey walks proudly into season after 2-1 loss...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Balanced and biased - I crossed over a few years back and stopped trying to be an emotionless...

Brothers Wyatt and Whitman run a 5K then pose for...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Child and the Blue Chair - A young boy approached me at the end of the Cannonball 5K Sept. 10, as I...

Sept. 9 cross country festival at Killens Pond to...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Fall foliage - The Lake Forest Invitational cross country festival at Killens Pond this Saturday at...

Saturday morning packed with three Pop Warner games...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
It’s Eclectic! Boogie Woogie - A Cape Vikings Pop Warner tripleheader versus Smyrna at Legends...

Jim Brown, 81, still runs his game between the tackles

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Jim Brown - I walked next to Jim Brown inside the Philadelphia International Airport in 1964, a...

Sundance Run and Swim showcases a diverse array of...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Ocean Atlantic - Swimmers crossed the finish line before runners and biathletes at the Aug. 27...

Prayer more controversial than kneeling during anthem

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Freedom from religion - The national organization Freedom from Religion sent an official letter to...

Hannah and her Caravel sisters with a Cape connection

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Hey, Tracy Jr.! The Caravel field hockey team was leaving Champions Stadium Aug. 19 after playing...

Friends through football share 40 years of memories

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Collick and Cuzzie - On Aug. 17, I snapped a photo of Bill Collick and Vaughn Trammel on the...