People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

Email Fredman at fredman@capegazette.com

Cape’s Austin Elliott verbally commits to UNC

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Verbal commitment - Cape baseball player Austin Elliott , who just completed his sophomore season,...

Sunday morning sea of sports diversity is better...

8 years ago
Let’s get fired up - I love my diversified life, nestled inside my diversified country, and all...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Bagging the bracket, the best earned trophy for a...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Situational toughness - The Cape wrestling team placed third out of 16 teams last weekend at the...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Playing one for the team is a novel way to help...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
No debt for success - There is no I in team, but there is a me, and the goal is to win as long as “...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Fun with friends along the rails of competition

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Fun along the fence - I worked the rails at Wednesday night’s field hockey game at the University...
People in Sports

Dragging a chain up and down the football sidelines...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Double-leg takedown - I can’t get air, but I don’t need oxygen. I had just limped onto the Smyrna...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Standards that slide are more fun than rigid rules...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
We talkin’ Praxis, man - I never did figure out tests and measurements of other human beings, and I...
People in Sports

Cape field hockey and soccer ready for Championship...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Super Tuesday - Cape Henlopen field hockey and soccer will play for Henlopen Conference...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

That vibration in my pocket better not be your mom...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Get in the hole! Perhaps the lamest of all sports fans is the guy who screams "get in the hole...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Sports and politics blend like a Tutti-Frutti Smoothie

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Sports and politics - Celebrities in sports as well as sportswriters are expected to play in their...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Chirping and chattering and the cardinal rules of...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Cardiac yak yak - The cyber wireless updates transmitted a certain chirpiness from the Cape at...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Mumbling into a microphone defeats the purpose of...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Mumbling out loud - I must admit I do it; I didn’t always, but I do now. What is said I’m saying to...
People in Sports

College academics and athletics a system out of phase

Dave Frederick
10 years ago
Academic disconnect - There is no better feeling than switching on the light of learning inside...
People In Sports

Failing with intelligence takes lots of negative energy

Dave Frederick
10 years ago
Too cool for school - A celebrated high school athlete has to work at failing off a team in just...
People In Sports

A proliferation of pigskin pundits - time to cut the...

Dave Frederick
10 years ago
Describe and analyze - Thursday nights through Monday nights, I am blitzed and blown out, not from...

Cape hockey ready to ‘go on and git’ another state...

Dave Frederick
10 years ago
Bedrock - I was researching the University of New Haven Chargers’ website to verify when Jimmy...
People In Sports

Cape goes from Cave to Bob from Little-to-Big House

Dave Frederick
10 years ago
Stuffed Cabbage - I stood in line at Woodbridge Feb. 28 waiting to get into The Cave to watch a...
People In Sports

We talking craniums, collisions and concussions

Dave Frederick
11 years ago
Boys to blockheads - Fewer high school boys are electing to play football, and that trend has been...
People In Sports

Glazed highways shut down Atlanta again

Dave Frederick
11 years ago
How now snow plow - Listen up, you critical snow cows of the western world: The ice event in...
People In Sports

Some coaches could use a little coaching up

Dave Frederick
11 years ago
Breaking bad - I was never an “Old Yeller” when coaching; it just never fit my style, nor was I a...

The Blame Game: Sports fans always looking for...

Dave Frederick
12 years ago
Tough sledding - The Cape girls' basketball team lost to Padua at home Saturday afternoon 63-46...

Don't play like you practice! Play better on game day!

Dave Frederick
12 years ago
The adrenaline bounce - All players think they are show up/step up, game day tough, but many are...

Adult public display of rude behavior carries...

Dave Frederick
12 years ago
Word bombs - Remember when pet owners closed up a house and fogged it for fleas? This was back...

Allie Yeager gets hat trick but no hat in 6-0 win...

Dave Frederick
12 years ago
Allie Yeager got her first career hat trick but no hat - what up? - Sept. 21 at Cape as the field...
People In Sports

Brian Westbrook, running back and horse enthusiast,...

Dave Frederick
12 years ago
Tough darts, Ace! - The Cape Henlopen Dart League will have a rules meeting Tuesday, Sept. 4, at...
People In Sports

Football guys older than Gatorade and before Rubbermaid

Dave Frederick
12 years ago
Post Gator guys - Vaughn Trammell and Gilbert Maull sat on the Cape Gator after Cape’s Saturday...

Bradshaw's reluctant roll into end zone was oddly...

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
The rule is clear - The Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association rule governing non- school...

Who really comes home for homecoming?

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
Assault with a deadly - Let's kick it real. No one comes home for homecoming, and if you're out of...
People In Sports

Keep looking in the rear-view mirror and risk...

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
Because we care - The field hockey season is young and already five Henlopen Conference teams -...
People In Sports

Phillies fans all living with a hernia after three...

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
Implosion therapy - If a person is afraid of dogs, lock him or her in a garage filled with friendly...
People In Sports

Solution to deception and misdirection: Tackle...

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
Artist and athlete - “She’s got everything she needs, she’s an artist, she don’t look back. She can...

Town ball of the 1980s was simply the best

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
Bad and nationwide - Isabella "Izzie" Delario of Rehoboth, who will be entering her junior year at...

Get gaunt and go faster

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
Sonja Friend - I am lucky to have taught, coached and written about a host of student athletes over...

Young athletes move like calicos on catnip

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
Bob Paulen is a 74-year-old track athlete, and let's face it, he is a skinny guy and I’m not; he...

Arthur Lodge great choice for Chris Short Award

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
Nicknames - Years ago at the awards presentation following the Rehoboth Avenue Mile, the 19-and-...

Fatty and Fred are unsung heroes of Cape lacrosse

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
The question keeps being posed: Should Delaware scholastic sports separate the private schools from...

Old school basketball and barbecue Saturday morning...

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
The weather breaks and I become color conflicted. I’m sure it’s a disorder or lingering...

The arrogance of excellence

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
The arrogance of excellence: A little EPO and a drop of testosterone on the tongue, perhaps an...

If you want to be caddy, buy a golf bag

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
Here’s what I’m saying: if you’re interested in being caddy, go buy yourself a golf bag. I saw the...

Don't believe in celebrities, just celebrations

People in Sports
13 years ago
I don’t believe in celebrities but I’m all about celebrations. Last Friday morning I dropped in on...

Cape community will miss two impact players in Harry...

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
Harry Moore was part of an all-star Cape school board in the 1970s that included Jim Reed, Jesse...

Flower child Meg Bartley snaps like carnivorous plant

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
The flower child of Cape sports Meg Bartley scored her 100th career goal in the early moments of...

Baseball looks for signature win after a washed-out...

13 years ago
I often tell athletes and their sports agents who double as parents not to speak of their personal...

Undefeated Cape, Caesar Rodney meet in tennis...

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
The Cape softball team lost 13-0 in 4 1/2 innings at Caravel April 2 as the undefeated defending...

Spring sports move out of dead zone and into real play

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
Stan Iwamoto and Pat Niland never back down on their enthusiasm for coaching young female athletes...

Spring sports begin at Cape

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
I just found Easter on the calendar and had no idea it was as late as April 24, but then again Ash...

Cape basketball will play in semifinals

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
Concord High School is a welcoming place for a visiting team. That is a tribute to athletic...

Oscars prove needy people

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
The Oscars prove to me that no matter how rich and famous they are, many people are so needy and...

We are all muppets with multiple personalities

13 years ago
Chrissy Beckman, a Cape graduate and Cape Gazette corresponding photojournalist, is majoring in...
Intelligence test should be part of screening for coaches

Biggest decision for coach is which offense to use

Dave Frederick
13 years ago
All the football I continue to watch and write about and have coached and was a player I would have...

Good teachers make 100 correct decisions every day

13 years ago
There is an undercurrent of anti-education that runs through every community in America. Many...

Young wrestlers become double arm bar assassins

14 years ago
Long ago in a far-away galaxy I dragged a son to the Young Rough Riders wrestling tournament at...

Lackluster and dedication never appear...

14 years ago
Sports have always been my life but I’m not a sporty type of guy, just a sportswriter and social...

Steeler Nation disappointment is entertainment

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
I overheard two guys in the 24/7 Fitness locker room talking about the best ways to put on weight...

Students’ role: Holler and get behind their team

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
The good sportsmanship code is required reading before every basketball game, but most fans aren’t...

Tomlin stares down games and never wavers

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
I began an objective, analytical discussion with avid Steelers fan Ralph Bayko because he asked me...

Just because you are right doesn’t mean you win

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
The future is now and now has left the building. There is no now because everything in the universe...

This year’s showdown is CR, Central and Smyrna

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
I sat in the bleachers at Seaford last Tuesday night, a minority man in every sense of the word -...

Without chemistry, good coaches have losing seasons

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
What in the name of Pistol Pete has happened to downstate boys’ basketball? I am reminded of the...

Sussex Tech is there for students and athletes

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Real Sussex County people never knock on a front door when visiting a friend. It’s always around...