People in Sports

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It was a bad playoff week for the flying mascots

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Back in fall 1965 while living in the 10th-floor corner dorm room of Johnson Hall on the campus of...

Grand Mom Rose says if it tastes good, then eat it

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
I can remember years ago a triathlon organizer reminding me to use the full title of the race when...

Adios Andy - never let the fat guy call the plays

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Mike Mayock, a 52-year-old former NFL safety with the Giants, was doing his first NFL game as a...

Remembering a fan who made the game more fun

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Mary Bragg liked everyone, as far as I could tell, except for high school basketball officials. She...

Cape’s Young nearing school record for wrestling wins

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
The Frisco Flyers will be heading out of Philly and Baltimore this Thursday, Jan. 6, having booked...

As Dylan says “People are crazy and times are strange”

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
With all the football I have coached and played and continue to watch and write about, I would have...

If you don’t have credibility, you aren’t getting...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Chris Bosch is a left-handed 6-foot-11 center for the Miami Heat, and against the Lakers he was...

Always expecting the Cape boys basketball team to win

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
I have to be honest - actually no one does - but every time the Cape boys’ basketball team walks...

Cruising the countryside with a loaded camera

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
I cruise the countryside with a loaded camera looking for faces to focus on. Last Saturday at the...

The stronger the spirit the harder someone was going...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
I played at a Catholic high school where sport was a religion. I would never take to the basketball...

Overusing ‘huge’ is a gargantuanly humongous mistake

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
I wish sports commentators would back down from the word “huge” and find another sports synonym...

Cape students are back to make noise and support...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Talent must meet opportunity for success to occur. I see that happen in sports all the time when...

If anyone ever fires me I’m firing back with momma...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Football coach Al Lavan was fired by Delaware State University last week, which at best seemed a...

Last thing I drop when things get weird is the gym

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Older-generation types send email forwards lamenting the good old day, but on the sports side of...

Want to know what I write down? It’s a trade secret

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
The indoor sports season is more upon me than upon us as no nonrelated person goes to more games at...

I’m 10 imploded buildings older than anyone I know

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Buildings do not have human characteristics. They are devoid of flesh and blood. They do not have...

The dark drama of technicalities wiped out by fate

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
The darkest hour is just before the dawn is a proverb traced back 300 years and that’s all you need...

High school can be harsh or - as the kids say - just...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
The Baylor Bears women’s basketball team led powerhouse Connecticut Tuesday night 56-48 with 6:42...

Shy players spoke of friendship and love and a...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
The tracks of tears rolled down the young cheeks of Cape football players as they knelt in the end...

Forty-three Delawareans compete in the New York City...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Forty-five thousand runners, striders, sliders, gliders, rollers, bowlers and strollers - along...

I’m pretty sure I will eventually land on crazy

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
During a 28-year career as a community columnist-granddaddy, Fredman has been a commentator,...

Reasonable people don’t like jumping into agitated...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
I love Logan Pavlik and her seven siblings and would have expected nothing less than her response...

No one wanted to lose this game and no one did

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
I took pictures at Monday afternoon’s Beacon versus Sussex Academy field hockey game played at...

Current Phils fans are very young, match color of...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
I call it borderline personality disorder while holding a bat. I call Ryan Howard a “good kid” and...

I’m a galloping moron who should be shut down

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
I am the first to admit that, as a sports parent and sportswriter and coach all at the same time, I...

If you don’t know nobody, then you ain’t nobody

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Delaware State Homecoming is like any other gathering of people in a small state. Just cruise...

Not many people come home for homecoming weekend

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Friday night is Homecoming at Cape, and one thing is for certain. Not many people come home...

I just want a cheap screwdriver; I’m not launching a...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Let’s get wired up! Cultures are changed by the young because they are quicker and more inventive,...

School sports schedule juggling has more than one...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
There is more than one version of the story, but the bottom line is Indian River will not be...

A little advice for event directors: you gotta to...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
The first year the Punkin Chunkin moved west of Harbeson, a 7-mile Saturday morning traffic backup...

Written words don’t change; they just keep sitting...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
I don’t stand behind anything I write but rather prefer to stand in front. Turn and run and the...

See the world outside while making decisions to...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Cultural anthropologists and sports psychologists not to mention physiologists who can...

Load up on coins, bring your friends; tastes like...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Charlie Brown looked at Linus carrying his contorted cat upside down looking placidly peaceful and...

If I was the man that you wanted, I would not be the...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Lyle Lovett has a lyric, “If I was the man that you wanted, I would not be the man that I am.” I am...

Beideman to be awarded the Governor’s Outstanding...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Warren Beideman, the Coach B of local Cape Henlopen High School soccer and the Henlopen Soccer Club...

Way cool mascot names and overcompensating camera...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Last Saturday an unusual cast of mascots visited Delaware with the Jackrabbits of South Dakota...

Scoring: Combo of vision, finesse, quickness and bad...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
I have earned the right to infiltrate a Cape Henlopen High School practice but if a coach were to...

It all comes down to great athletes making plays

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
I camped out on dog garage couch early Sunday to watch Delaware State play Southern on ESPN. Three...

I guarantee performers in uniform are ‘real’ athletes

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
I was talking to Cape cheerleading assistant coach Molly Lingo at a practice last Wednesday night,...

I could write a chapter on every player who was there

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
So long ago it was Jim Wilson’s first year as superintendent. He was wearing a three-piece, rust-...

If a player goes rogue, teammates should bring him back

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Last Saturday’s soccer play day at Kirkwood Aug. 21 ended with a Viking civil war as Cape and St...

You must be crazy; ain’t nobody going into no hot...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
There is something funny about a hot-dog shirt. Under Armour, Adidas and Nike are all safely cool...

How can you not recognize a gold-medal winner?

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
The Phillies were on ESPN Wednesday night versus the Giants with the broadcast being handled by...

You can check out anytime you like but you can never...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Last Thursday, Aug. 12, I attended my first DIAA monthly board meeting because I was curious to see...

Is the air up there thinner or am I just a bumbling...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
I write about sports at all levels and have done so forever. I‘m what’s called a real professional...

Age is no factor when it comes to being fit for races

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Mike Wollard is 83 with bad knees and a World War II veteran cap he’s never seen without. He was in...

What’s the point of working out when you can work?

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
What is the essential difference between work and working out? I’d say that work is done to achieve...

No game comes down to a single play; it just seems...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Elect to play sports and be prepared to be kneed in the groin, punched in the mouth, whacked in the...

Read something twice and if I don’t get it, it was...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
I am a liberal arts-educated, easygoing sports guy with an incredible depth of diverse knowledge,...

Sometimes good stories happen to lucky storytellers

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
I always told my students that good stories happen to good storytellers but they said, “No, you are...

A great goal cage whack will ring my worthy bell

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Coach KK is the real deal. The former Kathleen Kochmansky, now Kathleen Fluharty, was a three-time...

If an idiom is about to fly out of your mouth, cover...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Grandmom Rose looked balefully at me as I flashed my first driver’s license and said, “As you...

The relaxation of rules should benefit athletes by...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
The rules of engagement have been relaxed for coach contacts with athletes in the summer and it’s...

Flashbacks and hallucinations of former Cape...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Eleanor Davis of Ellicott City, Md., celebrated her 85th birthday last Sunday by rolling around her...

Larry was a colorful character who kept it real

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Larry McLaughlin lived on my street since we both went country, and before that outside of Philly...

Those who study history are condemned to remember it?

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Those who study history are condemned to remember it; the good news is in these modern millennium...

Sit back, have friends over, watch from a safe...

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Tim Cisco is from upper central Pennsylvania and most days locally you will find him up a tree with...

He was simply the best, better than all the rest

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
Last Sunday at Cape Henlopen High School was the 15th running of the Bill Degnan 5K. Bill was the...

The summer sports scene is making my head spin and hum

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
My head is rotating like planet Earth; sometimes the light of sports knowledge is shining brightly...

Park on any paved surface and you will be just fine

Dave Frederick
14 years ago
The second turf field at Cape is getting set up for carpet bombing, but lights and permanent first-...