People in Sports

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Cilento gets credit for making a decision and taking...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Sportsmanship is a concept easily spoken but often elusive when put to the test. Both Sussex Tech...

The winning touchdown was a penalty but not called

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
With a few minutes left in Saturday’s Cape football season at Smyrna, I asked the down-marker guy...

The best social groups are the ones thrown together...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I don’t mean to be negative, but it’s in my blood. I am universal donor guy so I am frequently...

For some kids the school family is the best family...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I announced the senior cheerleaders, managers and football players before the game last Friday...

The real wild card in the field hockey tourney will...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I would have walked to Philly from Lewes for the parade if they had come back from a 3-1 deficit,...

Someday in my future I’ll be rocking to a beat only...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
A Fredman original sports column has appeared each week in the resort region uninterrupted and the...

Cape’s undefeated field hockey team looks blue-light...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Cape’s undefeated varsity field hockey team looked blue-light fast Wednesday night at Legends...

Everywhere I go to play or work, things are being...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Holy Toledo! Aunt Rose dropped 25 pounds and has just registered on the bathroom scale at 349 and...

I’m thinking about covering the game as a Giant Juggalo

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I would rather take a beating than be stuck in the post-party Philly bar screaming into dead spaces...

Words can have a myriad of meanings

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
A crazy weekend in sports where a University of Connecticut football cornerback is stabbed outside...

For a half a million I’d play middle linebacker...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Cross country is the easiest of sports to score. There are seven runners per team, a runner gets...

My job in life is to pay attention

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Three of the four divisional series in baseball were sweeps - only the Phillies and Rockies are...

I am a conduit of uninvited criticisms and counter...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
The Phillies are fun when they win, but that bullpen will bite them because it is just empty of...

It seems to me like riff-raff is driving the policy

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Sussex Tech has a “side out” policy at home football games. If you want to visit the other side of...

My Chico, sure as heck, isn’t doing any oil burner laps

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Why do 1,000 people get up early on a rain-driven Sunday morning and drive to Milton to run in a...

A hockey hotbed in Sussex

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Last Tuesday night at Legends Stadium “hockey was in the house!” Two of the state’s best teams,...

There was commotion in the ocean as 2,500 competed

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
There was commotion in the ocean last weekend as two days of triathlons attracted more than 2,500...

The game was a happening; someday the Hornets are...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Scores of people, regardless of college affiliation, just wanted to see Delaware State at Delaware...

Community concern is often a referendum on character

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Brian Tappan, Cape student and lacrosse player, suffered a serious spinal injury after an ATV...

How good would Cape football have been with all...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
There’s one thing we can learn from a fat sporting dog. The more you toss them food the more...

How about a midnight bike tour through rough...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
More Philly fans “down here” than Baltimore or Washington, but the truth is most are fans of Eagles...

Real guy kickoff weekend coming up

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
A laptop and two high-definition flat screens are the minimum required to follow football and...

We just built a new high school, so why are we...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
There has been no “blow back” from my column going full-bore super-soaker Shawala on a boosters...

Second Chance Vick may send quarterback A.J. Feeley...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Eagles fourth-team quarterback A.J. Feeley, now 32 years old, passed for 5,428 yards and 54...

Who is in charge and responsible for students at a...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Boneheaded is the word I’m trying to avoid but it is the only word left for me to match with field...

Throw A-Rod out of baseball or let Pete Rose into...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Andrew Williams, a 32-year-old fit and sober young man, lives in Lewes and teaches and coaches at...

You’ll hear terms like ‘bragging rights’ being...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
On Saturday, Sept. 19, Delaware State will play the University of Delaware in Newark, the first-...

Michael Vick cleans up better than a battered...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Staying loyal when times are tough is like keeping a secret on the promise, “Certainly, I won’t...

I could scatter 11 hits over five innings for that...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Jamie Moyer sat in the Chicago dugout looking like a sad sack while staring at his cleats. He...

We can take your job anytime we want for whatever...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I got this email from former Cape cross country and track coach Pat Pollock last week and thought I...

Here’s another good role model story for young athletes

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Todd Herremans and Juqua Parker, a pair of Eagle defensive starters, were pulled over a few days...

Boosters may not be the root, but Roberts still was...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Back it down, Fredboy! If you can’t offend your friends once in a while, what good are you as a...

I’m soap boxing here, but I owe a certain loyalty to...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
There is the entire road racing phenomenol - triathlons and other endurance events that attract...

Do small states engage in the smallest arguments?

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
The PIAA, the governing body for scholastic sports in the state of Pennsylvania, decided to move...

In sports, fairness isn’t part of that quadratic...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
There ain’t no justice in sports and if sports truly prepares a person for life - the microcosm...

Released into the greater human zoo filled with bad...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Last Sunday morning I sat stoned in the front seat of my 4-Runner sweating out residual morphine...

So what does waterboarding have to do with sports?

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
What does waterboarding have to do with sports? Are you serious? Years ago John the Blacksmith and...

That’s what most guys do because we’re always ready...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Tim Stauffer was the fourth pick in the 2003 Major League draft chosen by the San Diego Padres. The...

Funerals are easy compared to saving the life of a...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
My good friend Dave Kergaard is going on five weeks past hip replacement surgery - his second - and...

Do you know the difference between book smart and...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I have to find out from the Bagel Buddha Dave Vitella that Tyler Townsend has signed a minor league...

I was riding the bike because old athletes never die...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Last Tuesday morning I drove past the valet staff dressed in red and black by the west wing...

A decorated track star chased a gator through the...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
The 14th annual Bill Degnan 5K race attracted 110 runners last Sunday morning, June 28. Tim...

We lasted seven before being kicked off for breaches...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Sixteen-year-old Kameron Chandler, a student athlete and dynamic personality with natural...

I am hoping Bobby can be put back together

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
There should be a rule that anyone who yells, “Get in the hole!” after a professional golfer tees...

I was having flashbacks to the days of vintage uniforms

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Gold Coach Mike Tkach screamed “Heavy package!” during the Gold team scrimmage last Wednesday night...

Just duck if you see a Pittsburgh transplant headed...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
There are no cool clothes for big guys, which is why I wear double X Under Armour every day except...

The trick is to use the dork in all of us the first...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Great artists don’t paint every day and deep thinkers mostly cogitate and vegetate because, just...

The walk of life is the journey we all take together

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Last Saturday morning, June 6, the Great Strides walk and 5K to raise awareness and funds for...

Athletes need to be held to the higher ultimate...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Athletes on sports teams know everything about each other including who parties during the season...

I know exactly what it’s like to be the other guy

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Mark Petitgout is the 29-year-old younger brother of former NFL offensive lineman and first-round...

Finally, some information readers might find useful

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Summer sports camps may be fun, especially for empty nest parents still in their prime, but they...

Teams don’t need to be in that position

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
The Cape lacrosse girls beat St. Andrew’s last Thursday night and went into a diving dog pile of...

True sportsmanship is just the essence of some athletes

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
DIAA awards a sportsmanship trophy to member schools that comply with certain criteria with...

The riff-raff posse stays indoors when the sun is...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
The Saturday DIAA state track meet was four team titles contested each over 18 events with all...

A few snapshots of athletes I meet in my travels

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
This column is devoted to images on my sports beat captured with a long lens with no staging or...

No coach enjoys compromising a commitment to excellence

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Ray Jackson, a former Delaware Titan, Little League star and Cape center fielder, is still playing...

His job is to help good kids out of bad situations

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I am inclined to write a sentence on Cape’s intervention specialist like - “Otis Blackburn is a...

I always considered myself a bad technique coach

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Still photography freezes bad form in the sport of track where technique trumps everything that isn...

They don’t need some remote perspective draped over...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Are you serious? - Jacqui Ritter was the honorary starter for last Friday’s Autism Awareness Day,...

Parade story only mildly amusing

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Last Saturday morning I was the guy taking pictures at a Little League parade even though my...