People in Sports

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How do you punish kids who don’t care?

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
You just have to be related to travel 30 miles to watch an away girls soccer game of two 40-minute...

Runner Bob Sanders says bare feet prevent injury

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Bob Sanders set a record Sunday, April 12, at the Cape Henlopen Educational Foundation 10K by...

Don’t put the blame on McDonald’s or pizza or hoagies

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
April 14 was the golden anniversary of McDonald’s and they are still rocking introducing new...

Marathoners are compelled to conquer the distance

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
A marathon is 26.2 miles, and it is a standard tens of thousands of amateur runners have felt...

Mixed messages: if you say no correlation you could...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Shot and discus thrower D.J. Reed wanted to run the high hurdles Monday, April 6, at Caesar Rodney...

State too small for so much mistrust

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Last Saturday’s baseball game at Cape versus visiting A.I. duPont was well attended by fans from...

Here’s the long and short of hip surgery

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Back in 1977-78 I coached Cape cross country and track to a pair of state championships and ran the...

Running up a sand dune overweight, hungry is the...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
RUN FOR FUN - An April Fools guess the distance race run Sunday, March 29, is odd enough and that...

What a great idea...in an Alfred Hitchcock kind of way

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Feed me information. And while you’re at it feed me free food. I cover professional and college...

Why not piggyback on energy of youth?

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Adults over 30 are mostly resistant to change especially when it’s driven by those too young and...

I’m just mad I didn’t get to rock a Greene Turtle T...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
If I hear the words “Greene Turtle” one more time as I’m standing at a lacrosse game, I am going to...

Field hockey fans retreat from Little Big House battle

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Local interest groups, in particular the field hockey lobbies, have backed down from their attempts...

Ignominious ending just the beginning

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Americans die in full-powered slippery bathrooms every morning. “Ignominious endings,” my...

Power of love propels Smyrna; Cape's love train has...

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I noticed something really good going on at a Smyrna basketball game two years ago and wrote about...

Fishing and flying both safe, but losing can be big

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
I have seen that look in the eyes of people who fish for real with gold-plated reels. It’s all...

Cape girls, boys, Christian boys head to tourney

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
The Cape girls basketball team will host the Padua Pandas Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. in the first...

All Cape Henlopen all the time, except at the polls

Dave Frederick
15 years ago
Board member Spencer Brittingham tapped me on the shoulder in the early moments of the third...

News flash: I wear two-figure shirts for a six...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Retired Cape physics teacher John Sarik sees and hears a world most people ignore. Lately, I’ve...

We had to invent ADD to account for adult slowness...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
PowerPoint presentations are so yesterday. And that’s because technology keeps moving and improving...

You hear it ‘down here in Delaware’ anywhere there’s...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
I took a picture of a 4-year-old waiting for her mother to finish last Saturday’s Valentine’s Day...

Last time I checked, the game was about character

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Medical experts recently reported that there is a small window of opportunity for the certified-...

Who is crazier, hockey fathers or wrestling mothers?

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
At a home wrestling match versus Smyrna Friday, Feb. 6, I heard a man yell “hamster head,” and I...

Who is waxing the alleys, causing the Hornets to slip?

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
The Delaware State Lady Keglers posted wins over No. 1 Vanderbilt and No. 2 Nebraska, then slipped...

I moved in for the interview because I’m all about...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
I was the photographer in a one-size-doesn’t-fit-me molded plastic chair last Friday night taking...

Community service without a court sentence

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
“Mammals Mammals … their names are called, they raise a paw.” – “Mammals” by They Might Be...

Some stories behind the DSBA banquet

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Amelia and John Knarr operate Elite Fitness on the second floor of the Stein building on the...

It’s a different planet he hails from when a...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
People already get it, you don’t need me to tell you. Mark D’Ambrogi, the Vikings’ head lacrosse...

Why so aggressive? What happened to the form tackle?

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
I watch too much professional football and as I observe defensive backs with arms too big launching...

I can bust a move myself, but only when no one is...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Red Lion Christian beat the Ferris School for Boys 68-56 Tuesday night, Jan. 13, to go 10-1 on the...

It’s a leap of faith to have these two groups on the...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Five hundred marathon runners on a brutally frigid and windy Saturday morning hitting the wall at...

State tourney appearance puts the goblins to bed

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Basketball season is about to begin, which can only mean that Tony Hazzard is about to bust out his...

Do you know what to do when your pocket begins to...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Dan Dierdorf said of Eli Manning: “One of the nicest things you can say about a quarterback is that...

I have never aspired to anything of the year

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
The Connecticut College Camels play in the small college NESCAC up in snowy New England with the...

The big old bear was soft of heart and his players...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Coach Dave McDowell won his first game as a head coach in 1996 and was given a signed game ball by...

Every Friday night is another opportunity to get crazy

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Cape waited for the court last Saturday night as the tall and pony-tailed Ursuline Red Raider...

Soundman was asleep at the wheel

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
“The thing coach [John] Harbaugh likes about his rookie quarterback [Joe] Flacco is that he’s...

If I find them, I may go O.J. and ask for their return

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
When Nate Carnevale sent home the game winner against Sussex Tech for a 2-1 soccer victory, I...

The best magic of all

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Magic Jack Noel is a fit little bugger and a great guy who ran his first race last Sunday as a 70-...

Barrel racing, new shoes, midnight madness, sets of...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Poco is a good old mare, a trail horse who turned out to be a nice barrel horse. Hannah Beck, a...

I’m going to get a brick so I can cry every time I...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Suddenly a bunch of big men start screaming, “Unbalanced!” and I start looking for Charles Manson...

If the gates of heaven squeak, Doney will let St....

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Dick Doney, retired Cape guidance counselor and my friend in Lewes from day one, passed away last...

‘When the going gets weird the weird turn pro’

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Sarah Palin dropped the first puck of the season in Philly last Saturday night before the Rangers...

I’ve threatened to write a manual for athletes, coaches

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
I was a little surprised to find myself writing a hockey story and the consecutive words Red Lion...

Simpson belongs in jail because he is truly dangerous

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
High school kids rarely use the word crazy or even insane, preferring a phrase like, “O.J. Simpson...

I’m the Rainman of sports crowd counters

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
I am the radar brain traffic controller of the local sports scene. I know what balls are in the air...

A comedian on a personal attack commits the worst of...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Solidly 15 or 20 years ago, give or take two or three, the Renaissance Rednecks convoyed out of...

Substitution pattern is a mystery to players and fans

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
The Sussex Academy of Arts and Sciences was at Beacon Middle School last Monday for a soccer game...

I have no desire to shoot cannons or Punkin Chunkin...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
The organized fitness activity numbers are up but the level of fitness is way off. Maybe there is a...

How can 33 million people watch the Eagles lose to...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Ryan “Pop Tart” Whibley is hosting baseball workouts for anyone in grades 6–12 at the high school...

I had that vision, so I said no to the job

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
I must admit after watching Redskins head coach Jim Zorn in his first press conference following a...

Only those who don’t work hard should be assigned...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Two weeks ago there was a picture in People in Sports of my nephew Mike Frederick with Cape’s two...

I was the worst football official in the history of...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Dick Vermeil is 72 years old and still as unrelentingly energetic as he was when he led the Eagles...

People who live here have no shortage of weather...

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
In September 1975 on a horrendously stormy night I stood in a Lewes building on Sussex Drive known...

Turning down free food is just plain rude

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
We all know that diet and exercise work but are boring and that really skinny people are...

Not a hint of what the coach is talking about

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
The Stephan Decatur defense was battling to keep Cape out of the end zone at last Wednesday night’s...

Things don’t always add up like your checking account

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
There is an old refrigerator in the converted closet that serves now as the Cape coaching office,...

Cape will need all the kinetic energy it can generate

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
I nicknamed him “Stealth” because Cape physics teacher John Hilton flies so fast off the radar...

Athletes make up names for each other in summer sports

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
I needed no stimulus to alert and remind me that two days earlier I made a stupid mistake. I was...

Viewers will legitimize anything as a sport

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
If you were an aging, rescued-from-the-pound “sorta-spaniel” with a dash of poodle thrown in just...

Summer Olympics 2008: Let’s get quizzical!

Dave Frederick
16 years ago
Women’s gymnastics is mostly freakish to watch and in the steroid era it is certainly different to...