People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

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200 young kids cuckoo for clinics on Sunday morning

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Runners and gunners - Cold winds were blowing over Champions and Legends Stadiums at Cape Sunday...

Pop Pop knocks uncle out of the ring everyday

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
The Leaf - Sportswriter Dick Dougherty called Our Lady of Grace grammar school basketball player...

Ironies and agonies sprinkled with hilarities

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Kool and the Gang - A state championship celebration brunch was held at the Baywood Greens banquet...

People you don’t know are never surprised to see you

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Hover like a mother - Susan and I rolled north through Hockessin to West Grove, Pa.,...

Lucky Leprechaun 5K has more locals than a little bit

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Three-hundred pounders - Some 300 athletes pounded the pavement in Milton Sunday morning for the...

Cape girls’ basketball is 56-10 over last three seasons

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Fifty years - It will be 50 years next girls’ basketball season since Cape won a state championship...

Plaques in places no one ever sees unless invited or...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Housekeeping - The wrestling season ended Feb. 26. The gym is broken down. Mats are rolled up, with...

Uncanny Maney leads off spring after closing out...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Lead-off girl - I popped onto the Cape track Tuesday for some spring sports photos. Flushed from...

Reaching across wrestling history tying Cape...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Embracing the past - I saw the Brittingham boys, Eugene and Kevin, roll into the Cape Big...

Time to doff the masks and put the masked marvels to...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Strange rangers - The Lone Ranger loses his uniqueness if all riders in the posse are masked and...

Past and present converge at Henlopen Wrestling...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Convergence - “Planets are spinning in space, may as well enjoy the race. Isn’t it a lovely ride...

Decision to not to renew JD Maull’s contract is...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Goners - Coaching contracts are sometimes not renewed, and there are no “just cause”...

Cape goes Captain Crunch, winning four championships

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Crunch of Cape sports champions - The long weekend started Thursday with the boys’ and...

Blue and the Britts roll into Cape wrestling match

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Blue rolls into wrestling match - “I haven’t been to a Cape wrestling match in 40 years,” said...

Seasons wind down as the intensity cranks up

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Everyday people - “I love everyday people.” - Sly Stone. I am immersed inside the wrestling culture...

Vaughn Trammel selected for Delaware Afro American...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Cuzzie - Vaughn Trammel, a 1976 Cape graduate and multi-sport raw athlete built for speed and power...

Tony Hazzard’s smile and style powered Cape’s Little...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Heaven in the house - Cape’s Little Big House was heaven for Tony Hazzard. Back in the day, there...

Adjusting sports lineups in your head is exhausting

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Run but can’t hide - Flashback to 1985: I’m coaching Cape track. We are an unbeaten team with 30...

Deebo Samuel snapped Saturday like Debo Lister on...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Deebo dogs Packers - Talk is profusely and endlessly complimentary for quarterbacks Joe Burrow of...

Seeing the landscape as a kaleidoscope of color hues

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Identity politics - “ Identity politics is a political approach wherein people of a particular...

Shut out from Silver Spring Grapple at the Brook...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Attack Dog Me - I went through channels like a manatee for all seasons hoping for permission to...

Turkey plays the trumpet as fans in the stands go...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Trumpet solo - Josh Turek, Cape senior all-state jazz band lead trumpet, brought an excited crowd...

Cape’s vaccinated run at Collegeville High School...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Tracksters and Vaxers - Cape brought close to full boys’ and girls’ teams to the Collegeville High...

Horn sections of college bands make it rain; wear a...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Born to Run - Running continues to be the No. 1 participation sport at Sesame Street by the Sea and...

Goats like company, none want to be the Goat

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Dos cabras - No real goat wants to be the goat. Cape runner Katie Kuhlman lives on a farm with her...

School year trumps calendar year for sports fans

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Minimize to maximize - Monday night sitting at my 27-inch iMac, I was following the Cape girls...

Gifted a book on running, so sat down and read it...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Gifted a book - Daughter-in-law Liza gifted me a book for Christmas, “The Incomplete Book of...

Seaford High gym will be named after Ben Sirman

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
The Ben Pen - The Seaford School District Board of Education has voted to name the Seaford...

Beast of the East is a meat grinder

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Banged up at the Beast - The Beast of the East Invitational wrestling tournament at the...

Staying in your lane for two laps is too long

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Dumb, don’t like it - I have worked my entire life around teenagers, some of whom are now 60 years...

Hike it, buster! Mask mandates a morass of muddled...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Hike it, buster - A year-and-a-half ago during Pandemic 1, I was standing outside the HomeGoods...

George Edwards was street smart and puppy dog soft

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Love and happiness old school - George Edwards passed away last week. He was on the 1979 Cape state...

Wild weekend of sports participation

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Erik-Stephane - Cape and Swarthmore graduate in neuroscience Erik-Stephane Stancofski, 22, ran “...

Fans in the stands and showtime for sports rocks the...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Mats come down, Seahawks lift off - Sussex Academy brought its startup wrestling team to Cape...

Goodbye Girl Ann Grunert waves hello at Turkey Trot 5K

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Goodbye Girl - Ann Grunert is the executive director at Special Olympics Delaware and is retiring...

At 50, coach Chris Mattioni can write down and take...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Matty Dome - Cape head wrestling coach Chris Mattioni won the school’s first state championship in...

Alia Marshall tips the balance as Northwestern beats...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Keep the tip - Say “tip drill,” and most sports fans think football and interception. But the...

Foreign players on American rosters is the real...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
The foreign factor - The Final Four of Division I college field hockey begins this Friday, Nov. 19...

Cowbell kids and woot-woot women

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Rogue photos - The Coastal Delaware Running Festival was held over two days this past weekend, and...

Jim Powell, a life from sidelines to between the...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Between the lines - Jim Powell passed Oct. 31 at the age of 87. Jim was a former football coach and...

Trophies are the space junk of the digital age

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Land of lost trophies - Trophies are the space junk of the digital age. Cape has 52 years’ worth of...

Sports sidelines are friends central like a Quaker...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Make it, take it - The sidelines of sports prior to competitive games is friends central for me, a...

‘Whatever I feel like I wanna do, gosh’

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Top eliminator - Tyler Muse, 28, is an elite runner and, I assume, an elite fifth-grade math...

It’s not about the place, but more about the race

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Two-way player - I was stuck between stop and go ready to capture the start of the girls’ race at...

B Mack breaks the Boardwalk banner held by Jane and...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Boardwalk banner - The Tommy 10 5K on the Rehoboth Boardwalk Sunday morning enjoyed a surge in same...

Ten low-bridging bulldogs fronting Cape athletes

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Ten low-bridging bulldogs - A young boy was low-bridged by a playful bulldog named Brutus – a...

Friday Night Lights at Cape brings out all the muppets

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Healthy home games - Cape Henlopen rocks a spirited atmosphere at Friday night home football games...

Photos on the fly at Sandhill Fields cross country meet

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
I love the flower girls - It was Senior Day for Cape cross country at Sandhill Fields in Georgetown...

Third-party selfie with Awesome Izzy, my new...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Third-Party Selfie - I asked JV field hockey player Isabella Fuscellaro to join me during the...

Compassionate toughness – the leadership of a coach...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Street fight - Smyrna field hockey, under coach Loveita Moffitt, brings a fierce, no-back-down...

I’m a bonded Blue Hen, a member of the club

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Blue Hen Club - I once asked former Delaware quarterback Scott Reihm if I was real Delaware. I have...

Darby Dog has left the yard and human friends are lost

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Ring! Ring! “Fredman, is your dog lost?” “No, he knows where he is. Dog’s don’t get lost, they just...

Young men who inspire us at Crushin Cancer 5K

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Ryan Ennis - I didn’t know I knew Ryan Ennis until I saw him Sunday at the Paradise Grill Crushin...

Clarke Brothers getting it done from abstract art to...

3 years ago
Clarke Brothers - Brandon and Tres Clarke are Cape graduates; their mom Renee Kenner was a Cape...

Dan the Photog Man grounded down and rubberized with...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Dan got plowed - Friday night, Nov. 14, 2014, at Sussex Tech for first round of playoffs. Cape...

Blended Morgan, Bolander families run the Cannonball...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Universities represented - The blended families of Morgans and Bolanders connected through the late...

Tracking athletes who ‘spit the hook’ is fair game

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Horse Power - “We’ll raise up our glasses against evil forces, singing, Whiskey for my men, and...

Slow and steady wins the race, blessed with a smile...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Blessed - Kathleen Gallagher, 63, passed me last Saturday at the Summer’s End 5K. She was running a...

Shoes bought 40 years ago have raced from...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Forty-year-old shoes - Jack Huxtable, 83, a Cornell graduate, had a career in the foreign service...

All team members should dress for state tournaments

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Dem da rules - I’m more than willing to declare a rule dumb if that is my belief but nevertheless...