
Cape plays at Caesar Rodney Thursday, Nov.

The DIAA volleyball bracket is published, which is 24 teams deep. “Don’t go breaking my heart,” but it seems the sports world is forever wobbling out of balance.īracketology and cosmetology - Do sports fans get gussied up before heading out to state tournament games? Some do, sporting vibrant school colors and perhaps accessorizing their own heads, but all that glitter ain’t blue and gold. Many football teams add another 20 people to the sidelines when coaches, managers, scorers/statisticians and athletic trainers are included. 11, for their multi-sport athletes.ĭeaf ears - I have gone column side and to social media to question the DIAA policies on roster limitations, which in field hockey is 22, twice the number of starting players, while in football it is 60, which is seven more than are activated on Sundays in the NFL. 8, so wrestling and basketball coaches of six teams in the tier 1, 2 and 3 championships will be waiting until Thursday, Dec. See what happens when you sit physical education and sports management master’s degree holders around a conference table drinking coffee? Winter sports practices begin Friday, Nov. 20 there will be six games generating three winners to join the field of five, making an eight-team tournament. All 11 schools in Tier 3 make the playoffs, with the top 5 getting a bye. Tier 3A District 1 teams are Appoquinimink, Hodgson, Middletown, Salesianum, St. Cape Henlopen is in Tier 3A District 2 along with Caesar Rodney, Dover, Smyrna and Sussex Central. Say it ain’t so, yo, but you would be wrong. “Some people even train.”įootball rules - I don’t mean the rules of football, but football as the sport that rules all others. He always asked me, “What is with all the runners down where you live? What do those people do when they’re not racing?” “Race, recover and rudder,” I told Tom. My late brother Tom was intrigued by all the running photos I posted on Facebook. Tyler is signed up to run the 14th Rehoboth Seashore Marathon Saturday, Dec. Maura Linde-Knestout of Sykesville, Md., was the first woman finisher, running 36:12.

Tyler, of Bel Air, Md., won the Bay Bridge Run Sunday, with 10,113 runners chasing him, in a time of 30:45, which is 4:58 per mile for 6.2 miles. On Saturday at the Seashore Striders Sea Witch Half Marathon, Tyler ran the entire distance with Martin Rodriguez, except for one second, winning the race 1:21:36.8 to 1:21:37.8 “I just needed a long training run today because I’m racing the Bay Bridge 10K Run ,” Tyler said. Top eliminator - Tyler Muse, 28, is an elite runner and, I assume, an elite fifth-grade math teacher who works in the Salisbury system.
