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Dover Downs harness racing results/entries

Dover Downs Results Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024   1st - Clm 7500 Pace $6,000 7-Feherty (Ti Tetrick) 3.00 2.20 2.10 1-Trey's Charlie (Ge Napolitano Jr)   5.00 2.80 …
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It's back to the Super Bowl for three Blue Hens with the Chiefs

NEWARK — Brett Veach always seemed to want to be involved in bigger things. He dreamed of playing football at Notre Dame before playing at Delaware. And when he was coach Andy …
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Thousands participate in Lewes Polar Bear Plunge to benefit Special Olympics Delaware

REHOBOTH BEACH – Over four thousand people took to the water Saturday afternoon for the 33 rd Lewes Polar Bear Plunge, which benefits Special Olympics Delaware.    Special …
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High school football: Polytech run is special for two sets of brothers

WOODSIDE — The Deacon brothers didn’t plan to arrive at the Conrad quarterback at the exact same moment. But there they were, the pair of Polytech High linebackers, both charging at …
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Gelof hopes Major League call-up just the start of good things

DOVER — Here it was, the biggest phone call of Zack Gelof’s baseball life, and he missed it. By the time he woke up in his parents’ Rehoboth Beach home and checked his phone, …
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DOVER — Lance Scott has been a part of two champion NASCAR Cup Series teams since moving from his hometown of Millsboro to Charlotte, North Carolina, the hotbed of racing, in …
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Time was, getting back to nature or engaging in conservation and preservation was the domain of hunters and fishers, who worked the land, kept up traditions and passed along knowledge of the Earth.
It’s his own personal wildlife refuge — a 10-by-10-foot room with one door and no windows. The spot is Don Fountain’s eye on the world, packed with all things turkey.
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Activist questions Delaware schools' sports rules

LEWES — One of the central arguments Kathy Carpenter makes toward the Delaware Inter scholastic Athletics Association’s rules for student athletes is: Has a board ever determined your …

Women to race the Nathan of Dorchester on the Choptank

CAMBRIDGE – Sail-powered workboats (skipjacks, bugeyes, log canoes) started racing in 1872 when local watermen took their boats and crews out on shakedown sails before the start of the oyster …
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Lewes 5K to benefit monument project honoring fallen veterans

The latest step in preserving Kristen Giordano’s memory of her son and other military members who died during service comes Aug. 19.

Nasty conditions should give way to good fishing weekend in Delaware

It almost seems fitting that the first day of summer would be under nor’easter conditions. The coastline is taking a little pounding. Beachcombing will be great this weekend. Conditions will …
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Photo Gallery: Race day at Dover

DOVER - With the rainy conditions finally giving way to nice weather on Monday, the NASCAR Cup Series Wurth 400 was finally able to be held a day late at Dover Motor Speedway. Photographer Kathyn …
DOVER  - While the wet weather has put a damper on the action at Dover Motor Speedway on Sunday, there was  plenty going on at the track on Saturday. Photographer Kathy Willes was there …
DOVER — Young drivers spend the early parts of their careers just trying to reach NASCAR’s Cup Series. But, once they make it, some of them still like to go back and compete in …
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