Some New Jersey and Pennsylvania high school teams will be permitted to resume practices or games as early as next week as governors in those states announced changes to COVID-19 protocols.
Howard RB Kevin Ignudo, Smyrna DT/TE Elijah Statham, and Sussex Central LB Alton Dennis won the major awards on the 2020 DIFCA All-State Football Teams.
Newark's two-year run in Division 2 and the Blue Hen Conference's Flight B will come to an end based upon enrollment numbers announced by the Delaware Department of Education.
They might not have been the consensus picks for the championship games, but we are left with two intriguing matchups for the DIAA Football Championships Saturday in Dover.
There will be a split-admission doubleheader for the DIAA Football Championships on Saturday.
The DIAA selection process will probably remain as controversial as anything over the past three months, but the time to listen to complaining is over for now, as the focus shifts to the field for the DIAA Football Semifinals.
Governor John Carney's recent decision to "pause" youth sports in Delaware will lead to shorter winter seasons, but even more uncertain endings.
Smyrna and Archmere earned the top seeds for the DIAA Football Tournaments after a lengthy discussion by the committee Sunday morning.
This time next week, we'll be counting down the hours until semifinal weekend in Delaware, but there remain so many unknowns.
Caesar Rodney alum Justin Strickland remembered his coach Mike Schonewolf as someone who could use colorful, non-colorful, language on the practice field.
DIAA's decision to hold the Cross Country State Championships without spectators has led DNREC to close Killens Pond State Park near Felton on Saturday to the general public.
There is plenty to be thankful on this Thanksgiving weekend, and hopefully you are reading this in good health, and ready for another pivotal week in the chase for the 2020 DIAA Football Playoffs, with a five-day sampler on tap.
The first nine meetings of the "First State Cup" have taken place in Newark, but Delaware State's Alumni Stadium will host the University of Delaware this spring.
Delaware's high school sports are scheduled to begin practices on Monday, November 30, but a cloud of uncertainty surrounds many of their futures.
Another tough week for Delaware high school football, as six games are off the schedule, just another reminder that those teams that can play should savor the opportunity this weekend.
Delaware will play host to its first PGA Tour event as Wilmington Country Club has been named the host of the 2022 BMW Championship.
Pre-K through first grade students made their transition from virtual-only to hybrid last week, and Brandywine superintendent Lincoln Hohler said as he walked the halls of Mount Pleasant Elementary School, he found joy.
The 7-week sprint that is the 2020 DIAA Football season races past the midway mark this weekend, and sorting out the 8 teams that will play in mid-December will start to take form this weekend.
The four-year journey of transforming Baynard Stadium concludes Friday night as Salesianum hosts Smyrna in the first game at Rocco Abessinio Stadium.
The DIAA announced this week that games affected by COVID postponements are no-contests and not forfeits, that could be very important for Division 2 tournament contenders.
Facing a shortage of competitive games and an earlier potential lawsuit from Salesianum, Delaware high school football might look a lot different next fall.
Wilmington Friends has forfeit Friday's football game at Saint Mark's, as the school is struggling to keep a healthy roster.
Delaware is one of two states, along with Michigan, that are requiring mask use for most of its high school athletes, but one winter sport is trying to crack that trend.
The goal is 80%, but sometimes achieving it isn't pretty.
Sussex Tech will close their campus on Thursday and Friday, including not playing their football game this weekend, due to a third COVID-19 positive test this week.
Delaware football learned their six Colonial Athletic Association games that will be part of their eight-game spring schedule.
Woodbridge High School will revert to a remote learning model until at least November 9, 2020, and the football team will lose three games, after the school reported multiple positive COVID-19 cases among staff members and students.
Boston Scott made an over-the-shoulder catch on an 18-yard touchdown pass from Carson Wentz with 40 seconds left to complete a 22-21 win for the Philadelphia Eagles over the New York Giants.
It took us a while to get here, there will be some masks, there may be some empty stands, but high school football returns to Delaware on Friday.
William Penn High School's volleyball and boys soccer teams will not play for two weeks after a confirmed COVID-19 case was associated with the school.
Alexis Howerin was warming up for a Wesley field hockey game last October, when a normal self-check turned into a potentially life-saving moment.
High school sports in Delaware began their abbreviated and delayed campaigns on Monday, but some parents have been left behind closed doors.
San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl hero John Taylor will be one of 12 inductees in the 2021 class of the Delaware Afro American Sports Hall of Fame.
Salesianum football will, in fact, have a full 7-game schedule after two Flight A football teams agreed to play the Sals this season.
For a tenuous 20 minutes Thursday night, the Delaware high school fall sports season was on thin ice.
BPG Sports has been slapped with a $15,000 fine, marking the second time the organization has been fined for allegedly not following coronavirus restrictions.Â
Salesianum added two more football games to their schedule on Wednesday, but that's still not enough for their program.
Salesianum football is sitting on just three scheduled games 11 days from the start of the football season, one they are potentially thinking about freezing if they can't get more games on the schedule.
19 members of the University of Delaware swimming and diving teams have been suspended for allegedly violating Newark's gathering limits connected to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"At this time, the best I can tell Salesianum is --Â I wish you a lot of luck in trying to reach out to folks in Pennsylvania, and potentially there could be some movement out of the next football committee meeting."
In a year of COVID-19 related modifications in the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association, their football committee is making few changes to their postseason format.
The Sports Medicine Advisory Committee of the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association took a stand on those looking to avoid the mandatory mask rule.
Less than three weeks remain before the start of the Delaware high school fall season, and many groups still are wondering how the mandatory mask rule will be enforced.
When the DIAA Board of Directors voted September 28 as the date to commence fall sports in Delaware, it wasn't the top choice of the state's heads of school, but as the first [electric] whistle prepares to sound, plenty of questions remain.
'We all have the same goal in mind. We all want the student-athletes back on the fields and courts, but we want to know what rules are there?"
It's unclear whether there was actually a smell inside the room where the Appoquinimink School Board held a workshop Wednesday, but one board member let loose on the recent decision to allow fall sports to begin next week in Delaware.
