Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Column HR337
Chuck Hudson tells it LIKE IT IS!
Golden Age darters have fond memories of the Lakeside Country Cub, Frimley Green. The names of darting greats names roll off the tongue like water over Niagara Falls. This week, the ancient venue plays host to the WDF’s World Championships. Most of …
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Howie Reed's Column
Wednesday, March 31, 2022
Column HR3365
It’s the SOUTH, Y’ALL – but first…
When a Southerner says, “Well, bless your sweet heart” they mean “Shame on you. You are dumber than a fence post turtle.”
FREE ANA: Chuck Hudson, smarter than any fence post turtle, writes: …strange days we live in. A dude can keep …
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Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Column HR335
Darters invade Beach… but first, a FREE ANNA update!
FREE ANNA! As is now widely known, the World Darts Federation has banned Anastasia Dobromyslova from their “We want a World Championship Too” tournament. Their only semi-legitimate “defense” is that they are a member of the Alliance of Independent Members …
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Howie Reed's Column
Friday, March 18, 2022
Column HR334
THE QUEEN ABDICATES!
The fallout from the Old Dart Coach’s effort entitled “DISCRIMINATION!” has been like rain in Seattle – nonstop. Like an earthquake in California the aftershocks are notable and just keep coming.
Just moments before yesterday’s column was posted, Real Dart Fanatics broke the story of Fallon …
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Howie Reed's Column
Thursday, March17, 2022
Column HR332
DISCRIMINATION!
Discrimination should NOT be celebrated, encouraged or expected. This is particularly true in sport where competitors and organizations fly the equality flag, at times to excess. Talk is cheap. Action takes willpower. Discrimination has many sides including race, color and religion – all ugly.
Darts has been hit with …
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Howie Reed's Column
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Column 611
Darts in Red Square (or FUCK YOU, Putin!)
With all that is happening in the world right now (FUCK YOU, Putin!) it seems an appropriate time to revisit the 32 days I spent riding a bike through Russia. It was a pain in the butt. Literally…
What …
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Dartoid's Column
Wednesday, March16, 2022
Column HR332
Here’s to the ladies!
The Old Dart Coach wishes a belated Happy Birthday (#80) to Irish great, John McKenna. The ODC’s first Guinness on St. Patty’s Day will be for John and also Tom Firth. Firth traveled from Dublin to last week’s UK Open. He echoed the Old Dart Coach’s …
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Howie Reed's Column
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Column HR331
Dart God bakes NEW DUTCH TREAT!
Every person who has ever thrown a dart knows there’s a Dart God (aka Tungsten Tillie). It’s the voice that says “Pal (or Palette if female or Whisky Foxtrot Tango if declined to state), this is your day.” A bit fickle, she is …
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Howie Reed's Column
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Column HR330
A plan gone awry
Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote in To a Mouse, “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men. Gang aft a-gley”.
Recently, the Old Dart Coach was a victim as his plans went “a-gley”. The plan? To write a detailed report on the Camellia Classic …
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Howie Reed's Column
Monday, February 21, 2022
Column HR329
PRICE IS RIGHT!
The Old Dart Coach never said, “It is better to be a has-been than a never-was” to those who leveled cheap shots at the senior darters. But Dave Justice did. He was a top player in the Motha country back when paper and feather flights were …
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