Thursday, March17, 2022
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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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Howie Reed's Column
Monday, February 14, 2022
Column HR328
Old Dart Coach apologize? Not likely. PS: Crisket sucks!
One might recall Irving Berlin’s The Song is Ended, but the Melody Lingers On when thinking about the recent Seniors World Championship. (Editor’s note: The Old Dart Coach quotes a lot of old song titles and lyrics because he doesn’t …
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Howie Reed's Column
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Column HR327
Welcome back, geezers!
In 1940, Thomas Wolfe’s novel, You Can’t Go Home Again, was published. That premise was tested twice last week in the UK. The Old Dart Coach investigates.
Night one of the Premier League arrived in Cardiff, Wales, with locals Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton.
Clayton …
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Monday, February 7, 2022
Column 610
A Tribute to Romy – by Mrs. Dartoid
Twelve years is a long time by any standard. It can see a child from prepubescence through adulthood, a young adult from college through marriage and a family of their own.
Twelve years by measures of the heart can be a …
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Dartoid's Column
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Column HR326
The PDC says… WELCOME LADIES!
The ODC was spot-on when he predicted the PDC would soon come up with some kind of TV ladies’ event. That time has arrived. On July 24th on a summer’s afternoon eight ladies will take the stage at the Winter Gardens (Blackpool). They will …
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