Thursday, January 5, 2017
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CONGRATULATIONS JOHN PART!
Massive CONGRATULATIONS are due three-times world champion John Part, who just the other night was inducted into the PDC Hall of Fame.
I last spent time with John at the CDC finals in Woodland Hills in September. But I recall so many other occasions, from Las …
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Tuesday, January 3, 2017
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It is TRUE!
Her name is Yvonne Whitfield. Until a chance meeting a couple of years ago I hadn’t thought of her, let alone seen her, since 1974. She recognized me. I don’t know how – I look nothing like I did all those years ago.
We dated a …
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Friday, December 23, 2016
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Some excitement. Some disappointments.
As readers may have gathered, Dartoid’s World experienced another hack of some kind November. All is now resolved and we’re back to normal, or abnormal, depending on your perspective. The hack has been traced to either the Russians or the ADO.
Of course, all attention …
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Monday, October 31, 2016
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It’s Halloween! Or Punky Night, if you live in Somerset, England!
This evening, as we in America toss Tootsie Rolls into sacks thrust at us by sticky little children cleverly disguised as sticky little children in sheets, across the pond in Somerset, the Brits are handing out goodies to …
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Thursday, October 20, 2016
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Please help cute Katie run again!
If you’re a regular reader of this column you will be aware that only occasionally does Dartoid yield his opinionated (some say disgusting) persona to his creator. In fact, over the past 20 years and through 500+ columns about darts Dartoid has stepped …
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Dartoid and I have been friends since the early days of the old North American Open. I have watched him compete and count myself among the many who enjoy reading his column. But more than any of his columns this little book struck a cord with me. While I doubt that the ideas, or any …
The Diary of an Unhealthy Dart Throwing Slug Read More »
Dartoid's BooksThis is Dartoid’s most recent and tiniest work of darts fiction and we should indeed be grateful for the latter. I can solemnly attest that it is, in my very humble opinion, quite the most historically inaccurate and stupid thing that anyone has ever put to paper. Despite his advance apologies to his God, and …
The Outrageous and Completely Untrue History of the Sport of Darts Read More »
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More than anyone, Dartoid has found a way to capture the spirit of the ever-evolving sport of darts – from its roots amidst the smoke and camaraderie of the pub to the spotlight of the professional stage where darts is a business and the very best can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. …
2008 – The Year in Darts Read More »
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You have got to love a book that has references in its early pages to Ernest Hemingway, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Primo Carnera and the immortal Joe Louis. As someone who has for nearly thirty years tried to elucidate my passion for tungsten projection by reference to modern literature, pop music, the Bible and the …
It’s A Funny Game, Darts, Life Read More »
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Saturday, October 1, 2016
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Clinton or Trump: Who do you pick for your darts team?
With the debates on and the presidential election about to enter the homestretch, and with pretty much 100 percent of the electorate on record as despising one or the other of the two major party candidates, now is …
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