This 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
Column 524
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 …
Column #524 Clinton or Trump: Who do you pick for your darts team? Read More »
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Thursday, September 9, 2016
Column 523
Solutions
It has been said solutions to the ADO’s woes have not been offered, that only unfair bashing occurs.
This is not so.
And it would seem that ADO president David Hascup, the guy many – at least I – had so much hope in initially has been co-opted …
Column #523 Solutions! Read More »
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Thursday, September 8, 2016
Column 522
ADO Blames Financial Woes on a Dead Guy!
American Darts Organization Communications Officer, Steve “I could singlehandedly change not only the ADO, but darts in this country” Brown (who is either paid or not paid by the ADO – no one will say) has recently published the August 2016 …
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Thursday, September 1, 2016
Column 521
A little bit O’ Seoul
In 1995, some friends and I rode bicycles from Dublin to Moscow. At a clip of about 75 miles a day, the 2,500-mile journey took a month. Two lonely weeks were spent monotonously plodding along the desolate old gulag inmate-built Trans-Siberian Highway. Early on, …
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Monday, August 22, 2016
Column 520
Let’s hope the rumors aren’t true!
We hear it all the time, have for years. Complaints. Excuses. Blaming. And a wish!
There are no professional darters in the USA.
There isn’t any money in the game here.
The country is too big.
Travel is too expensive.
Best of …
Column #520 Let’s hope the rumors aren’t true! Read More »
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Monday, August 1, 2016
Column 519
Darts in Bali
I’m not sure what people expect to find when heading to the Indonesian island of Bali. All I was looking for was the darts…
I connected through Bangkok. In one of the airport bars, I met a pretty, 20-something girl from Portland, Oregon, who’d found a …
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Dartoid's ColumnThursday, July 14, 2016
Column 518
Howie Reed is an AUTHOR!
Here are four well-known facts about Howie Reed: 1) He is a Republican, 2) He loves the ladies, 3) He can drink most anybody under the table, and 4) He throws darts as bad as me.
Given that Howie, aka the Old Dart Coach, …
Column #518 Howie Reed is an AUTHOR! Read More »
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