Wednesday, July 27, 2020
Column HR286
World Matchplay wrap-up – and more BLM!
The Old Dart Coach fell off the soapbox last week. Battered and bruised he’s rejoining the fray…
Of course, darts has always required skill, predominantly hand-eye coordination, and stamina – when prodigious amounts of “aiming fluid” and “group tighter” are involved.
But …
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Howie Reed's Column
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Column HR285
Matchplay and Racism?
All sports and those who write about them are part of a circus and “under the big top” today the not invisible “elephant in the ring” is racism.
The definition of racism (which the majority of people surely can’t recite) is prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed …
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Howie Reed's Column
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Column 590
Ant ATTACK!
Some years ago, I threw league darts with a former pro from Houston named Dave “Buddha” Fasnacht. He helped me with my stance and my grip and my mental game. And he gave me some advice that I’ve been trying to follow ever since. According to Buddha …
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Dartoid's Column
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Column HR284
As the Darts World Turns…
The longest daily “soap serial” in the USA was The Guiding Light. The daily program ran for 72 years on radio and television. The Guiding Light is only topped for longevity in the USA by the Grand Ole Opry which started in 1929 …
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Howie Reed's Column
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Column HR283
Rest well with the angels, Dave Kelly
These written efforts to chronicle darts began in the late 1970s when a very nice lady asked a “B” league dart player to do a column for the Northern California Darts Association newsletter. (The lady requests that her name not be used.)…
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Howie Reed's Column
Monday, June 8, 2020
Column 589
Johnny
Mark Twain once described India as a “land of dreams and romance, of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, of splendor and rags, of palaces and hovels… of genii and giants and Aladdin lamps.” Rudyard Kipling wrote of India’s “heat and smells and oils and spices and puffs of …
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Dartoid's Column
Sunday, May 24, 2020
Column 588
Diddling Miss Powell
If you’re at all like me the reason you took French in high school was because the teacher was a hot little number with a sexy voice named Miss Powell. Watching Miss Powell scribble cute little verbs on the black board was pretty special to me …
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Dartoid's Column
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Column HR282
Alright already!
Like most everyone the Old Dart Coach has had it up to here with the coronavirus or Covid-19. Photos of the virus, which looks like a golf ball sprouting mushrooms, appear wherever one looks. As the late Irene Maude Reed would say (using a fake Jewish accent …
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Howie Reed's Column
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Column CM87
Corona Darts!
I had no idea when I returned home from the UK Open in Minehead how radically in a very short time the darts scene all over the world would change. Well, I had a queasy feeling…
I already had that queasy feeling on my journey to Minehead. …
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Charis' Column
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Column HR281
Beware! They walk among us!
With sports in virtual mode until goodness knows when, the Old Dart Coach has to actually do some creative thinking – a task which many, including his Most Honorable Editor, label “impossible.”
The PDC has transformed into virtual group matches called the Unibet Home …
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Howie Reed's Column