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
Monday, April 13, 2020
Column HR280
Danger in success
From Day One the Old Dart Coach has exalted what the Professional Dart Corporation has done for darts.
During a recent phone conversation, a longtime force in darts said, “I never would have believed what has happened and where the sport is today.” He was spot …
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Howie Reed's Column
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Column HR278
Drivel
This is not an April Fools effort. Sad but true.
With sports locked down tighter than a Scotchman’s wallet the Old Dart Coach will revert to writing about nothing or, as the late Bill Nicoll Sr. would say, “You write drivel.”
Darts currently is deader than Kelsey’s reproductive …
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Howie Reed's Column
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Column 587
Seal Boy is REAL – and now throws darts, in the Philippines!
It’s true what they say, “Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.”
When I was a kid, I was a swimmer, a pretty fast swimmer. My time for the 100 fly (52.6 – short course – in …
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Dartoid's Column
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Column HR278
http://dartoidsworld.net/?p=5943&preview=trueCoronavirus and a Great White attack!
The edict came down from on high (translation: from the Most Honorable Editor) that the Old Dart Coach must prepare a darting column this week. But the Most Honorable One had a ground rule…
“You may not mention the coronavirus or any boring …
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Howie Reed's Column