Friday, May 1, 2015
Column 487
Fantasy Darts. It’s free. Easy to enter. Top prize is $500.
There are dart players, people who think they are dart players, and people – whatever their niche – who in their unique and powerful way have brought the sport to the masses.
Promoters.
When one contemplates the most …
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Column 486
Ah, the stupidity!
I thought I’d heard it all when in 2011 an off-duty cop, Dayle Long, was charged with murder after he allegedly shot a “friend” he was playing darts with at a bar in Murrieta, California. According to press at the time here’s how it went down……
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Friday, April 10, 2015
Column 485
Dr. Darts appears to support outlandish Inca-darts theory!
While (or is it “whilst”?) my April 1 column (Did the Incas invent darts?) was intended as just a bit of April Foolery, I have since received the following from none other than darts historian extraordinaire, Dr. Patrick Chaplin. Reprinted with …
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Column 484
Did the Incas invent darts?
If you are a regular follower of this column, in addition to being certifiably whacked you will be aware that this fall or next spring Stacy Bromberg and I will be traveling to Peru and then Chile to tour Machu Picchu and Easter …
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Sunday, March 1, 2015
Column 483
Jordanian darts fan visits Disneyland
Perhaps you saw the recent New York Times human interest story about multi-billionaire Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and his teenage son, Sa’adah (apparently a darts fan)…
In Amman, the father and son and the rest of their family settled into the comfort …
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Dartoid's ColumnTuesday, February 3, 2015
Column 482
The Outrageous and Completely Untrue History of the Sport of Darts
Genesis
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty; darkness was over the surface of the deep. And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” Then God …
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Sunday, February 1, 2015
Column 481
So what?
Okay, so I’m 60 (plus a little).
I’m not keeping track of time. Really. I don’t care. I DON’T!
It doesn’t bother me. Not a bit.
It DOESN’T!
I feel the same as I did when I was younger.
Sure, some small things are slightly different. That’s …
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Thursday, January 1, 2015
Column 480
New Year’s Resolutions – for the ADO!
How ironic it is that the January 4 release by the ADO of their first financial statement in nearly a decade and a half and the final match of the almost $2 million (about $400,000 to the winner) PDC William Hill World …
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Monday, December 1, 2014
Column 479
Hey, Big Bang Theory: WHAT THE COITUS?!
Any dart player – steel or soft or wood, and even magnetic or lawn or Nerf – that has seen the CBS smash hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory knows (Dartboard! Dartboard!) that the board hanging on roommates Sheldon Cooper’s …
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Saturday, November 1, 2014
Column 478
Mr. Darts Language Person is BAAAACK!
With all the alarm about Ebola recently I suppose it’s not surprising that my e-mail in-box has been pounded by darts folk with questions like, “Do you think the ADO is responsible?”
For the record I do not. At least I don’t think …
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