Thursday, May 9, 2019
Column 572
Shoe for Dart, again!
Ronnie “Rocket” Baxter, who once demolished me repeatedly one evening at CD’s Lounge in Las Vegas, was recently asked in a Facebook post what type of shoe is best for darts.
His answer: trainers. In American lingo that’s tennis shoes.
This may or may not …
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Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Column HR256
Some things are true because they’re true!
As he has want to do, the Old Dart Coach was musing at his humble Hacienda estate. He wrote on April 29, 2019, that “Some things are true because they’re true.”
For example, for sports music May is the best. It starts …
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Monday, April 29, 2019
Column 571
Darts in Hiroshima, Japan
“I’m a travelin’ man, I’ve made a lot of stops all over the world,” cooed Ricky Nelson in 1961. The song was a massive hit, rising to the top of the charts. Teenage girls swooned. Not widely known is that the tune was written for …
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Monday, April 11, 2019
Column HR255
It was a dark and stormy night…
…many years ago, on December 31.
(In truth, it wasn’t “dark and stormy” but in the mid-50s with occasional showers. “Dark and stormy” sounds more literary.)
At Pine Meadows Golf Course in Martinez, California, the New Year’s Eve revelry was slowly taking …
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Monday, April 8, 2019
Column 570
Darts near the River Kwai
If you’re a whistler there are handful of tunes you no doubt have in your repertoire.
While the “top” lists of anything are subjective if you’re a whistler you will agree “The Fishin’ Hole” and “Colonel Bogey March” belong near the apex of any …
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Monday, April 1, 2019
Column HR254
NEWS ALERT times deux!
As all in the world darting universe are aware, the Old Dart Coach is always described as “calm, cool and collected.” It’s possible that Rudyard Kipling was writing about him when he penned, “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing …
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Monday, March 18, 2019
Column HR253
An all-encompassing Darts Hall of Fame… and the DRA is whack-a-doodle!
The Old Dart Coach was recently bemoaning the absence of an all-encompassing Darts Hall of Fame – a place of recognition for all the great darters, not merely those in the separate PDC or USA Halls. (Just to …
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Column 569
Valentines are Fucked (an inappropriate guest column by Jerry Masterson, age 8, that has nothing to do with darts)
Valentines are fucked! And while this sentence may be similar in theme to my previous column, “Kissing Girls is Fucked!” – they are both non-debatable points.
I will now relate …
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Column HR252
To all the ladies: Happy Valentine’s Day!
“Only a publicity stunt,” said former darting great Dr. Linda Batten. Whatever could she be talking about? Was it the PDC’s grand announcement that all Golden Elixir (aka “aiming fluid” – as if the folks in the silly costumes were aiming for …
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Howie Reed's ColumnFriday, February 1, 2019
Column 568
Love letters to the ‘Toid
It’s amazing, but true. I receive fan mail.
For example, the other day I received the following note from someone named Lester. Lester seems to think that I need help walking the fine line between making a point and pissing off the entire fifty …
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