Thursday, October 25, 2018
Column HR243
All Hallows Eve
All Hallows Eve. The Old Dart Coach relishes this as one of the best holidays of the year. It’s trick or treaters, little children all dressed up in costumes and adults of the “decline to state culture” doing the same. The ODC doesn’t trick or treat …
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Howie Reed's Column
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Column 565
Do dogs understand darts?
It occurred to me after reading a Dave Barry commentary about whether dogs watch television that it was far past time to address one of the most vital of life’s mysteries. It’s a question that has perplexed the world’s best thinkers ever since the hairy …
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Dartoid's Column
Saturday, October 13, 2018
Column HR242
GO NADS!
In another life the Old Dart Coach was an unremarkable baseball player at Diablo Valley College. “If you can’t do something good do a lot of things average.” With that in mind he played the outfield, first base, warmed up pitchers and threw batting practice. He even …
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Howie Reed's Column
Saturday, September 28, 2018
Column 564
Darts in America – 2000 vs. 2018
According to a survey conducted in the year 2000 by the American Darts Organization the average dart player in this country was 38 years old. This suggests that today on average you and I are about 56. In my case (and the …
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Dartoid's Column
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Column HR241
Paddy Power Champions League of Darts
Many darters in America used to spend Sundays glued to the television screen watching NFL football. Now, there’s another option (one taken by the Old Dart Coach – after beers): watching the PDC on TV/computer. The latest event was the Paddy Power Champions …
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Howie Reed's Column
Monday, September 10, 2018
Column HR240
FREE ADVICE for the BDO, ADO and local leagues
Yes, ‘tis been awhile since we last had the chance to visit and chat about darts, particularly things about which only the Old Dart Coach has interest…
The British Darts Organization has removed the final vestige of its claim to …
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Howie Reed's Column
Monday, August 27, 2018
Column 563
Rest in Peace, John McCain
Tucked away somewhere in the “sweaty hubbub of Vietnam’s capital of Hanoi is an air-conditioned oasis of American military life they call ‘The Ranch.’” According to Newsweek’s chief political correspondent, Howard Fineman, the installation is equipped with “basketball and volleyball courts, clipped lawns, a …
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Dartoid's Column
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Column HR239
It’s a good thing Phil Taylor could count on the Old Dart Coach!
It may surprise some who partake of these efforts that there are people out there in Dartland who have questioned the qualifications of the Old Dart Coach – his bona fides and his “oche cred.” Just …
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Howie Reed's Column
Monday, August 6, 2018
Column 562
Still more darts wanderlust (Cape Town and Bangkok)
“Now when I was a little chap,” recalled Joseph Conrad at the beginning of Heart of Darkness, “I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the …
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Dartoid's Column
Monday, August 6, 2018
Column HR238
World Matchplay – some questions answered, others remain
Sometimes the best laid plans of mice and men – to say nothing of people that write of darts, as they’re too lazy for real work – go astray. As Huey Lewis sang, “This is it.”
The plan for World Matchplay …
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Howie Reed's Column