Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Column 446
180! Fascinating Darts Facts – a Review
Far be it from me to correct Patrick Chaplin, but I must. “Trust me – I’m a doctor,” he writes in the introduction to his newest book, 180! Fascinating Darts Facts.
I’ve read the book twice, circled passages, underlined words, folded …
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Monday, April 1, 2013
Column 445
One Trillion Darts
An article by Jacqueline Leo in The Fiscal Times caught my eye recently. Don’t ask me what I was doing reading The Fiscal Times.
Most of us, wrote Leo, can’t imagine the scope or volume of a million anything, let alone a trillion. For …
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Friday, March 1, 2013
Column 444
A conversation with Tommy Cox
The phone rings. My wife answers. The voice on the line is British.
The caller asks for me. My wife tells him I’m at my office and gives him the number.
A few minutes later my phone rings, but not before my wife reaches …
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Friday, February 1, 2013
Column 442
Eric Bristow was right – Phil Taylor must go!
There’s not a one of us involved in darts, recreational or professional, steel or soft, that wasn’t taught early-on that ours is the sport that “begins and ends with a handshake.” This basic tenant has been the unshakable rock at …
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Column 441
Who Dat? Why Dat? What Dat? Is Dat?
What an end to a year!
What a beginning to the New Year!
It’s been so crazy that even with all the darts – the soft-tip world championship, the PDC world championship, and with that silly little BDO thing about to …
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Sunday, December 2, 2012
Column 440
Come. Travel the World with Dartoid.
That’s been the theme of this column for nearly 20 years. From Congo to Mongolia, Nepal to Borneo, I’ve explored and written about the darts scene in almost 100 countries on six of seven continents. Yes, as Wayne Mardle once observed, I’m a …
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
Column 439
Could it be Brendan Dolan’s fault?
I don’t believe in fate. I don’t accept that it was predetermined by some Supreme Power I’d suck at darts.
What I believe in, or would at least like to, is the “butterfly effect.”
Hence, I believe, or would at least like to, …
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Column 438
It’s time to wake up and smell the plastic!
Thanks to the Horizon Darts (Horizon Darts) ladies, Terry Maness and Melody Foster – two great business women with the smarts to sponsor Darin Young and Stacy Bromberg and the extra smarts, despite my repeated requests and their …
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Column 437
Jelle Klaasen and Larry the Lobster
When in 2011 New York Congressman Anthony Weiner was forced to resign after denying and denying and finally admitting that he sent an actual photograph of his last name to a multiple women, all of America – even those who didn’t receive the …
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Monday, August 13, 2012
Column 436
RIP Sid Waddell
Players and fans alike have been tweeting their sympathies and favorite Sid memories. Wayne Rooney, Piers Morgan and John Prescott are amongst the thousands of people sending messages of condolence.
Borrowed from The Stars of Darts website, below are just a few…
Barry Hearn, PDC Chairman…
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