Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Column HR247
The World Championship is days away and the PDC has checked all but one box!
This is the traditional holiday column in which the Old Dart Coach kicks things off by singing “Deck the Hall with balls from Holly,” one of the great Christmas tunes. Too many people in …
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Column HR246
Darts and Farts!
To quote the Chairman of the Board, the late Frank Sinatra, “And now, the end is near…”
Yes, it’s the end of another exciting year of darts and beer. Only the World Championships remain on the PDC Tour. Beware: the ODC has laid down an oche …
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Howie Reed's Column
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Column HR245
Tommy Cox – a giant in a game that way too often reward midgets
In just days, the United States will be celebrating Thanksgiving Day. In case you’re ever asked to appear on Jeopardy, India, Canada, Liberia, Norfolk Island and Netherlands also have a Thanksgivings Day although not …
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Howie Reed's Column
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Column HR244
The World Cup, Wade and Wacky Tobacky
The Old Dart Coach is a fan of Ben Franklin, a Colony Founding Father (despite going outside in the rain to fly a kite with an iron house key tied to its tail). History reports that he got an electric shock – …
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Howie Reed's Column
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Column 566
In the days before DartConnect
In the old days before DartConnect, someone named Sarah Parsons chiseled into a block of stone what became revered as the Ten Commandments for Keeping Score.
Scorekeepers SHALL NOT:
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Dartoid's Column
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