Friday, December 2, 2011
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Eddie Norman – Darts Ambassador
When I read Frau Charis Mutschler’s hervorragend recent interview with Eddie Norman for Global Darts I immediately sent off a message asking if I could reprint the interview at Dartoid’s World. To say I was pleased to receive her okay would be an understatement……
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Column 420
Jerry Van Loan – Does Darts and America Proud
Fanned (and rightly so) by the Old Dart Coach, Howie Reed, there’s been a bit of banter in recent weeks (although hardly enough) about the World Cup and finagling by Olly Croft, Roy Price and possibly outgoing American Darts Organization …
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Dartoid's ColumnSunday, October 2, 2011
Column 419
Who are we?
In the Year 2000, according to a survey conducted by the American Darts Organization (ADO) the average dart player in this country was 38 years old, so I guess you and I are now about 50. In my case (and the Old Dart Coach’s) this is …
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Dartoid's ColumnThursday, September 1, 2011
Column 418
Darts Wanderlust
“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 glories of exploration. At that …
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Monday, August 1, 2011
Column 417
Steel-tip ain’t no Olympic shoo-in – there’s (plastic) competition!
They call him the “Dragon” and he’s a former world champion. He has basked in the glory of his ‘sport,’ one that some describe as “just the right mix of skill and intellect.” Growing older and with a family, he …
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Dartoid's ColumnThursday, July 14, 2011
Column 416
The 2011 Soft Tip World Championship, Hong Kong
For years Dartoid’s World has made the case that the center of the darts universe has been shifting.
Now it has.
I have written that the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) should wake up and smell the noodles, that it should take …
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Friday, July 1, 2011
Column 415
Scoring for Show, Doubles for Dough. Bobby George’s Darts Lingo.
Okay, I admit it. I don’t understand the British. I don’t understand a fookin’ thing they say. I’ve tried. Honest I have. Now I’ve even read a book that’s supposed to explain it all. Ain’t sure it helped a …
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Column 414
A long overdue apology to Dave “Boy” Green
After a decade of hesitation (which I now regret) I attended my first Chicken COOP Open (the 25th anniversary of the tournament) in Noel, Missouri in 2006. I had an outstanding time, met hundreds of terrific people, witnessed an outpouring of …
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Sunday, May 1, 2011
Column 413
Mr. Rat EXPOSED! Erdogan Camelback SPEAKS!
In 2006, after months of vigorously tracking the elusive Mr. Rat – the seer of darts seers, the prognosticator of darts prognosticators – through an intermediary (the former Caroline Sams) I finally prevailed and secured the Great One’s agreement to respond to the …
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Column 412
Who really is the Old Dart Coach?
As you read these words the Old Dart Coach, Howie Reed, is en route to Thailand…
The country will never be the same.
In a few days he will meet up with his long-time friend David Brook, former Chief Executive of Federation …
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