Monday, February 21, 2011
Column 405
The Diary of an Unhealthy Dart Throwing Slug. Week Three of Nine.
February 14, 2011
Today is Valentine’s Day and I am traveling. I’m on a US Airways flight as I write – headed to Bethesda and then Ukfield, East Sussex for some business and darts. Yesterday I gave …
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Sunday, February 13, 2011
Column 404
The Diary of an Unhealthy Dart Throwing Slug. Week Two of Nine.
February 8, 2011
This morning I received an e-mail from Jerry “Umby” Umberger, one of the most feared darts players (and best bar joke tellers) ever to step to the line in America.
Umby retired from the …
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Monday, February 7, 2011
Column 403
The Diary of an Unhealthy Dart Throwing Slug. Week One of Nine.
January 30, 2011
I weighed 203 this morning.
Since graduating high school in 1971 where I was a nationally ranked swimmer (52.6 for the 100 fly – but my dogs can now beat me across our pool), …
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Column 402
Speaking of Darts, Penises and Women….
Today’s Dartoid’s World issue is a joke but not of the sort readers have grown accustom to finding in this space. It’s not about any of the screwy things that are found out and about the wacky world of our sport.
In fact, …
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Column 401
Drag Queens, Darts and the Old Dart Coach in Key West
In the last installment of Dartoid’s World I found myself in Ulaanbatar, Mongolia – the coldest national capital on the planet. Somewhere in the countryside yaks wandered the frozen tundra while I pounded the board with new-found friends …
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Column 400
Darts in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
When I got to thinking about checking out the darts scene in Mongolia I e-mailed some friends hoping somebody might join me for the adventure. The responses were classic but none more so than that from Karl Hartman in Korea…
Where in the HECK is …
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Dartoid's ColumnMonday, November 1, 2010
Column 399
The “No Baloney” Maloney Reunion Charity Dart Tournament
They don’t call her “No Baloney” for nothin’…
She was the best there ever was…
It was in an Orlando pub in 1979 where Kathy Maloney picked up her first dart. Endless hours of practice later and after a run of …
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Friday, October 1, 2010
Column 398
From the Big Bang to the Bikini Patrick Chaplin’s new book HAS IT ALL!
He’s been called eccentric. (He once made Page 3 of The Sun, a space generally reserved for the most serious bazoombas on the planet – so some people may have a point.)
Bobby George …
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Column 397
Give Bromberg a Break – we ALL do Dumb Shit!
There’s an unforgettable scene in the comedy Hangover when the bachelor party guys are seated, not of their own will, in Mike Tyson’s living room. They’ve been “invited” by a couple of the champ’s bodyguards to return the fighter’s …
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Dartoid's ColumnWednesday, September 1, 2010
Column 396
“Beware the Vortex!”
That was the message my old traveling buddy, Richard Sobol, sent me as I prepared to head to a business retreat in the Coconino Forest at an old cabin nestled among the stunning red and orange rock sandstone formations that surround Sedona, Arizona.
“Beware the Vortex!”…
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