Tuesday, December 19
Column HR215
Paul Lim – you did us PROUD. Keep it going!
Aided by copious amounts of Miller Genuine and a nice cigar and to borrow from the Huey Lewis album, Sports: “THIS IS IT” – the ODC’s last column of 2017 (which no doubt will be greeted by cheers from …
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Howie Reed's Column
December 15, 2017
Column 549
The Greatest World Championship Match Ever?
As the PDC world championship moves into full swing it seems worth sharing (from May 2003) a replay of what many believe was the greatest world championship final ever…
In 1999, I sat down in a bar outside of Toronto to interview John Part. …
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Dartoid's ColumnAs one of my blues harp classmates, Richard Verrochi, put it, “I came to Clarksdale to do a deal with the Devil and found out the Devil was Jon Gindick – and he wasn’t dealin’.”
Gindick, as most of you dart people will not know, is one of the premier blues harmonica instructors in the …
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Dartoid's Column
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Column 547
Ohio State vs. Michigan. And DARTS!
The other day I posted my prediction (104 – 3) for Saturday’s annual Ohio State vs. Michigan game. I was generous to Michigan. I gave them 3 points because my wife and daughter went to college in Ann Arbor even though the university …
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Thursday, November 15
Column HR214
Some advice for the new ADO president
It can be reported with certainty that anyone who plays or has played darts has at one time or another been asked…
“You play darts? How many bulls can you throw?”
After one answers, the inevitable less-than-cute follow up question usually is…
“Seriously?”…
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Howie Reed's Column
Wednesday, November 1
Column HR213
The ADO should beg machine operators to take over the sport!
There are times, abeit rather rare, when the Old Dart Coach is spot on.
He may have hit on something recently when he mentioned that the PDC seemed to have “a big tournament every week on TV.” The overall …
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Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Column 546
It’s Halloween! Or Punky Night, if you live in Somerset, England!
This evening, as we in America toss Tootsie Rolls into sacks thrust at us by sticky little children cleverly disguised as sticky little children in sheets, across the pond in Somerset, the Brits are handing out goodies to …
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Dartoid's Column
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Column HR212
You can take a player out of England but you can’t take the England out of the player!
It takes a great deal to shock the Old Dart Coach, even more to jar the very roots of his being.
This happened recently, twice within days.
The ODC was sure …
Monday, October 9, 2017
Column HR211
WDF World Cup XXI
The World Darts Federation (WDF) with 31 teams recently descended on the city of Kobe, Japan, for World Cup XXI. Little remembered, except for those from Kobe, is that on April 18, 1942, Kobe was one of the targets of the famous Doolittle Raid which …
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Howie Reed's Column
Tuesday, October 1, 2017
Column HR210
Those were the days
Recently, one of the Old Darts Coach’s pals posted, “I wish I could go back to the America I grew up in…”
To be expected, some wanted to turn a simple statement into a political rant. For darters from the Golden Age, the late 1970s …
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