Monday, March 14, 2011
Column 408
The Diary of an Unhealthy Dart Throwing Slug. Week Six of Nine.
March 11, 2011
I remember one summer day when I was seven years old. It was 1960. My mother (who, the same year, told my dad he could pack her in a box and send her to …
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Monday, March 7, 2011
Column 407
The Diary of an Unhealthy Dart Throwing Slug. Week Five of Nine.
March 2, 2011
Today marks the half-way point in my quest to make it to nine weeks on Reverend Raw’s Whole Health Plan and whittle away a quarter of myself – 53 pounds – to reach my …
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Column 406
The Diary of an Unhealthy Dart Throwing Slug. Week Four of Nine.
February 23, 2011
I am in the middle of the fourth week of my nine-week diet and exercise program. Today I ate some weeds and dirt, ran twenty miles, sweated and almost died. Okay, the twenty mile …
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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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