Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Column HR222
No BS (almost!)
For 30-plus years the Old Dart Coach has penned hundreds of thousands of words on subjects ranging from darts to boxing to skiing, even including a stint for a throwaway paper as a live entertainment critic at Lake Tahoe. He’s plied his trade, such as it …
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Thursday, March 1, 2018
Column 554
Throwin’ with “Bones”
Throwin’ with “Bones” is something my old partner, Chris James, and I talked often of doing.
When I’d return from my travels, often with souvenirs — like the spear once used by an Ugandan elephant poacher, which now hangs on the wall in his restaurant — …
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Thursday, March 1, 2018
Column HR221
“Excuse me, but how do you get to Carnegie Hall?”
The Sultan of Sittingbourne, Mr. David Whitcombe, can wear many hats. Now retired from the Sisal Wars he still shows the wry sense of humor that was so often on display those many years ago. His humor was on …
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Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Column HR220
“Big Baby” Lewis, the DRA and the Sword of Damocles
While enjoying the morning “Mia cup of coffee” (no Espresso Macchiato for the Old Dart Coach) he was struck with the realization that he owed Adrian “Big Baby” Lewis a sincere and deeply heartfelt apology.
It’s not easy to …
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Friday, February 5, 2018
Column HR219
MORE about the walk-on girls (and a word about “Big Baby” Lewis)
WARNING: This column will contain the opinions of the Old Dart Coach (as opposed to other columns in which he tries to pass blame onto others by using “questionable” quotation marks).
Sport, including darts, is most …
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Thursday, February 1, 2018
Column 553
DATELINE: 2068
After the unfortunate PDC ban on walk-on girls in 2018, Formula 1 quickly followed. Then went boxing Ring girls.
In 2019, pom pom girls and cheerleaders were banned.
Then in 2025, just as President Trump was inaugurated for his third term exotic dancers and porn stars were …
Sunday, January 28, 2018
Column 552
The PDC’s decision to ban walk-on girls is STUPID!
With all the recent hoopla about the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) wilting under political pressure and giving their (much appreciated) walk-on girls the heave-ho, I got to thinking about the time…
… former Bulls Eyes News editor/publisher Jay Tomlinson says …
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Friday, January 26, 2018
Column HR218
A Party at the Tuscany
You Can’t Go Home Again was a 1940 novel published posthumously for author Thomas Wolf. Posthumously means Wolf had “assumed room temperature” as the guy on the radio says. The premise of You Can’t Go Home Again, for those that got no farther …
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Howie Reed's ColumnWednesday, January 3, 2018
Column HR217
THANK YOU Philip Douglas Taylor!
The opening line of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It is “All the world’s a stage.” No one remembers that the Old Dart Coach – before he was he Old Dart Coach – appeared in Mrs. Warren’s 9th grade class production of As You …
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Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Column 551
Anne Kramer’s Laguna Sector
Back in 2013 when Anne “Sleepy” Kramer published her first book, The Ultimate Book of Darts, it was observed in this space that “For some reason Larry Butler, the most consistent player of the past three decades and only American ever to win a …
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