Monday, July 24, 2017
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Las Vegas Tales – par Deux
In the novel The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway wrote “I am always in love.” For many that attended the Festival of Darts recently at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas no truer words were ever written. Darts is the one true mistress …
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Howie Reed's Column
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Column HR204
Las Vegas Tales
True! – nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses – not destroyed – not dulled them.
Those could well have been the thoughts of the North American …
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Wednesday, July 5, 2017
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The British are coming! The British are coming!
With the 4th of July in the rear view window some would take the Old Dart Coach to task for publishing this column after the fact. Let ’em.
July 4th marks the signing of the Declaration of Independence. That document freed …
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Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Column 539
An Open Letter about DARTS to Kim Jong-in
Dear Jong-un…
Please accept my deepest condolences to you and your family on the death of your father and also my apology for addressing you informally. I write in friendship to ask for an invitation to come to North Korea to …
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Dartoid's Column
Monday, June 26, 2017
Column HR202
The rest of the Rick Ney Story
With the advent and growth of the PDC and the worldwide explosion of soft point darts more people are playing darts today than ever before. This is especially so in Asia.
While steel point players in North America bemoan the loss of …
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Howie Reed's Column
Monday, June 5, 2017
Column HR201
PDC World Cup VI – so many memories!
When the Old Dart Coach was but a toddler each Saturday morning he’d be glued to the radio for his favorite program, Grand Central Station – “…the crossroads of a million private lives, a gigantic stage on which are played a …
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Saturday, June 4, 2017
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Some questions in life beg to be answered…
For example, why would anyone in their right mind get up at 4:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning in Las Vegas, Nevada, to watch the second round of the PDC World Cup IV? The answer is simple: they wouldn’t. The Old …
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Saturday, June 3, 2017
Column HR199
The Kathy Griffin of darts…
Dressed to the 9s and singing “There’s Only One Phil Taylor” and “Heeeeey Baby” the darting Frankfurters came out to party last night in Frankfurt on Day 2 of the £300,000 PDC World Cup VI at the Eissporthalle. There were Santas and a Cat …
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Friday, June 2, 2017
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LIM ‘N LIM – The New Frankfurt “Chinese” Takeout
When the sun rose yesterday at 5:29 a.m. in Frankfurt, Germany, the odds were good that few if any of the 2.3 million metro area population knew or even cared that in just 15 hours the PDC World Cup VI …
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Thursday, June 1, 2017
Column 538
More 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 …
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