Monday, March 1, 2010
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Bucharest, Romania
Here I sit worrying and nursing an Ursus beer in the English Bar, the most famous pub in the Balkans, located in the heart of Bucharest, Romania in the glitzy Athenee Plaza Hotel.
Immortalized in the Balkan Trilogy and other novels, the nearly century-old bar has played …
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Monday, February 1, 2010
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The 2009 Shanghai International Darts Open
The plan would be ambitions under any circumstance. Most would call it impossible, even absurd…
Not so in The People’s Republic of China.
The Chinese have an old proverb: Si ma dang huo ma yi. (Try to save the dead horse as …
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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The Music City Classic
My first look …
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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One year ago, this December, in darts…
What a year 2008 was in the world of darts!
And what a month December was!
In all begins in January with John Part’s third world championship over 9-year-old, Kirk Shepherd. Part buys Canada a Navy with his winnings (Shepherd buys a …
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Dartoid's ColumnMonday, November 16, 2009
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George Silberzahn interviews Dartoid (and me)!
I was recently interviewed by American darting legend and author (“How to Master the Sport of Darts” and “Darts: Beginning to End”), George Silberzahn. The full interview follows. It can also be found at George’s website and if you go there (“How …
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Friday, November 13, 2009
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Erik McVay — EXPOSED!
After being informed of the post (below) made yesterday by SEWA’s Erik McVay and after more than a fair bit of internal struggle I have decided to break a promise I made almost two years ago – to never make public a behind-the-scenes discussion between …
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
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Glenn Remick – The King of Beer and the King of Darts
Today’s question is: how much is 35,447,466,667 and just what does this number have to do with the sport of darts?
Let’s examine the question. There are actually two parts.
How much is 35 billion?
Thirty-five billion …
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
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One year ago, this November, in darts…
Hillary Clinton is elected president!
Well, not quite…
Actually, it is Barack Obama who scores a historic triumph, becoming (in the words of one journalist) “the nation’s first black president since the second season of 24.”
True to his campaign promise …
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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Come on in little kiddies. Be nice. Don’t swear. Enjoy friendly banter with a CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER!
Today’s question is: Can a privately owned (darts) website forum ban someone from participating for no reason other than that they have been convicted of a sex crime and are listed on …
Thursday, October 1, 2009
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One year ago, this October, in darts
Thirteen-times world champion Phil Taylor is over the moon again (honest) as he kicks off October with another professional tour win – his thirteenth of the year – with a victory over James Wade in the final of the Irish Players Championship.…
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