Dartoid

July 4, 2007
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Qualifier Two is Over – and the Stage is Set

Following another late night at one of Binions’ Texas Hold-em tables and three hours sleep, my preparations for today’s second qualifier began in typical Las Vegas tourist fashion with a hearty prime rib breakfast and a wave goodbye to a …

July 3, 2007
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Qualifier One is Over and CARVER ADVANCES!

Today’s installment in the Desert Classic series must begin with a couple of apologies.

To my friend Bill Davis from Philadelphia, who threw terrific darts yesterday during the Player’s Championship: I’m sorry I called you Bill Bell!

To Germany’s Charis Munster: I’m sorry …

July 2, 2007
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The Las Vegas Player’s Championship

In a result unprecedented in darting history, indeed in the history of all sport, thirteen times world champion Phil Taylor today won the Professional Darts Corporation’s (PDC) Las Vegas Player’s Championship without being present.

Reached at his home for comment, Dave ‘Boy’ Green, in his …

July 1, 2007
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The Road to Mandalay (Bay)

By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin’ lazy at the sea,
There’s a Burma girl a-settin’, and I know she thinks o’ me;
For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they say;
“Come you back, you British Soldier; come you back to Mandalay!”…

June 1, 2007
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The Underdog’s gonna GETCHA, Erik McVay!

I had a dream about Erik “the Commandant” McVay last night… and he was wearin’ a dress!

Nah, I only jest. But he will be wearin’ one when I’m through thrashin’ his arse this coming July in Las Vegas.

That’s the deal I’m proposin’ …

May 1, 2007
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The Iditarod Open

I am we todd did. I am we todd did.
I am sofa-king we todd did.

— Old Eskimo darters saying

Iditarod or “I. Dartoid” – that is the question.

Anagrams have always fascinated me…

But the discovery by my wife that my pen name is buried …

April 25, 2007
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It was a Dark and Stormy Night

Although some would say it was Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schultz who made it famous, it was Victorian novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton who in 1830 first penned the phrase “It was a dark and stormy night” in the opening line of his novel Paul Clifford. …

April 4, 2007
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Dr. Darts, Trina Gulliver, and the “Brit and Yankee” Podcast!

Good old boy Doctor of Darts, Patrick Chaplin, is at it again!

He has just today announced the pending publication of the first-ever book featuring a female darts player – seven-time world champion Trina Gulliver. Called “The Golden Girl – …

April 1, 2007
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Bob Elliott is one of the GOOD guys!

Sometimes I can’t start writing fast enough. This was the case when I learned about my old friend Bob Elliott.

Elliott and I go back to my early days in darts in the Cape Cod Dart League (CCDL). I was just beginning …

March 1, 2007
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Hey Dummy! We’re Talkin’ about a Darts Light!

I realize this may be a bit incircumspect but, what the hell – this is frickin’ Dartoid’s World, so I’m gonna just put it out there.

Had Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan been Jewish and Austin, Texas’ inventor Scott Harrison been alive 500 …