Friday, August 1, 2025
Column 693
What if a player faceplants?
Ah, the internet. That magical place where reason goes to die and dart players go to argue about flip-flops, monkeys, and Rule #449, Section 51, Paragraph 34.
Once upon a time – WAY BACK in 2014 – when the Darts Discussion Group was alive, …
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Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Column 692
The 51st State of Darts: Welcome to Alaska2
So, Donald Trump wants to annex Canada. Yep. He wants the land of maple syrup, moose, and manners to join the land of Big Gulps, bald eagles, and people yelling “Let’s goooo!” in public for no reason.
Before you panic about …
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Monday, June 30, 2025
Column 691
Darts of the Round Table
There are a few things you can always count on at your average darts tournament: the whiff of stale beer, a control desk manned by frazzled volunteers trying to locate someone named “Assassin180,” and boards lined up against the walls and spaced apart, bull …
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Dartoid's ColumnThursday, June 19, 2025
Column 690
Hey Trump – don’t blow up darts in Iran!
This 2007 column is old but perhaps worth sharing again given current circumstances.
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While I had hoped business travel might coincide with the 13th staging of the Asia Pacific Cup in Kuala Lumpur in September, it was not to …
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Monday, June 9, 2025
Column 689
I miss you, Howie
There are voices in this game that have echoed longer than most of us have stood at the oche.
Howie Reed – known to many of you as The Old Dart Coach – was one of them.
For decades, Howie chronicled the world of darts …
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Friday, June 6, 2025
Column 688
There’s a New Dart in Town
Well, not new exactly. The Dodge Dart has been around since the 1960s. It’s the kind of car your granddad might’ve done donuts in behind the drive-in theater – revving his tiny 4-cylinder like it was a ‘Cuda, hoping no one noticed he …
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Monday, June 2, 2025
Column 687
Sangkhlaburi, Thailand – Dogs, Doing Good (and Darts?) at the Edge of the World
You don’t expect to find a dartboard at the edge of the Thai jungle. You definitely don’t expect to find it surrounded by rescue dogs, with the deafening hum of cicadas ringing through the trees. …
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Column 686
The Darts Discussion Group is Dead. What Happened?
It’s a mystery…
From January 1 to May 13, 2025, the once-thriving Darts Discussion Group (DDG) has recorded just 99 unique posts and a paltry 61 comments.
It wasn’t always this way.
In its heyday – especially in the early years …
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Monday, May 12, 2025
Column 685
There’s More to Life Than Darts
In the wild, electrifying world of darts, it’s easy to lose yourself in the moment – the roar of the crowd, the pressure of a double, the rush of a comeback. For those of us who’ve lived it, breathed it, and traveled the …
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Thursday, May 1, 2025
Column 684
Trump vs. Putin at the Great Darts Summit
It was the showdown no one saw coming: Donald J. Trump versus Vladimir Putin in a darts duel at a Moscow dive bar named The Red Bullseye (no relation to the energy drink, though the bartender was suspiciously twitchy. (More on …
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