Monday, March 31, 2014
Column 459
Dartoid Arrested!
This is Kelly Ragland. I maintain Paul Seigel’s website – Dartoid’s World. I received a call from Paul’s wife, Marylou. Paul and a friend have been arrested in Africa – Rwanda.
They were caught trying to board a plane with a suitcase full endangered wood and some …
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Wednesday, March 24, 2014
Column HR110
Taylor’s baaack! Taylor’s baaack?
Newspapers, bloggers and Facebook posters are sometimes wrong. Shocking yes, but true. The Old Dart Coach humbly suggests that this is the case in regard to reports of the darting death of one Philip Douglas Taylor.
In 1896, a London newspaper reported that Samuel Langhorne …
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Howie Reed's Column
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Column HR109
Sandra Bullock’s Behind Worth $70 Million. Does Phil Taylor Care?
The Old Dart Coach is addicted to the Internet. Like his other disgusting habits, of which there are many, he makes no apologies. To prepare for this effort the Internet was scanned for clues on how to improve readership. …
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Saturday, March 1, 2014
Column 458
Taylor, Panuncialman, and Eccles: three controversies, three opinions.
The controversies…
Sixteen times world champion, Phil Taylor, has dumped his nearly two decades-long sponsor, Unicorn, for a five-year, £3 million (almost $5 million) deal with Target. “It’s not all about money…” said Taylor, after comparing the switch to changing mobile …
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Thursday, February 20, 2014
Column HR108
The Year of the Follically-challenged
As strange as it may seem, the Old Dart Coach found himself taking a guilt trip recently. Anyone familiar with the ODC would think, “Lad’s got a lot to feel guilty about!” While true, it will shock those familiar with “dahts” in America that …
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Howie Reed's Column
Monday, February 10, 2014
Column HR107
Phil Taylor: What the heck is going on?
Darts and the bartender from Pine Meadows Golf Course in Martinez, California have come a long way since 2:00 a.m. on January 1, 1977. That morning, after a long night, the bartender accepted clean-up help from a couple of dart players …
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Saturday, February 1, 2014
Column 457
Valentines are Fucked (an inappropriate guest column by Jerry Masterson, age 8, that has nothing to do with darts)
Valentines are fucked! And while this sentence may be similar in theme to my previous column, “Kissing Girls is Fucked!” – they are both non-debatable points.
I will now relate …
Monday, January 27, 2014
Column HR106
Going Home
Thomas Wolf wrote the highly acclaimed novel “You Can’t Go Home Again.” For the dart player who has traveled the world playing darts while helping the sponsor’s meet bar guarantees a visit to any dart tournament is “going home.”
Every tournament in the world, from the very …
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Monday, January 20, 2014
Column HR105
Memories of the Las Vegas Open
This effort should hit the “ether wave” prior to the Las Vegas Open. The brainchild of the late Bob Murdock and his wife Marki, today the tournament is the premier steel tip event in Las Vegas. Memories of the Las Vegas Open are …
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Monday, January 6, 2014
Column HR104
Some of today’s professionals have short memories
Here’s the deal. Because this “new and improved” website was still under construction over the holidays you missed some things during the changeover. For example, you missed the always eagerly anticipated annual Toeing the Oche Christmas column.
That would have included the
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