As one of my blues harp classmates, Richard Verrochi, put it, “I came to Clarksdale to do a deal with the Devil and found out the Devil was Jon Gindick – and he wasn’t dealin’.”
Gindick, as most of you dart people will not know, is one of the premier blues harmonica instructors in the …
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Dartoid's Column
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Column HR99
World Cup Team: BEWARE!
Author John Steinbeck opined, the “best-laid plans of mice and men oft go astray.” The same is true of guys who write darts columns.
The Old Dart Coach always viewed International darts competitions as great sporting events. He fell in lust after the 1979 World …
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Friday, September 13, 2013
Column HR98
Darts, the Circus and Clowns (the DRA)
Prompted by the query, “How does your mind work?” the Old Dart Coach mused. He was bewildered by the question (and highly offended by the term “work”) but he soldered on.
His mind wandered back to a book he devoured in his …
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Howie Reed's Column
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Column 451
Darts in the Mississippi Delta
In three weeks I’m headin’ south, to the Deep South. I’m headin’ to the Crossroads – the junction of Highway 61 and Highway 49 near Clarksdale, Mississippi. It’s a famous place. It’s so famous that the journey must be chronicled with TWO Dartoid’s World …
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Column HR97
Wrasslin’ with the PDC (and an anaconda?)
Ever try to explain the game of darts to a sightless person? It’s hard enough to explain the game, period.
Eons ago the ODC explained the game to Chris Berman on ESPN, “You start with something… when you have nothing left… you …
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Howie Reed's Column
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Column 450
Cara has her eye on you!
Today’s “column” isn’t about darts. Its about a dog named Cara whose life began in Romania just like one of my dogs, Romy. In 2010, I adopted Romy from one of my clients’ sanctuaries in Galati. At the time she was just a …
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Dartoid's ColumnThursday, August 1, 2013
Column 449
Phil Taylor broke NO RULES!
The Old Dart Coach, Howie Reed’s recent columns about the tempest over Phil Taylor’s shenanigans at Gibraltar Darts Trophy remind me of the night I committed THE major darting transgression – and I’m not talking about throwing without a beer in my left hand. …
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Column HR96
The Sun: “Bristow calls Taylor a cheat over missed double 12.”
Thursday in Las Vegas means a lunch of sporting personalities and sports writers and a good chin wag. It’s strange that HHR II (aka the Old Dart Coach) is included considering the fact that he meets none of …
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Howie Reed's Column
Monday, July 15, 2013
Column HR95
How flipping magnanimous!
During a recent chat a pal of the Old Dart Coach remarked of a common acquaintance, “He has a character flaw. He doesn’t like sports.”
That statement’s simplicity is astounding. In sport it’s “outhouse” to the “penthouse” – and vice versa – in a New York …
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Howie Reed's Column
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Column 94
“We celebrate the 4th because we got rid of the likes of you!”
The cry rang throughout the land…
“The British are coming! The British are coming!”
Most can identify the loudmouth as Paul Revere immortalized by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem “Paul Revere’s Ride.”
Paul’s horse?
“Brown …
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