Tuesday, May 4, 2010
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Let’s get ready to rumble with Howie Reed!
For years, I have been searching for a Dartoid’s World guest columnist… and I’ve finally found him!
It gives me great pleasure to introduce the one and only Howie Reed and his widely popular column, Toeing the Oche. To those who …
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
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Helen Scheerbaum – FOREVER the First Lady of Darts
Sadly, the one and only – the AMAZING – Helen Scheerbaum passed away last night after a long illness. She loved this crazy old column. I run it again in her memory. May she rest in peace.
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Thursday, April 1, 2010
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It is TRUE! There is VIDEO!
Her name is Yvonne Whitfield. Until a chance meeting a couple of years ago I hadn’t thought of her, let alone seen her, since 1974. She recognized me. I don’t know how – I look nothing like I did all those years ago.…
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
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Could it be True?
For the first time in 15 years, having penned nearly 400 columns about our sport, I have written a column that I am not publishing, although perhaps I should.
Instead, I have had it officially time-stamped and placed in a safe at my lawyer’s office.…
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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
Column 382
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
Column 381
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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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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