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Wednesday, March 23, 2022
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Darters invade Beach… but first, a FREE ANNA update!

FREE ANNA!  As is now widely known, the World Darts Federation has banned Anastasia Dobromyslova from their “We want a World Championship Too” tournament.  Their only semi-legitimate “defense” is that they are a member of the Alliance of Independent Members …

Friday, March 18, 2022
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THE QUEEN ABDICATES!

The fallout from the Old Dart Coach’s effort entitled “DISCRIMINATION!” has been like rain in Seattle – nonstop.  Like an earthquake in California the aftershocks are notable and just keep coming.

Just moments before yesterday’s column was posted, Real Dart Fanatics broke the story of Fallon …

Thursday, March17, 2022
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DISCRIMINATION!

Discrimination should NOT be celebrated, encouraged or expected.  This is particularly true in sport where competitors and organizations fly the equality flag, at times to excess.  Talk is cheap.  Action takes willpower.  Discrimination has many sides including race, color and religion – all ugly.

Darts has been hit with …

Wednesday, March16, 2022
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Here’s to the ladies!

The Old Dart Coach wishes a belated Happy Birthday (#80) to Irish great, John McKenna.  The ODC’s first Guinness on St. Patty’s Day will be for John and also Tom Firth.  Firth traveled from Dublin to last week’s UK Open.  He echoed the Old Dart Coach’s …

Wednesday, March 9, 2022
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Dart God bakes NEW DUTCH TREAT!

Every person who has ever thrown a dart knows there’s a Dart God (aka Tungsten Tillie).  It’s the voice that says “Pal (or Palette if female or Whisky Foxtrot Tango if declined to state), this is your day.”  A bit fickle, she is …

Wednesday, March 2, 2022
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A plan gone awry

Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote in To a Mouse, “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men.  Gang aft a-gley”.

Recently, the Old Dart Coach was a victim as his plans went “a-gley”.  The plan?  To write a detailed report on the Camellia Classic …

Monday, February 21, 2022
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PRICE IS RIGHT!

The Old Dart Coach never said, “It is better to be a has-been than a never-was” to those who leveled cheap shots at the senior darters.  But Dave Justice did.  He was a top player in the Motha country back when paper and feather flights were …

Monday, February 14, 2022
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Old Dart Coach apologize?  Not likely.  PS: Crisket sucks!

One might recall Irving Berlin’s The Song is Ended, but the Melody Lingers On when thinking about the recent Seniors World Championship.  (Editor’s note: The Old Dart Coach quotes a lot of old song titles and lyrics because he doesn’t …

Tuesday, February 8, 2022
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Welcome back, geezers!

In 1940, Thomas Wolfe’s novel, You Can’t Go Home Again, was published.   That premise was tested twice last week in the UK. The Old Dart Coach investigates.

Night one of the Premier League arrived in Cardiff, Wales, with locals Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton.

Clayton …