June 29, 2005
Column 187
Adrian Lewis Was Screwed!!
Day Two has ended here at the Professional Darts Corporation’s (PDC) Las Vegas Desert Classic IV and what a day it was! Unfortunately the first news I must report is tragic and it involves England’s (too) young Adrian Lewis.
In the wee hours last night when …
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June 28, 2005
Column 186
Ray Carver is IN!!
A lot has happened in the twenty-four hours since posting my first report on this year’s Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) Las Vegas Desert Classic. The most amazing thing is that the PDC is continuing to carry my reports, at least for another day. I can’t explain …
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Dartoid's ColumnJune 27, 2005
Column 185
The Bullshit Begins!!
WELCOME to the fourth annual series of Dartoid’s World reports from the Professional Darts Corporation’s (PDC) Las Vegas Desert Classic. This is the special service to darters everywhere that in years past has distinguished itself by demolishing the age-old mantra: What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. …
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June 1, 2005
Column 184
Boracay Island
The plane is rising, dropping, rattling, shaking it’s way through the storm as it descends towards Kalibo. My hands grip the sides of my seat in fear. The seaweed muffin and tomato juice the flight attendant gave me are churning in my stomach. I close my eyes. Somehow …
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May 20, 2005
Column 183
“Cheers” to Justin Irwin — a Man with GUTS!
“Only in America,” penned someone recently, “can a poor black boy grow up to be a rich white woman, like Michael Jackson.” “Only in America,” boxing promoter Don King is fond of saying…
But never in America — only in England …
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May 18, 2005
Column 182
The Greatest Match That Never Was — is GONNA BE!!!
If you’re not a regular reader of this column or were not at the 2004 Professional Darts Corporation’s (PDC) Las Vegas Desert Classic III Darts Tournament, you may not be aware of the INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT that occurred.
I won’t rehash …
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Dartoid's Column
May 1, 2005
Column 181
Start Young
“Looking for pretty young girl who likes football (Go Eagles!) and basketball (AI is da Man!), Blink 182, Rodney Mullen, and Darin Young, going out for pizza, chillin’, can do a “360 Flip” and is willing to play around the clock. Spitting okay.”
Now, before someone out there …
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April 1, 2005
Column 180
When You Throw Mud You Lose Ground
“Man and his deeds are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation, and a wicked deed disapprobation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be.”
– Mohandas Gandhi…
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Dartoid's ColumnMarch 8, 2005
Column 179
Here Comes India…
Following the recent appearance of a handful of the Professional Darts Corporation’s (PDC) top players at the first China Open, and despite the unsurprising fact that the British professionals stomped the best the Chinese had to offer pretty much back to the Ming Dynasty, it should come …
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March 1, 2005
Column 178
Let’s Turn Back the Clock — for Charity
Aside from the expected (my not winning a single leg in four qualifying rounds) last year at the Professional Darts Corporation’s (PDC) Las Vegas Desert Classic, my greatest disappointment was the unexpected last-minute disqualification of Lubbock, Texas’s Ricky Villanueva. As Dick Allix …
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