Wednesday, January 8, 2025
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IT’S LUKE’s WORLD!
The newspaper headline blared: “Littler’s Legend takes flight.” Then came the sub head: “At 17, becomes youngest world champion in dart history”. Really no surprise there, except that headline isn’t from London papers like the Star, the Sun, the Mirror or the Express, to …
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Thursday, December 12, 2024
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Ponce de León smiles…
With the WDF Lakeside World Championships off and running Ponce de León must have been smiling “ear to ear.” In 1513, de León found the Fountian of Youth in Florida. He discovered magic waters in a spring that would return youth to those a little …
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Friday, November 22, 2024
Column HR473
LUCK… YAY or NAY
The golfing great Jack Nicholaus said, “The more I practice the luckier I get.” The Old Dart Coach would strongly disagree with Nicholaus. There is good luck, bad luck and the old favorite – “No Foxtrot Luck.” Conventional wisdom, often says, “Good and bad luck …
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Friday, November 7, 2024
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Gary Anderson attacks the ODC!
Gary Anderson, the smooth throwing Scot, is never shy about stating his opinion. It’s sometimes difficult to understand what the heck he’s saying. The Old Dart Coach recently caught a post of Anderson being interviewed after a match. Fortunately, it as transcribed for the …
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Thursday, October 24, 2024
Column HR471
DOWN THE TUNGSTEN TRAIL…
The Tungsten Trail weaved a circuitous route this week with stops at the Philadelphia Social Club, Leicester’s Mattioli Arena and the Gambrinus Czech Darts Open in Prague.
The Championships Dart Circuit held their season ending Continental Cup in the city of Brotherly Love. Stowe Buntz, …
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Thursday, October 17, 2024
Column HR470
CinderFELLA – it’s Mike!
Mike De Decker became a debut PDC TV winner with a stunning derailment of Luke Humphries’ dreams of becoming a back-to-back Grand Prix Champion. There were times in the Leicester’s Mattioli Arena when the crowd sat in stunned silence by what was happening. De Decker …
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Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Column HR469
OCTOBER MEANS MATCHPLAY and GRAND PRIX!
Of course, October is also known for the coming of fall in many parts of the Colonies – a time for citizens to post on social media how much they love pumpkin spiced everything.
For the Old Dart Coach, the month contains his …
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Howie Reed's ColumnThursday, October 3, 2024
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WHOOPS!
The Old Dart Coach has been sentenced to a dinner of crow, fava beans and an average Chianti for committing the cardinal sin as a writer – he penned an incorrect “fact”. Shame on him. Bad boy. If he had a doghouse, he’d be in it.
In last …
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Thursday, September 26, 2024
Column HR467
The Baby PDC… CDC
The Professional Darts Corporation, since its inception as a for profit enterprise, has expanded its footprint throughout the world. Today, that footprint in found in Europe, Asia and North America. In North America that footprint found a home with the Championship Darts Corporation or CDC.…
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Howie Reed's ColumnThursday, September 19, 2024
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A COBB SALAD…
A Cobb salad you write? Yes indeed…
The Cobb salad was invented in 1937 at the Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant. The owner of the restaurant, Robert Cobb, came into his restaurant hungry late at night. Looking around the kitchen he found little. Hunger won out so …
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