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Howie Reed

Astute, often controversial, and always humorous, the Old Dart Coach, Howie Reed (a former rodeo cowboy and advertising executive), is heralded as the Dean of Darts Chroniclers - the most prolific and widely followed writer ever about our sport. He goes back decades with the legends and knows where the skeletons are buried (just ask any of the ADO and WDF old-timers!). Here are four well-known facts about the Old Dart Coach: 1) he is a Republican, 2) he loves the ladies, 3) he can drink most anybody under the table, and 4) he throws darts as bad as Dartoid.

Column #HR370 “Facts are the Enemy of Truth”…

Wednesday, September 22, 2022
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“Facts are the Enemy of Truth”…

…from author Miguel de Cervantes’ quill in his novel Don Quixote.  Today, facts trump media truths.  The Old Dart Coach is both.

Don Quixote had a fear of windmills.  Amsterdam is a city of windmills.  Is it a coincidence that the Old …

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Column #HR369 Unexpected Consequences

Wednesday, September 14, 2022
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Unexpected Consequences

The world’s deluged with individuals using “unexpected consequences” to explain lack of common sense and stupidly.  Oil prices rise and so does everything else – that’s common sense, not unexpected consequences.  The Old Dart Coach chewing a red licorice rope breaks a tooth – that’s an unexpected …

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Column #HR368 Streisand & Redford, Umberger & Karpowich, Kramer & McGinnis

Wednesday, September 7, 2022
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Streisand & Redford, Umberger & Karpowich, Kramer & McGinnis

What in the Sam Hill is going on?

Streisand & Redford in the same headline as great darting duos?

Reitan-Green & Hopkins, Karpowich & Maloney, Lim & Sinnaeve, Verrier & McDonald (Cricket only) – and Reed & Parsley would also …

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Column #HR 366 GOLDEN AGE DARTERS’ REUNION… A GO!

Wednesday, August 24, 2022
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GOLDEN AGE DARTERS’ REUNION… A GO!

What started as dinner conversation among four old geezers then affirmed by two fair darting damsels, Lisa Farrell and Connie Sroka, has become a reality.  On January 20-21, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the Tuscany Hotel/Casino, the First Annual “Darters of the …

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Column #HR365 GREY SKIES FOR LADIES’ DARTS

Thursday, August 17, 2022
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GREY SKIES FOR LADIES’ DARTS

The world, especially sport, has transitioned from rewarding excellence to kotowing to the loudest minority.  Darts has not escaped this rapidly-spreading WOKE virus.  Common sense the only known vaccine.

Like many, the World Darts Federation (WDF) grabs its ankles asking for neither a cocktail …

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Column #HR362 ALL HAIL Queen Sherrock and King van Gerwen!

Monday, July 25, 2022
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ALL HAIL Queen Sherrock and King van Gerwen!

The sun rose at 5:28 AM Sunday morning in Blackpool, setting at 9:23 PM.  The weather?  72 and sunny outside.  Inside the Winter Garden it was hotter and beery…

Ten dart players, all battle tested, would determine what the “weather” would …

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