Wednesday, November 11, 2020
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Congratulations Wales!
As Slim Pickens said in Blazing Saddles, “What in the wide, wide world of sports is a goin’ on here?” He could have seen the future of the just concluded PDC World Cup of Darts X…
The Old Dart Coach was wrong with his predictions of …
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Thursday, October 29, 2020
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It’s PDC World Cup time!
With a chill in the air and All Hollow’s Eve knocking at the door the Old Dart Coach is ready for his once a year treat. Yes, it’s PDC World Cup time!
The drunk Irish Potato Head has called for the PDC World Cup …
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Thursday, October 15, 2020
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Whoops – the ODC did it again!
Like many humans and despite evidence to the contrary, the aging Old Dart Coach tries to multi-task. That usually results in disaster.
When he appears in print, he’s often held accountable with malice aforethought. Many recent emails suggest that the ODC’s fireplace …
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Howie Reed's ColumnThursday, October 1, 2020
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Huston, Gershwin, Peggy Lee – and DARTS?
In 1938, the year of the Old Dart Coach’s birth, actor Walter Huston took to the stage in New York to sing the “September Song” in the musical Knickerbocker Holiday. He sang:
Oh, it’s a long, long while from May to …
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Monday, September 14, 2020
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Strange Year Par Uno
Some relish calling the Old Dart Coach the ultimate Captain Oblivious. He obliges.
It’s been an unusual year for the Professional Darts Corporation and darts in general in oh so many ways – but the demise of the British Darts Organization (BDO) must top the …
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Tuesday, August 18, 2020
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STOP IT!
The Old Dart Coach likes to reminisce about them “Golden Days of Darts” but when he does many readers echo his pal, Nurse Fluff, and say “STOP IT!”
Regardless, thanks to Facebook postings by Bill Specht fond memories of that era are being brought back and shared …
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Wednesday, July 27, 2020
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World Matchplay wrap-up – and more BLM!
The Old Dart Coach fell off the soapbox last week. Battered and bruised he’s rejoining the fray…
Of course, darts has always required skill, predominantly hand-eye coordination, and stamina – when prodigious amounts of “aiming fluid” and “group tighter” are involved.
But …
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Wednesday, July 22, 2020
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Matchplay and Racism?
All sports and those who write about them are part of a circus and “under the big top” today the not invisible “elephant in the ring” is racism.
The definition of racism (which the majority of people surely can’t recite) is prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed …
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Wednesday, July 15, 2020
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As the Darts World Turns…
The longest daily “soap serial” in the USA was The Guiding Light. The daily program ran for 72 years on radio and television. The Guiding Light is only topped for longevity in the USA by the Grand Ole Opry which started in 1929 …
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Tuesday, June 9, 2020
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Rest well with the angels, Dave Kelly
These written efforts to chronicle darts began in the late 1970s when a very nice lady asked a “B” league dart player to do a column for the Northern California Darts Association newsletter. (The lady requests that her name not be used.)…
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