Dartoid’s Column

Tuesday, January 3, 2012
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An Open Letter about DARTS to Kim Jong-un

Dear Jong-un…

Please accept my deepest condolences to you and your family on the death of your father and also my apology for addressing you informally. I mean no disrespect. I write in friendship to ask for an invitation to come …

Friday, December 2, 2011
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Eddie Norman – Darts Ambassador

When I read Frau Charis Mutschler’s hervorragend recent interview with Eddie Norman for Global Darts I immediately sent off a message asking if I could reprint the interview at Dartoid’s World. To say I was pleased to receive her okay would be an understatement……

Friday, October 28, 2011
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Jerry Van Loan – Does Darts and America Proud

Fanned (and rightly so) by the Old Dart Coach, Howie Reed, there’s been a bit of banter in recent weeks (although hardly enough) about the World Cup and finagling by Olly Croft, Roy Price and possibly outgoing American Darts Organization …

Sunday, October 2, 2011
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Who are we?

In the Year 2000, according to a survey conducted by the American Darts Organization (ADO) the average dart player in this country was 38 years old, so I guess you and I are now about 50. In my case (and the Old Dart Coach’s) this is …

Thursday, September 1, 2011
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Darts Wanderlust

“Now when I was a little chap,” recalled Joseph Conrad at the beginning of Heart of Darkness, “I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that …

Monday, August 1, 2011
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Steel-tip ain’t no Olympic shoo-in – there’s (plastic) competition!

They call him the “Dragon” and he’s a former world champion. He has basked in the glory of his ‘sport,’ one that some describe as “just the right mix of skill and intellect.” Growing older and with a family, he …

Thursday, July 14, 2011
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The 2011 Soft Tip World Championship, Hong Kong

For years Dartoid’s World has made the case that the center of the darts universe has been shifting.

Now it has.

I have written that the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) should wake up and smell the noodles, that it should take …

Friday, July 1, 2011
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Scoring for Show, Doubles for Dough. Bobby George’s Darts Lingo.

Okay, I admit it. I don’t understand the British. I don’t understand a fookin’ thing they say. I’ve tried. Honest I have. Now I’ve even read a book that’s supposed to explain it all. Ain’t sure it helped a …

Wednesday, June 1, 2011
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A long overdue apology to Dave “Boy” Green

After a decade of hesitation (which I now regret) I attended my first Chicken COOP Open (the 25th anniversary of the tournament) in Noel, Missouri in 2006. I had an outstanding time, met hundreds of terrific people, witnessed an outpouring of …

Sunday, May 1, 2011
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Mr. Rat EXPOSED! Erdogan Camelback SPEAKS!

In 2006, after months of vigorously tracking the elusive Mr. Rat – the seer of darts seers, the prognosticator of darts prognosticators – through an intermediary (the former Caroline Sams) I finally prevailed and secured the Great One’s agreement to respond to the …