Dartoid’s Column

The first thing you’ll notice when you pick up one of Anne “Sleepy” Kramer’s new books is its weight. It’s heavy.

At ten ounces it registers just three ounces shy of a can of Budweiser or about one four-thousandth the estimated weight of the dart player featured on page 227. Yep, this is one …

As one of my blues harp classmates, Richard Verrochi, put it, “I came to Clarksdale to do a deal with the Devil and found out the Devil was Jon Gindick – and he wasn’t dealin’.”

Gindick, as most of you dart people will not know, is one of the premier blues harmonica instructors in the …

Sunday, September 1, 2013
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Darts in the Mississippi Delta

In three weeks I’m headin’ south, to the Deep South. I’m headin’ to the Crossroads – the junction of Highway 61 and Highway 49 near Clarksdale, Mississippi. It’s a famous place. It’s so famous that the journey must be chronicled with TWO Dartoid’s World …

Tuesday, August 13, 2013
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Cara has her eye on you!

Today’s “column” isn’t about darts. Its about a dog named Cara whose life began in Romania just like one of my dogs, Romy. In 2010, I adopted Romy from one of my clients’ sanctuaries in Galati. At the time she was just a …

Thursday, August 1, 2013
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Phil Taylor broke NO RULES!

The Old Dart Coach, Howie Reed’s recent columns about the tempest over Phil Taylor’s shenanigans at Gibraltar Darts Trophy remind me of the night I committed THE major darting transgression – and I’m not talking about throwing without a beer in my left hand. …

Monday, July 1, 2013
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Shoe for Dart

Hallo. I just regestered now and this is forst post (so kind please be) it may seem a goofy but it serieus and am wondering what kind of shoe you wear for dart? Where I live in Mesa most of time I practice in the flip-flop …

Saturday, June 1, 2013
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How to put the FUN back into your darts

I didn’t write this column. I didn’t ask permission to reprint it. It was written by my idol and close personal friend, “El Comandante” Erik McVay, founder of The Website That Shall Not Be Named – formerly known as SEWA.…

Wednesday, May 1, 2013
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180! Fascinating Darts Facts – a Review

Far be it from me to correct Patrick Chaplin, but I must. “Trust me – I’m a doctor,” he writes in the introduction to his newest book, 180! Fascinating Darts Facts.

I’ve read the book twice, circled passages, underlined words, folded …

Monday, April 1, 2013
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One Trillion Darts

An article by Jacqueline Leo in The Fiscal Times caught my eye recently. Don’t ask me what I was doing reading The Fiscal Times.

Most of us, wrote Leo, can’t imagine the scope or volume of a million anything, let alone a trillion. For …

Friday, March 1, 2013
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A conversation with Tommy Cox

The phone rings. My wife answers. The voice on the line is British.

The caller asks for me. My wife tells him I’m at my office and gives him the number.

A few minutes later my phone rings, but not before my wife reaches …