Dartoid’s Column

Monday, June 21, 2010
Column 392
A Dartboard for Father’s Day

I have a lot of dartboards. People give them to me.

I have one in my office, one in my home office, one on my lanai, and four or five others stacked up on a shelf in my garage. I’ve been thinking of giving …

Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Column 391
The Chicken COOP Open is just days away!

I don’t know ‘bout ya’ll but when I think of the Ozarks what pops into my noggin is hooters, and I done don’t mean that place with the chicken wings. No siree, Bob.

What I mean is Hooterville. Don’t nobody know …

Monday, May 17, 2010
Column 390
Dr. Patrick Chaplin has written the Bible of darts history!

It should come as no surprise that Patrick Chaplin’s more than decade-long research earned him the first and only Ph.D. “in darts” from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge in 2006 – and darts enthusiasts everywhere are in for an indulgence …

Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Column 389
Let’s get ready to rumble with Howie Reed!

For years, I have been searching for a Dartoid’s World guest columnist… and I’ve finally found him!

It gives me great pleasure to introduce the one and only Howie Reed and his widely popular column, Toeing the Oche. To those who …

Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Column 388
Helen Scheerbaum – FOREVER the First Lady of Darts

Sadly, the one and only – the AMAZING – Helen Scheerbaum passed away last night after a long illness. She loved this crazy old column. I run it again in her memory. May she rest in peace.
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Thursday, April 1, 2010
Column 387
It is TRUE! There is VIDEO!

Her name is Yvonne Whitfield. Until a chance meeting a couple of years ago I hadn’t thought of her, let alone seen her, since 1974. She recognized me. I don’t know how – I look nothing like I did all those years ago.…

Thursday, March 25, 2010
Column 386
Could it be True?

For the first time in 15 years, having penned nearly 400 columns about our sport, I have written a column that I am not publishing, although perhaps I should.

Instead, I have had it officially time-stamped and placed in a safe at my lawyer’s office.…

Monday, March 1, 2010
Column 385
Bucharest, Romania

Here I sit worrying and nursing an Ursus beer in the English Bar, the most famous pub in the Balkans, located in the heart of Bucharest, Romania in the glitzy Athenee Plaza Hotel.

Immortalized in the Balkan Trilogy and other novels, the nearly century-old bar has played …

Monday, February 1, 2010
Column 384
The 2009 Shanghai International Darts Open

The plan would be ambitions under any circumstance. Most would call it impossible, even absurd…

Not so in The People’s Republic of China.

The Chinese have an old proverb: Si ma dang huo ma yi. (Try to save the dead horse as …

Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Column 383
The Music City Classic

“Scoring’s for show; doubles for dough.”– Bobby GeorgeThe doubles were flowin’ for me like a frickin’ fire hydrant on crack recently at the Greater Nashville Darting Association’s annual Music City Classic. But damn it, they just weren’t producin’ the dough.

My first look …