Dartoid’s Column

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 …

Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Column 382
One year ago, this December, in darts…

What a year 2008 was in the world of darts!

And what a month December was!

In all begins in January with John Part’s third world championship over 9-year-old, Kirk Shepherd. Part buys Canada a Navy with his winnings (Shepherd buys a …

Friday, November 13, 2009
Column 380
Erik McVay — EXPOSED!

After being informed of the post (below) made yesterday by SEWA’s Erik McVay and after more than a fair bit of internal struggle I have decided to break a promise I made almost two years ago – to never make public a behind-the-scenes discussion between …

Thursday, November 5, 2009
Column 379
Glenn Remick – The King of Beer and the King of Darts

Today’s question is: how much is 35,447,466,667 and just what does this number have to do with the sport of darts?

Let’s examine the question. There are actually two parts.

How much is 35 billion?

Thirty-five billion …

Sunday, November 1, 2009
Column 378
One year ago, this November, in darts…

Hillary Clinton is elected president!

Well, not quite…

Actually, it is Barack Obama who scores a historic triumph, becoming (in the words of one journalist) “the nation’s first black president since the second season of 24.”

True to his campaign promise …

Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Column 377
Come on in little kiddies. Be nice. Don’t swear. Enjoy friendly banter with a CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER!

Today’s question is: Can a privately owned (darts) website forum ban someone from participating for no reason other than that they have been convicted of a sex crime and are listed on …