Dartoid’s Column

Monday, March 2, 2009
Column 352
One year ago, this March, in darts…

March marched in just like them thar posh Redcoats once did into Lexington and Concord, and then…

BAM! BANG! BOOM!

Phil Taylor shows those who just last month chided his best days were behind him that, unlike them thar Redcoats… he still …

Monday, February 23, 2009
Column 351
My wife has just won her TWENTY-EIGHTH Golden Nose!

This fall I will have been married to my wife, Marylou, for twenty-eight years!

TWENTY-EIGHT!

That would be a quick d14 – now BUY ME A BEER!

On average I throw darts three nights a week. And I travel. I’ve …

Friday, February 20, 2009
Column 350
Sponsor a Professional Darts Player!

Much like the little ditties I’ve popped out for the past fifteen years, there are certain darts website forums that are just not relevant. But I won’t mention SEWA.

There is however, one forum, now five-years-old, that has been on the cutting-edge since its …

Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Column 349
Help find The Phantom Darts Player!

Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Column 348
The First Annual White Sands Missile Launch Darts Tournament

To some, the eighty-four mile, hour or so long stretch along old US Highway 54 from El Paso, Texas to Alamogordo, New Mexico might seem desolate, but it’s not. At least it wasn’t for me. Travelers will typically encounter military …

Sunday, February 1, 2009
Column 347
One year ago, this February, in darts…

February followed January, as it often does, and…

…the Whyte & Mackay Premier League kicked off with a first night shocker as thirteen-time world champion Phil Taylor, using a new set of Unicorn’s aerodynamically perfecto mundo Sigma darts and despite a 6-5 …

Monday, January 12, 2009
Column 346
Omsin the Elephant

I was lucky. Twice

I made it out of Bangkok – just four hours before thousands of armed anti-government protesters stormed through police lines and into the departure area at Suvarnabhumi Airport, shutting it down for a week. Then, due to a fortuitous last minute change …

Sunday, January 4, 2009
Column 345
The Power versus The Man

The crowd has piled in, ordered the first of tonight’s 12,500 pints, begun to sing and chant, and most important of all – the massage girl is back in the press room giving Rod Harrington the first rub down of the evening. I really …

Sunday, January 4, 2009
Column 344
Malice at the Palace

Last night, between re-reading and my mortification at all the typographical errors in yesterday’s furiously written column about the semi-finals and trying to find a good kebab, I had a chance to do more than just admire the photographs of Helen Chamberlain and Juicy Lucy …

Saturday, January 3, 2009
Column 343
The 2009 World Championship – Semi Finals

There is a scene in David Nobbs’ Cupid’s Dart (Arrow Books, 2008) where Oxford philosophy professor Alan Calcutt happens upon the World Darts Championship on television. He’s recently hooked up with darts groupie, Angie Bedwell, half his age and is anticipating an …