Dartoid’s Column

August 1, 2007
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Hairspray!!!

I admit it – I don’t know bloody ’el when it comes to movies and music, and I don’t care. Give me the choice between goin’ out on a Friday night to see a musical at the theater or grabbin’ a six pack and watchin’ the Thrilla in Manila …

July 9, 2007
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Barneveld Sizzles!

There may be a heat wave outside but there ain’t nothin’ on the Las Vegas strip that’s sizzled more this week than current world champion, Raymond van Barneveld, has inside the Mandalay Resort and Casino here at the Professional Darts Corporation’s (PDC) sixth annual Las Vegas Desert Classic.…

July 8, 2007
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Part BRAWLS into the Semis. Mawson is AWESOME!

Wouldn’t you know that John Part would treat his fans to one of those matches that nearly causes you to pee your frickin’ pants!

But damn it, that’s what he did today in the first quarter final contest against Dennis Smith in …

July 7, 2007
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Mawson and Part Advance!

Today’s Dartoid’s World installment on the second stage round at the Professional Darts Corporations (PDC) sixth annual Las Vegas Desert Classic will be brief but that’s not because of all the e-mails I’ve received begging me to stop churning out this crap or because no North …

July 6, 2007
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Darin Young Defeats his Boogey Man

What a day of darts!

Even the uninformed who spout nonsense about cricket being the only route to televised darts success in America must admit that today’s matches held all that it takes to keep an audience in their seats. And Dave ‘Boy” Green …

July 5, 2005
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First Round Results (and Exploding Crickets)

Here’s a FACT for you: If you count the number of times a cricket chirps in a fourteen second interval and add the number thirty-eight to it, you will get the exact temperature of the air in which you (and the cricket) are standing.…

July 4, 2007
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Qualifier Two is Over – and the Stage is Set

Following another late night at one of Binions’ Texas Hold-em tables and three hours sleep, my preparations for today’s second qualifier began in typical Las Vegas tourist fashion with a hearty prime rib breakfast and a wave goodbye to a …

July 3, 2007
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Qualifier One is Over and CARVER ADVANCES!

Today’s installment in the Desert Classic series must begin with a couple of apologies.

To my friend Bill Davis from Philadelphia, who threw terrific darts yesterday during the Player’s Championship: I’m sorry I called you Bill Bell!

To Germany’s Charis Munster: I’m sorry …

July 2, 2007
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The Las Vegas Player’s Championship

In a result unprecedented in darting history, indeed in the history of all sport, thirteen times world champion Phil Taylor today won the Professional Darts Corporation’s (PDC) Las Vegas Player’s Championship without being present.

Reached at his home for comment, Dave ‘Boy’ Green, in his …

July 1, 2007
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The Road to Mandalay (Bay)

By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin’ lazy at the sea,
There’s a Burma girl a-settin’, and I know she thinks o’ me;
For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they say;
“Come you back, you British Soldier; come you back to Mandalay!”…