Dartoid’s Column

May 1, 2005
Column 181
Start Young

“Looking for pretty young girl who likes football (Go Eagles!) and basketball (AI is da Man!), Blink 182, Rodney Mullen, and Darin Young, going out for pizza, chillin’, can do a “360 Flip” and is willing to play around the clock. Spitting okay.”

Now, before someone out there …

April 1, 2005
Column 180
When You Throw Mud You Lose Ground

“Man and his deeds are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation, and a wicked deed disapprobation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be.”

– Mohandas Gandhi…

March 1, 2005
Column 178
Let’s Turn Back the Clock — for Charity

Aside from the expected (my not winning a single leg in four qualifying rounds) last year at the Professional Darts Corporation’s (PDC) Las Vegas Desert Classic, my greatest disappointment was the unexpected last-minute disqualification of Lubbock, Texas’s Ricky Villanueva. As Dick Allix …

February 1, 2005
Column 177
I’m Gonna be World Champion!

It was three decades ago — 1974. It was the year the course of my darts career was set. I was twenty-one years old.

It was the same year that Richard Nixon was impeached, resigned the presidency, and was pardoned by Gerald Ford. Patricia Hearst …

January 1, 2005
Column 176
The Carnival Miracle, Darts and the Little Bird

Here is some advice for male darters everywhere, notably those of you who are approaching an important anniversary with your significant other and are thinking of taking a cruise: pack either your darts or your woman, NOT both.

To think you can …

December 14, 2004
Column 175
Babel Darts

One dark and dreary night, almost ten years ago, I wrote my first column about darts. It was a horrendous piece of writing (not that I have improved over the years) and a sad, sad day for the sport of darts.

I posted it from Beijing (a city …

December 1, 2004
Column 174
A NICE Story about Tonya Harding and Darts

There is one thing I want to make perfectly clear: it was my wife, Marylou, who put it in my mind to track down Bad Girl Tonya Harding, arrange to hook up for a few games of darts, and then write this …

November 1, 2004
Column 173
We’re Called the Little Willies. We’re BAD. We lie.

I joined a new darts league recently. It’s called the BAD League. I’m not sure what it was called before I showed up.

I’m also not sure why my other league threw me out.

And I sure as hell have no …

October 12, 2004
Column 172
Call Samuel N. Zammuto and tell him what YOU think!

LONDON (Reuters) — In a move that sent shock waves throughout the international darting community yesterday, Tim Darby, Chief Executive of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) announced that eleven-time World Champion, Phil Taylor, is to be banned from all PDC-sanctioned …