Dartoid’s Column

June 1, 2005
Column 184
Boracay Island

The plane is rising, dropping, rattling, shaking it’s way through the storm as it descends towards Kalibo. My hands grip the sides of my seat in fear. The seaweed muffin and tomato juice the flight attendant gave me are churning in my stomach. I close my eyes. Somehow …

May 20, 2005
Column 183
“Cheers” to Justin Irwin — a Man with GUTS!

“Only in America,” penned someone recently, “can a poor black boy grow up to be a rich white woman, like Michael Jackson.” “Only in America,” boxing promoter Don King is fond of saying…

But never in America — only in England …

May 18, 2005
Column 182
The Greatest Match That Never Was — is GONNA BE!!!

If you’re not a regular reader of this column or were not at the 2004 Professional Darts Corporation’s (PDC) Las Vegas Desert Classic III Darts Tournament, you may not be aware of the INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT that occurred.

I won’t rehash …

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 …