Dartoid’s Column

July 1, 2003
Column 144
A New Book’s Bein’ Written

I’m speechless.

Wordless, if that’s a word.

I’ve been sitting in front of my computer screen for nearly two hours.

What can one say?

What words does one use to capture what John Part did to Phil Taylor yesterday in the semi-finals of the Las …

July 1, 2003
Column 143
And then… there were EIGHT

From a starting field of 128 of the best shooters in the world just Phil Taylor, John Part, Alan Warrnier, Dennis Smith, Steve Beaton, Peter Manley, Roland Scholten and Colin Lloyd are still standing here at the Professional Darts Corporation’s (PDC) second annual Las Vegas …

July 1, 2003
Column 142
Heidi Darts?

So there I was, relaxing on the couch. On the table to my right were a few spent bottles of Michelob Amber Bock, my beer of choice ever since the American Darts Association’s (ADA), Glenn Remick, closed his big deal with Anheuser-Busch. At my feet was my golden …

July 1, 2003
Column 140
I’m Rooting for Kari Stevenson

The news this morning is that Cincinnati’s Tony Payne, after ten years off the circuit, is BACK!

Go America! Whack them Brits!

After the first two qualifying rounds at this year’s Las Vegas Desert Classic, Payne currently stands as the lone American to have made …

July 1, 2003
Column 139
The Desert Classic

The deal’s done and I’m hyped.

Recently I quit my job and moved to Clearwater, Florida. But this isn’t what I’m excited about, even though Clearwater’s home to the original HOOTERS!!!

I’ve already joined a darts team. My captain’s an old friend from Virginia Beach. Gina Miller’s …

June 1, 2003
Column 138
Philadelphia Moments

A team came from jolly olde England, to fun city, on St Patrick’s Day
“The best in the world,” they were touted, when they came to the U.S. to play
It is true that they were never beaten, and were entitled to worldwide fame
But the team brimmed …

May 1, 2003
Column 137
Champeen of da World!!

In 1999 I sat down in a bar outside of Toronto to interview John Part. He’d won the Embassy in 1994, was ranked 6th by the World Darts Federation and was holding down the number one spot in Canada, a country somewhere near America.

We’d met …

April 1, 2003
Column 136
Bananas, Tigers and Jane Fonda

Tucked away somewhere in the “sweaty hubbub of Vietnam’s capital of Hanoi is an air-conditioned oasis of American military life they call ‘The Ranch.'” According to Newsweek’s chief political correspondent, Howard Fineman, the installation is equipped with “basketball and volleyball courts, clipped lawns, a motel-style …

March 1, 2003
Column 135
A Leg in the Set of Life

For the past thirty-five years my father’s been kickin’ my ass at golf. It really pisses me off. And he knows it.

When he calls me he always asks how my golf game is. My answer is always the same. I tell him …