Dartoid’s Column

May 1, 2001
Column 105
Tampa, Florida

For the past couple of months I’ve been considering a move to Florida — going into business with some old buddies from Tampa. This past week I came down to look around. They took me to a Devil Ray’s baseball game. I’m having second thoughts.

For example, WHAT …

May 1, 2001
Column 104
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

They call it the “Grand Strand” — that alluring, 60-mile string of communities that wanders from the old Little River fishing village to historic Georgetown, the former center of America’s rice empire. I’ll bet you didn’t know that America was once a rice empire?

Years ago …

May 1, 2001
Column 102
Charlotte, North Carolina

If you missed the ADO Masters Finals and the Charlotte Open recently in North Carolina (which is a state somewhere in the south, near Lexington) then, let me tell you, you missed a LOT. You missed the nightly poker game in the Presidential Suite. You missed the …

April 1, 2001
Column 101
“Pop” Goes The Power

With the shocking news about England’s nine-time world darts champion, Phil “The Power” Taylor’s, conviction for “fondling” and “groping” a couple of 23-year-old girls still hot off the press, the question inquiring darters all over the world are asking is, “just what is the difference between …

February 1, 2001
Column 100
Thanks a Ton!

Being as this is my 100th of these little ditties, there are several people to whom I owe a debt of gratitude — who have traveled at least a portion of the crazy path I’ve followed since picking up my first set of darts. Each in their …

January 1, 2001
Column 99
A Computerized Dart?

Second only to the Asian chick, Lola, on Temptation Island the hottest topic these days is the super-secret invention, code-named “Ginger,” set to be unveiled to the world in 2002 by its multi-millionaire inventor, New Hampshire’s Dean Kamen.

According to the investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston …

January 1, 2001
Column 98
Darts Personification

Dart Game
— by Crissi Sweeny

It stared at me, silently challenging me; taunting me with its red eye, it screamed at me to play.
Its eye lit up as I turned on the light.
It silently laughed at me as I stepped up to the line – …

December 1, 2000
Column 97
National Darts Hall of Fame!

If you care about the sport of darts you must try to find a way to support the efforts of Jim Poliquin, Jerry Umberger, Laurett Meddis, Ed Edwards, Elli Nicoll and other dedicated dart people to create a meaningful National Darts Hall of Fame (NDHoF). …

December 1, 2000
Column 96
Baseball Players are Wussies!

Next to the Bush/Gore election results in Palm Beach County the most frightening set of numbers I’ve seen recently are: “36-38-40”. No wonder Bill Clinton chases other women.

The most impressive, albeit obvious, statistic in years however, has got to be the one recently published by …