Tuesday, July 21, 2020
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Ant ATTACK!
Some years ago, I threw league darts with a former pro from Houston named Dave “Buddha” Fasnacht. He helped me with my stance and my grip and my mental game. And he gave me some advice that I’ve been trying to follow ever since. According to Buddha …
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Monday, June 8, 2020
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Johnny
Mark Twain once described India as a “land of dreams and romance, of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, of splendor and rags, of palaces and hovels… of genii and giants and Aladdin lamps.” Rudyard Kipling wrote of India’s “heat and smells and oils and spices and puffs of …
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Sunday, May 24, 2020
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Diddling Miss Powell
If you’re at all like me the reason you took French in high school was because the teacher was a hot little number with a sexy voice named Miss Powell. Watching Miss Powell scribble cute little verbs on the black board was pretty special to me …
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Wednesday, April 1, 2020
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Seal Boy is REAL – and now throws darts, in the Philippines!
It’s true what they say, “Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.”
When I was a kid, I was a swimmer, a pretty fast swimmer. My time for the 100 fly (52.6 – short course – in …
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Dartoid's ColumnTuesday, February 25, 2020
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Is somebody murdering dart players?
Down here in the “Real Texas,” Amarillo to be precise (where the phrase “nice bull” doesn’t generally refer to a little red circle on a dart board), darter Ray Fournier of the West Texas Darts Association (WTDA) weaved a tale that simply has to …
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Dartoid's ColumnWednesday, January 8, 2020
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Hey Trump – please spare darts in Iran!
This 2007 column is old but perhaps worth sharing again given current circumstances.
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While I had hoped business travel might coincide with the 13th staging of the Asia Pacific Cup in Kuala Lumpur in September, it was not to be. …
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Dartoid's ColumnTuesday, December 31, 2019
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Happy New Year!
My plans for welcoming the New Millennium were set 26 years ago (now 45!) in Kalamazoo, Michigan. In fact, when the beer ran out and as the sun began to cast its glow across the snow on the first morning of 1974, my roommates and I …
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Dartoid's ColumnThursday, December 12, 2019
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Baggish, Campbell, Young – can they do it?
As the holiday season begins and the 2020 PDC world championship moves into full swing – with £2.5 million on offer (an amazing £500,00 to the winner) – talk within the North America darts community naturally keeps coming back to an …
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Dartoid's ColumnMonday, December 7, 2019
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The mysterious disappearance of the Old Dart Coach!
As many have heard by now Howie Reed aka the “Old Dart Coach” (to darts fans around the world), the “Manor Lord” (to boxing fans around the world) and “Mr. Wonderful” (to more women than even Wilt Chamberlain has known) has …
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Monday, December 2, 2019
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Capone!
A while back I blew into the Windy City, headed straight for what is arguably one of the best darts bars in the States and got blown right back out… by a computer!
Now, I’ve probably whiled away more hours in more darts bars in more cities in …
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