Howie Reed’s Column

Tuesday, February 13, 2018
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“Big Baby” Lewis, the DRA and the Sword of Damocles

While enjoying the morning “Mia cup of coffee” (no Espresso Macchiato for the Old Dart Coach) he was struck with the realization that he owed Adrian “Big Baby” Lewis a sincere and deeply heartfelt apology.

It’s not easy to …

Friday, February 5, 2018
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MORE about the walk-on girls (and a word about “Big Baby” Lewis)

WARNING: This column will contain the opinions of the Old Dart Coach (as opposed to other columns in which he tries to pass blame onto others by using “questionable” quotation marks).

Sport, including darts, is most …

Friday, January 26, 2018
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A Party at the Tuscany

You Can’t Go Home Again was a 1940 novel published posthumously for author Thomas Wolf. Posthumously means Wolf had “assumed room temperature” as the guy on the radio says. The premise of You Can’t Go Home Again, for those that got no farther …

Wednesday, January 3, 2018
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THANK YOU Philip Douglas Taylor!

The opening line of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It is “All the world’s a stage.” No one remembers that the Old Dart Coach – before he was he Old Dart Coach – appeared in Mrs. Warren’s 9th grade class production of As You …

Thursday, December 28
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The ODC’s second “last” column of 2017

Editor’s note: In his last column of 2017 (which you may now have guessed wasn’t) the Old Dart Coach wrote the following: To clear the slate for the New Year the ODC has a confession to make. He’s in a consensual workplace …

Tuesday, December 19
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Paul Lim – you did us PROUD.  Keep it going!

Aided by copious amounts of Miller Genuine and a nice cigar and to borrow from the Huey Lewis album, Sports: “THIS IS IT” – the ODC’s last column of 2017 (which no doubt will be greeted by cheers from …

Thursday, November 15
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Some advice for the new ADO president

It can be reported with certainty that anyone who plays or has played darts has at one time or another been asked…

“You play darts? How many bulls can you throw?”

After one answers, the inevitable less-than-cute follow up question usually is…

“Seriously?”…

Wednesday, November 1
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The ADO should beg machine operators to take over the sport!

There are times, abeit rather rare, when the Old Dart Coach is spot on.

He may have hit on something recently when he mentioned that the PDC seemed to have “a big tournament every week on TV.” The overall …

Wednesday, October 25, 2017
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You can take a player out of England but you can’t take the England out of the player!

It takes a great deal to shock the Old Dart Coach, even more to jar the very roots of his being.

This happened recently, twice within days.

The ODC was sure …

Monday, October 9, 2017
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WDF World Cup XXI

The World Darts Federation (WDF) with 31 teams recently descended on the city of Kobe, Japan, for World Cup XXI. Little remembered, except for those from Kobe, is that on April 18, 1942, Kobe was one of the targets of the famous Doolittle Raid which …