Saturday, August 1, 2026
Column 721
The Absurdity of Banning Lawn Darts While Celebrating Holidays with Explosives
Every Independence Day, millions of Americans celebrate by setting off – or gathering to watch – explosives. It’s a tradition so familiar that few people question it. 
We simply accept the injuries, deaths, fires, pollution, terrified animals, sleepless …
Thursday, July 30, 2026
Column 720
Beat Luke. Win a Half-million Quid!
On October 30, Netflix will give twenty ordinary British darts players the opportunity of a lifetime… or, depending on your point of view, the opportunity to be publicly humiliated.
The concept is gloriously simple.
Beat Luke Littler in a single leg of 501… …
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Dartoid's ColumnSaturday, July 18, 2026
Column 719
John Lowe MBE – the Classiest Man in Darts
I first met John Lowe in the mid-1990s at an exhibition he and Cliff Lazerenko staged on Cape Cod following the Witch City Open. Like just about every player in the room, I was a little awestruck.
At the time, …
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Dartoid's ColumnWednesday, July 1, 2026
Column 718
Darts in the Olympics?
Recently, I woke up, poured a cup of coffee, and learned – somewhere between the second sip and my dogs demanding breakfast – that flag football is now an Olympic sport.
Flag football!
In the Olympic Games!
Now, I don’t want to sound unreasonable (at …
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Monday, June 29, 2026
Column 717
John Part – a memory for your birthday (has it really been 23 years!)
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 …
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Monday, June 1, 2026
Column 716
The Old Guard, the New Breed… and the Space In Between
There was a time – not all that long ago, though it now feels like it belongs to a different century – when a professional darts player looked like he’d just wandered in from a long afternoon at …
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Dartoid's ColumnMonday, May 11, 2026
Column 715
Dartoid’s Book – Get It While It’s HOT!
I went hunting the other day…
Not for trouble (though that has a way of finding me), and not for a d16 (though that continues to elude me), but for a book by my late friend George Silberzahn – a man …
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Friday, April 30, 2026
Column 714
Beau Greaves!!!
There are “moments” in darts when the noise fades just a bit – when the chatter in the pub dips, the scorer leans forward, and even the guy who hasn’t hit a double since the George W. Bush administration steadies himself for a look.
You don’t see …
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Friday, April 10, 2026
Column 713
I miss my friend, Howie Reed
This is from one year ago.
It’s hard to believe it’s been that long since the darts world lost Howie Reed.
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April 10, 2025
This may be the most difficult column I’ve ever written…
The crazy thing is that the “plan” was …
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Dartoid's ColumnTuesday, April 1, 2026
Column 712
Darts on the Edge of the Arctic Circle
It began, as these things often do, with a message that made no sense.
“Pack light. Bring your darts. Just get yourself to Reykjavík.”
Now, I’ve played darts in some strange places over the years – a rooftop in Hanoi, a …
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