Thursday, January 5, 2012
Column HR62
The curse of the fickle finger… and other stuff!
Sports fans in the USA (and that’s what counts) are aware of the curse of a Sports Illustrated cover…
Being an athlete and appearing on the cover of SI moves a career in the direction of wearing a nametag when …
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Howie Reed's Column
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Column 422
An Open Letter about DARTS to Kim Jong-un
Dear Jong-un…
Please accept my deepest condolences to you and your family on the death of your father and also my apology for addressing you informally. I mean no disrespect. I write in friendship to ask for an invitation to come …
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Dartoid's Column
Friday, December 23, 2011
Column HR61
Merry Christmas… and don’t hit on a chick named Holly with an Adam’s apple!
‘Tiz that time of the year when we join together to sing at the top of our baby voices, “Deck the halls with balls from Holly.”
Balls from Holly?
Well yes, as Holly use to …
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Howie Reed's Column
Friday, December 2, 2011
Column 421
Eddie Norman – Darts Ambassador
When I read Frau Charis Mutschler’s hervorragend recent interview with Eddie Norman for Global Darts I immediately sent off a message asking if I could reprint the interview at Dartoid’s World. To say I was pleased to receive her okay would be an understatement……
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Column HR60
Stay thirsty my friends and thanks!
Anyone with a scintilla of an education (a GED works here) knows that the phrase “Go West Young Man” was coined by Horace Greeley. Its genesis is attributed to an 1865 New York Times editorial encouraging young men to move west to take …
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Howie Reed's Column
Friday, November 11, 2011
Column HR59
Some free advice for Chris Helms
In his many years staggering down the tungsten trail the Old Dart Coach never accused the “Godfathers” of the WDF of being of being fissiparous. The thought never entered either of the brain cells that had not been affected by copious amounts of …
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Howie Reed's Column
Friday, October 28, 2011
Column 420
Jerry Van Loan – Does Darts and America Proud
Fanned (and rightly so) by the Old Dart Coach, Howie Reed, there’s been a bit of banter in recent weeks (although hardly enough) about the World Cup and finagling by Olly Croft, Roy Price and possibly outgoing American Darts Organization …
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Dartoid's Column
Friday, October 28, 2011
Column HR58
Goblins, Werewolves and CRYBABIES
It’s the time of the year, as the leaves turn orange and goblins appear, that Toeing the Oche rolls out its annual Halloween column. Whoops, as the Old Dart Coach has just been reminded, “there is no annual Halloween column,” which most would agree poses …
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Howie Reed's Column
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Column HR57
Brendan “Cinderfella” Dolan
“The report of my death was been greatly exaggerated” was the text of a telegram sent by Mark Twain to the New York Journal after the newspaper reported his death. Twain was in London at the time, probably sharing a few pints, tossing a few darts …
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Howie Reed's ColumnSunday, October 2, 2011
Column 419
Who are we?
In the Year 2000, according to a survey conducted by the American Darts Organization (ADO) the average dart player in this country was 38 years old, so I guess you and I are now about 50. In my case (and the Old Dart Coach’s) this is …
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