Golfers call it "the yips," an affliction that causes a normally steady putter to suddenly lose all control of his flat stick. In baseball circles, it's sometimes referred to as "the thing," and former major league second baseman Steve Sax can testify that losing the ability to make the short throw from his position to first base was as frustrating as it was inexplicable.
Escondido's J.D. Newman knows the feeling. A little more than a year ago, he came down with a debilitating case of "dartitis."
Newman, a top-level amateur dart thrower who has been playing the popular pub game all his life, suddenly couldn't have hit a bullseye if it were the size of a basketball rim. For someone who enters competitions nearly every weekend, it was serious as if he had suddenly forgotten how to drive his car or tie his shoes.
more at:
http://www.nctimes.com/sports/community/community-sports-escondido-s-newman-finds-sport-to-be-a/article_13dedfd4-63b7-5f2b-bb61-fcdb1472b324.html
Showing posts with label darts in the news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label darts in the news. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Saturday, December 18, 2010
#Darts team’s invite to national tournament a dream come
true for March man after breast cancer battle
A POLICEMAN who is recovering from breast cancer has seen a dream come true after being chosen to contest a national darts tournament with the March team he has played with for more than 25 years.
Mark Cross, 42, who had an operation to remove his left breast last October, will compete in the inaugural Ladbrokes Lads Cup at Alexandra Palace, alongside three of his lifelong friends.
More at:
http://www.cambstimes.co.uk/news/darts_team
A POLICEMAN who is recovering from breast cancer has seen a dream come true after being chosen to contest a national darts tournament with the March team he has played with for more than 25 years.
Mark Cross, 42, who had an operation to remove his left breast last October, will compete in the inaugural Ladbrokes Lads Cup at Alexandra Palace, alongside three of his lifelong friends.
More at:
http://www.cambstimes.co.uk/news/darts_team
Sunday, October 26, 2008
It’s so wonderful to be back on the oche
DARTS: Results, fixtures and gossip – All the latest news from around the local oches from our man in the know
I am astonished, and feeling very humble I should add, that people should feel strongly enough about the game of darts that they got together a petition to restore my column to the pages of the News & Star every Saturday. Mine has to be the shortest retirement in the history of journalism. (full article)
I am astonished, and feeling very humble I should add, that people should feel strongly enough about the game of darts that they got together a petition to restore my column to the pages of the News & Star every Saturday. Mine has to be the shortest retirement in the history of journalism. (full article)
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Broward-Palm Beach - News - Thunk! You Lose - browardpalmbeach.com
From time to time I wonder why the sport of darts has such a bad image problem, but then I stumble across an article like this that makes it clear to me...
On a recent Tuesday at Turn 3, a West Boca Raton dive bar that hosts dart league play, a representative from the Florida Dart Association is trying to persuade New Times to omit the best part of this story.
"Please don't print that," begs Ivan Hulan, a short, spiky-haired man with the shifty-eyed look of William H. Macy playing a salesman.
Sorry, man. That's our job.
Hulan takes a step back, arms akimbo, and bows his head. Hulan believes in darts with all his heart. Darts are moving up. People are excited about darts. It's got the Everyman appeal, the gritty bar setting, the possibility of big, corporate-sponsored tournaments. And now, it's as if this newspaper is going to publish the first-ever negative story about a darts league. (All right, there was that 6,000-word story in Sports Illustrated in 2001, showing how the game, even at the highest level of play, is inseparable from beer. This infuriated dart enthusiasts everywhere, including those I'm now interviewing, who are pretty much breathing Amberboch.)
This could be bad for darts.
Broward-Palm Beach - News - Thunk! You Lose - browardpalmbeach.com
If we ever want to bring the sport of darts into the main stream we will have to combat situations like the one in the article. We will have to try very hard to highlight the good that we do in our sport, show off the charitable work that we do and promote the outstanding class individuals that help build the sport.
....
There are now letters to the editor about the article....
I have teams with doctors, engineering managers, airport controllers, corporate executives, etc., and they don't act "stoopid" and throw darts at each other (although I think they'd want to sometimes when they meet the crazies).
Full content of the letters at:
Broward-Palm Beach - News - Letters for May 10, 2007 - browardpalmbeach.com
Maybe darts could learn a thing or two from billiards:
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., largest U.S. manufacturers of billiard and bowling equipment. Brunswick, which has done a lot to make bowling respectable, is now out to do as much for pool. Brunswick is well aware that many of the nation's 32,000 pool halls are only fronts; they are often gambling and bookie joints, or at best, no place for a lady. B-B-C employees are fined $1 every time they say "pool"; they must say "pocket billiards."
In trying to get out from behind the eight-ball,* B-B-C has made a big decision : to give up on the present generation of pool players.
....
B-B-C is concentrating its crusading efforts on 300,000 Boys' Club members and sending experts like Mosconi, Crane and trick-shot specialist Charlie Peterson to college campuses to demonstrate and stir up interest. There are now some 130 college billiard teams (including Cornell, Princeton, Ohio State). The current champion: University of Minnesota. This summer B-B-C will open its first model billiard room in the Midwest. It will have air conditioning, indirect lighting and a swanky soda bar. Stroy Link...
On a recent Tuesday at Turn 3, a West Boca Raton dive bar that hosts dart league play, a representative from the Florida Dart Association is trying to persuade New Times to omit the best part of this story.
"Please don't print that," begs Ivan Hulan, a short, spiky-haired man with the shifty-eyed look of William H. Macy playing a salesman.
Sorry, man. That's our job.
Hulan takes a step back, arms akimbo, and bows his head. Hulan believes in darts with all his heart. Darts are moving up. People are excited about darts. It's got the Everyman appeal, the gritty bar setting, the possibility of big, corporate-sponsored tournaments. And now, it's as if this newspaper is going to publish the first-ever negative story about a darts league. (All right, there was that 6,000-word story in Sports Illustrated in 2001, showing how the game, even at the highest level of play, is inseparable from beer. This infuriated dart enthusiasts everywhere, including those I'm now interviewing, who are pretty much breathing Amberboch.)
This could be bad for darts.
Broward-Palm Beach - News - Thunk! You Lose - browardpalmbeach.com
If we ever want to bring the sport of darts into the main stream we will have to combat situations like the one in the article. We will have to try very hard to highlight the good that we do in our sport, show off the charitable work that we do and promote the outstanding class individuals that help build the sport.
....
There are now letters to the editor about the article....
I have teams with doctors, engineering managers, airport controllers, corporate executives, etc., and they don't act "stoopid" and throw darts at each other (although I think they'd want to sometimes when they meet the crazies).
Full content of the letters at:
Broward-Palm Beach - News - Letters for May 10, 2007 - browardpalmbeach.com
Maybe darts could learn a thing or two from billiards:
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., largest U.S. manufacturers of billiard and bowling equipment. Brunswick, which has done a lot to make bowling respectable, is now out to do as much for pool. Brunswick is well aware that many of the nation's 32,000 pool halls are only fronts; they are often gambling and bookie joints, or at best, no place for a lady. B-B-C employees are fined $1 every time they say "pool"; they must say "pocket billiards."
In trying to get out from behind the eight-ball,* B-B-C has made a big decision : to give up on the present generation of pool players.
....
B-B-C is concentrating its crusading efforts on 300,000 Boys' Club members and sending experts like Mosconi, Crane and trick-shot specialist Charlie Peterson to college campuses to demonstrate and stir up interest. There are now some 130 college billiard teams (including Cornell, Princeton, Ohio State). The current champion: University of Minnesota. This summer B-B-C will open its first model billiard room in the Midwest. It will have air conditioning, indirect lighting and a swanky soda bar. Stroy Link...
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