6/1/ 12 Wooly Bully #darts Dartoid's World

One might think that watching a Conga line of eight players throw at the bulls-eye for ten hours straight in an attempt to break a world record that was out of reach after the first hour or two would be a sure formula for some shut-eye. It wasn’t. Not on May 5th at Rob’s Billiards and Sports Lounge in Ft. Worth, Texas.
Possibly this is because Americans know Brits are shits and we’re certain that even though we did fall short of their record we’ll top it eventually. We’re winners not whiners.
But more likely it’s because of the song.
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#darts Dartoid's World 4/1/12 Lady Gaga interview

Dartoid interviews (and throws darts) with Lady Gaga!
"Then I got to thinking. Darts promoter (and two time Emmy winner) David Irete seems to know everybody, everywhere. Well known among old-timers as the man behind the opening video of the 30th North American Open Darts Tournament (NAODT), today Irete produces the popular Darts Around the World podcast and has recently been tapped to produce Stage 7 of the DARTSLIVE “The World” tour from the Riviera in Las Vegas. For years he’s been an associate director for Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune and in the 1990s was involved in productions of the Academy and Golden Globe Awards. He knows people! He’s even a close personal friend of Dino M. Zaffina, who is a dick...(read articles: Dastardly Deeds in Darts and Dino M. Zaffina is not Angry)"
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#darts World Record Attempt - February 1, 2012 Dartoid's World

Beginning at noon on May 5, Rob’s will be the site of the First Annual Charity Bull-a-Thon and World Record attempt. Eight Americans – Chris Allen, Chris Helms, Les Twinam, Andrea Taylor, Byron Dossey, Davis Snider, Connley Litton, and Gordon Goodwin – will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for "The most Bull’s Eyes by a Team in 10 Hours" that was set in January of 2011 by a team in England, spearheaded by former world champion Bob Anderson.
The record currently stands at 1,505 double bulls. Yep, the little red bit.
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#darts Dartoid's World 11/23/11

With "Be thirsty my friends and thanks" the Old Dart Coach stops by today to do what we all do on Thanksgiving - give thanks and, with in-laws visiting, be a little sarcastic but in a polite sort of way.
An excerpt: Gal Pal Anne Kramer ended her long-standing life on the west coast with play that puts her in the National ADO Finals. Congratulations! Anne and her husband JK are on their way to New Jersey to start a new darting life. East Coast: you have been warned. He’s yours now!
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The European Championships Aug. 3, 2011 Dartoids World Article #darts

Greetings!

Today, with his column The European Championships, the Old Dart Coach contemplates the return to the predictable "order" of life at the upper echelons of the darting world:

There is supposed to be “order” in the world. While people may not like it, gripe about it or approve of it they are comfortable and somewhat accepting. When that order is disturbed there is a malady that hangs over the populace.

The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Okay, good idea. Clowns are elected to public office, spend every penny the government collects, then raise taxes for more money, blame the taxpayer for not paying enough and then said clowns are expected to solve the problem they caused.

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Aug. 1, 2011 Dartoids World Article #darts

Darts ain’t an Olympic shoo-in – there’s (plastic) competition!

They call him the “Dragon” and he’s a former world champion. He has basked in the glory of his ‘sport,’ one that some describe as “just the right mix of skill and intellect.” Growing older and with a family, he is still highly regarded, puts in the practice and travels frequently in his quest to add another world championship to his resume. And he’s currently one of the most well known and popular promoters of his game.

But who is the Dragon? And with recent rumblings of a push to see his ‘sport’ added as a demonstration activity at the 2012 London Olympics one must also ask: Why the hell is the Olympics in London?

Was Toledo booked?

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Interview with Scott MacKenzie - Global #Darts

Some of you might perhaps remember Scott MacKenzie from the PDC World Championship 2011. He had qualified to represent "Greater China" and met in the preliminary round German player Jyhan Artut. Interview with Scott MacKenzie

Some of you might perhaps remember Scott MacKenzie from the PDC World Championship 2011. He had qualified to represent "Greater China" and met in the preliminary round German player Jyhan Artut.
more at:
http://www.globaldarts.de/globalDartsEN/interviews/ScottMacKenzie.html

The 2011 Soft Tip World Championship, Hong Kong
For years Dartoid’s World has made the case that the center of the darts universe has been shifting.
Now it has.
I have written that the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) should wake up and smell the noodles, that it should take its act to Asia. It hasn’t.
more at:
http://www.dartoidsworld.com/columns/416.html
 

2011 Soft-tip Darts World Championships Results:
http://darts-theworld.com/en/result/2011/07/stage-4.html

Dartoid's World :|: Column 45 :: Wankin' to the Darts at the Temple of Tungsten #darts

This past weekend those who worship at the Temple of Tungsten were, as they say down south, in Hog Heaven. They had arrived in nirvana. They were the dog that arrived in heaven to find a “thousands miles of telephone poles with a belly full of pee.” It just doesn’t get any better. If able to receive Sky TV or even Justin TV on computers worshipers were treated to three days of the “best dog-gone TV darts” in the history of the world. The event, the Speedy Hire UK Open, had total price money of £500,000 with £200,000 on the line at Reebok Stadium in Bolton for the 172 who “toed the oche.”
What qualified this event as the “best TV darts” ever was that it had everything of a great TV show? It had heroes, villains, great darts from great players, lousy darts from great players, brilliant comebacks, great collapses, maybe the changing of the guard and of course heartwarming stories. In short a “one off.”

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Dartoid's World :|: Column 45 :: Wankin' to the Darts at the Temple of Tungsten

Dartoid's World - The Diary of an Unhealthy #Dart Throwing Slug. Week Three of Nine.

Today is Valentine’s Day and I am traveling. I’m on a US Airways flight as I write – headed to Bethesda and then Ukfield, East Sussex for some business and darts. Yesterday I gave my wife a special Valentine’s Day present so all is okay. I gave her a chocolate covered vacuum.

The infamous Dave “Boy” Green has been giving me crap again at the Stars of Darts forum. Green has made a name for himself with his mouth – by challenging people to money games and losing his arse. He’s such a silly little boy. Over and over he sets himself up to be pulverized. Probably he got is arse kicked at conkers too.

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#darts from the email stack... Dartoid's World Feb. 1, 2011

Greetings!
Today’s Dartoid’s World issue is a joke but not of the sort readers have grown accustom to finding in this space. It’s not about any of the screwy things that are found out and about the wacky world of our sport.
In fact, it’s not even about darts.
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#darts from the email stack... Dartoid's World Jan. 19, 2011

Greetings!
DON'T MISS today's column by The Old Dart Coach, Howie Reed. "Take a lesson from darts history," he writes, "There's not much left to lose!"
Click here for Howie's newest column.

Dartoids World 1-6-2011, #darts

Greetings!

The Old Dart Coach, Howie Reed, wraps up his coverage of the World Championships today at Dartoid's World:

A number of years ago a young English dart player was in Las Vegas to play in the Las Vegas Desert Classic. Being big for his age – actually he’s big for any age – he was playing the slots at a popular Strip casino.

He “allegedly” hit a jackpot for an “alleged” $72,000 dollars. When he “allegedly” tried to collect he encountered a small problem -

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Dartoids World 12-24-2010, #darts

Despite a severe case of "Whips and Jingles," the Old Dart Coach Howie Reed (along with Mel Torme) is back this Christmas Eve with holiday wishes, commentary on the first week of the World Championships and a no-nonsense thought or two (with a healthy assist from Anne Kramer) about Dick Allix's recent column in BEN.

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Dartoids World 8-14-2010, #darts

Greetings!
Both Dartoid and The Old Dart Coach, Howie Reed, are back with new columns today! The T'oid's is brief while the ODC's is the usual length but there is a similarity to their subjects.
Dartoid: There is a fundamental difference between promoting with zeal and knowingly misleading people in an effort to garner attention and profit for your enterprise.
Howie: Toeing the Oche has for the most part been positive on the Professional Darts Corporation. They, the PDC, have accomplished in fewer than 15 years what the sport couldn't accomplish in the 500 years prior. A TV contract, the end of phony draws, real rankings and a new level of excellence from the oche. “So what’s the beef ?” With success sometimes those responsible for achievement feel empowered. In their own minds they become anointed as infallible and all-knowing.
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Dartoids World 8-2-2010, #darts

Greetings!
The Old Dart Coach, Howie Reed, is back - with a rundown on the PartyPoker.com European Championships. Phil Taylor took the Big Bucks but it's Howie who is "over the moon."
Back in the day when the Old Dart Coach was the Old Rodeo Guy the days around July 4th used to be called “Cowboy’s Christmas.” The name emerged from a string of rodeos around that holiday that could make or break a cowboy’s year. Now with darts a professional sport the PartyPoker.com European Championships could well be darts’ Boxing Day. If the premise is accepted, I hereby proclaim that The World Matchplay was dart players’ Christmas and welcome you to The Stadthalle in Dinslaken, Germany for Boxing Day. With £200,000 in prize money, including £50,000 for Phil Taylor, this tournament is a big deal, with 31 players fighting for £20,000 in runner up money.
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Dartoids World 8-1-2010, #darts

Column 394
Darts in Costa Rica

A recent Gallop World Poll ranked Costa Rica 6th among the World’s Happiest Counties. Costa Rica was topped only by Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, which all racked up heavy points due to the “predominance of long-legged blonds in Scandinavia,” and Holland, “because of, like, um, they’ve got

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Dartoids World 7-26-2010, #darts

Greetings!

Taylor Does a Tchaikovsky! Bromberg Gits ‘er Done!

The 1812 Overture goes “da da da da da BOOM... da da da da da da BOOM” and that’s how this 18-12, in Taylor’s, favor went. Things went along melodic as a symphony when all of a sudden a cannon would BOOM.

Click here to read Howie "The Old Dart Coach" Reed's wrap-up of the 2010 StanJames World Matchplay.

Dartoids World 6-27-2010, #darts

Greetings!

On a scorching hot Las Vegas mid-day the first dart was thrown in anger for the new World Series of Darts Festival. The clever Yanks had lured the wily Brits into a game of cricket. While named for the English game that is more sleep inducing than a speech by Al Gore North America’s game of cricket darts is a spellbinder -

Click here for the rest of Howie Reed's first column - about Cricket Day - from the Las Vegas World Series of Darts Festival.

youth #darts fund-raising appeal... “Cold Blooded” Miles and Shannon Gallagher

If you can possibly send a contribution – $10, $25, $50, $100 or more, or less – to help a couple of kids chase their darts dream it will be gratefully appreciated.

The fund-raising goal to enable their participation in this year’s Youth Nationals is $1,200. About half of the amount has already been pledged or collected. A deposit for their entries has been sent to Katie Harris at the ADO office. But the balance must be raised quickly since the competition is drawing near.

details at the following link http://www.dartoidsworld.com

Dartoid's Column 5-17-2010

Greetings!

It should come as no surprise that Patrick Chaplin’s more than decade-long research earned him the first and only Ph.D. “in darts” from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge in 2006 – and darts enthusiasts everywhere are in for an indulgence now that a popular treatment of Chaplin’s dissertation is available on the market.

Chaplin’s dissertation-turned-treatise, Darts in England, 1900-1939 – A Social History (Manchester University Press, 2009), is -

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