Darts History… GRAHAM FRITH -THE PHANTOM ARROW 17 Nov 2021 In the Summer of 1967, Ted Cain, the owner of a country club at Kirklinton, near Carlisle, was looking for a different stage attraction to entertain his patrons. He came…
Darts History… NEW ORGANISATION TO TAKE ON THE PDC AND BDO 31 Mar 2020 EMBARGOED UNTIL 12.01 A.M. (1.4.20) News released on the first of the month has reached me that, following a number of high-level meetings of half a dozen miscellaneous and misinformed…
Humour… THOMAS ‘TUMBLE’ TOMPKINS 27 Oct 201918 Nov 2021 Way, way back probably even before the first issue of Dr. Darts’ Newsletter (DDN) was published in 2010, I received an e-mail from Dennis D. an itinerant woodsman asking if…
Darts History… BREXIT IS BAD FOR DARTS 15 Sep 201915 Sep 2019 By the time you read this we here in the UK will all know what is, or isn’t or possibly might be happening as regards the exit of Britain from…
Dartboards and darts… EU DARTBOARD RULING DECLARED ‘CRAZY’ 29 Aug 201921 Oct 2019 The world of darts is this morning reeling from the news that a new European Union (EU) regulation threatens the very existence of the sport. Regulation 1420/16 drafted by the…
Humour HARROWS LAUNCHES ‘DARTOBIKE’ 29 Aug 201921 Oct 2019 Amazing news from Harrows. Always looking for innovative ways of utilising dartboards, Harrows’ Research and Development Department’s New Uses for Dartboards (NUD) team have come up with an idea that…
Games & Setup… Darts Can Still Be Fun! 22 May 201921 Oct 2019 When I was a lot, lot younger than I am now I tended to worry about darts becoming too serious and in this elderly article, written way back when, I…
Humour First Five-Dart 501! 22 May 201921 Dec 2020 AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT – FIRST FIVE-DART 501! A special report from roving reporter Pat Darigit. Matthew Scralenge of the Little Shrimper and Punchbowl pub darts team in West Suffex, England, has…
Humour… The Lighter Side Of Darts 22 May 201921 Dec 2020 Whilst recently rummaging through my data files I discovered an article which was originally written in 2000 for Planetdarts (the original name of the Professional Darts Corporation's website) but somehow…
Humour It’s A Funny Old Game 22 May 201921 Dec 2020 GET AHEAD – GET A HAT In the mid-1980s a landlord from County Durham, England was given a unique present, a hard-hat with two pints strapped to the sides and…
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