Category: Darts
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Taylor handed half year ban
English darts player Dom Taylor has received a six month suspension from the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) having failed drug testing in the midst of the recently concluded World Darts Championship at the Alexandra Palace. Taylor was ejected from the race for the Sid Waddell Trophy after traces of Cannabis and Cocaine were found in…
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Rocky by split decision?
The inclusion of Antrim’s Josh Rock is probably the biggest talking point in relation to the declared runners for the forthcoming Premier League Darts which was announced this evening (Monday). There’s no doubting the class of the man they call ‘Rocky’ or the merits of him being in the field. Where there would be entitled…
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The greatest illustration that there is no ‘I’ in team
To the best of my recollection, there were only two occasions on which yours truly left Croke Park in tears. In the aftermath of the 1995 Leinster SFC Final. And likewise at the end of the Sam Maguire Cup showdown against Galway half a dozen years later. The common thread between the two occasions being…
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A not unexpected final pairing
At the outset here, you, our readers, deserve an explanation. Firstly, though, a word of thanks for making our almost daily coverage of the PDC World Darts Championship so well received. On that very point though, I must apologise for the lack of a post on quarter final day. One was otherwise occupied with a…
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Eagle and the Hood stay in title race as legends turn back time
In a piece in this space immediately prior to what you will ingest hereafter, mention was made of the fact that, at that point, for certain players, their victories were of the breakthrough variety. Well, as much as that truly was the case, the next stages have provided inclinations that those advancing from same can…
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A breakthrough day for newcomers
No matter what sport you are either involved in or have even a passing interest in, if you were/are lucky enough to experience success, the journey to same has to start somewhere. From a perspective of matters close to home, it could either be said that the Centenary Cup in 1984 or Leinster SFC Final…
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Scotsman takes flight as Heavy Metal and the big hitters tune up
Did you ever look at the betting market for something and consider the odds to be so distorted they could be considered fake? During the year just ending, for three of their Championship matches, Meath were available at a minimum of 6s in a two horse race. And they ended up defeating Dublin, Kerry and…
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The Eagle hangs out with The Shed as The Ferret burrows through
Whether in sport or any other facet of life, everybody has their own individual way of doing things. Salt and vinegar or not on chips, either reading newspapers in ‘hard copy’ form or on some sort of device. Darts is no different to anything else in life within those parametres. At one end of the…
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Breakthroughs, consolidation and a great pity
Sometimes, how you get there doesn’t matter as long as you reach the intended destination. For example, Irish soccer fans would gladly have put up with the snore fest scoreless draw against Egypt in order to secure safe passage to the knockout stages of the 1990 World Cup. Likewise, those Meath supporters who braved the…
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Speed, horsepower and Razzmatazz
After a trying day and a bit on a personal level when everything that possibly could go wrong did so, time for another in the series of articles looking back on what has transpired at the PDC World Championship in the Alexandra Palace, London, since last time the keyboard last took a tapping on the…