Tag: Live Darts
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Cross comes crashing down at first hurdle
One of the hazards of being in this line of work is being wrong. In terms of predicting the outcome of events, in this instance. Then again, punditry is mostly guess work with a bit of background information for optics. Doing so for GAA matches or horse racing is one thing, venturing into other sporting…
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Danny bags the Jackpot as Lewis’s struggles continue
Stop the presses. The Americans are good to go. Nobody does ‘Big’ like the US. They’re annoyingly obsessed with big. Whoever wins the NBA are World Champions in basketball, even though the 30-team league comprises only teams from the stars and stripes and one from their neighbouring clover leaf. It has been admitted here umpteen…
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Feisty Huybrechts returns to form
There has been so much sporting activity ongoing across various codes in the last few days that there are a few days worth of action at the World Darts Championship to be caught up with. Now read on… First out of the traps on Saturday was Carlow’s Steve Lennon. The man from Barrowside recorded a…
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The oldest swinger in town steals the show
February 3rd, 2016. The day my world as it was up to the point fell apart. One of my best friends, Aidan Ward, died. Hours later, my mother went into hospital for surgery which turned life as we knew it upside down for our entire family. Little was it realised, though, that Aidan’s passing was…
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Two guys called Jose, two winning machines
Jose Mourinho must be having a right laugh to himself. As only he could. While his Tottenham team at the very least keep pace with immensely endowed Liverpool, Ole Gunnar Solksjaer lurches from one disaster to the next. After it initially looked like things had fallen into place as predicted – Mourinho out of touch…
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Timing is everything as Gurney wins Irish derby
At this time every year, those of us who succumbed to the lure of the darts a long time ago face the usual barrage of scepticism from the unconverted that affairs of the arrows aren’t actually sporting matters. Aside from pointing out the intricacies of the skill set required to prosper on the oche, the…
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Form holds firmer than fairytales
I must admit it came as a major shock to me to discover Fallon Sherrock isn’t in the field for this year’s PDC event at the Ally Pally. Initially, my line of that was that was done to the demise of the British Darts Organisation (BDO) when in fact it was down to the player…
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Irish eyes are smiling as Limerick’s wonderful week continues
There are times as a sportsperson, or fan, that you expect to wake up and realise what you just experienced was all just a dream. Like Tom Jones “And then I awake and look around me, at four grey walls that surround me, and I realise, yes, I was only dreaming”. On rare occasions though,…