I think Edward James Olmos was goalie on his high school's darts team.
> From: "malmo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "malmo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 14:30:02 -0500
> To: "'Scott Davis'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'Randall Northam'"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "'Martin J. Dixon'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: t-and-f: The Ton Dudes
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> Tracksters (and others) who play competitve darts:
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> Scott Davis
> Tom Jones
> Bill Dellinger
> ????
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>
> malmo
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Scott Davis
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 1:21 PM
> To: Randall Northam
> Cc: Martin J. Dixon; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: t-and-f: The REAL athlete of the year
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>
> Let's not be so critical of Darts. This is truly one of the world's
> great games. In fact, I was a member of a team in the early 1970's in
> Westwood while in grad school at UCLA. I was the only non-Brit on the
> team of 8. We played 301 and cricket exclusively. Not the cricket with
> the bats and balls!! Darts is one hell of a hand-eye coordination game,
> just like pool and golf, but don't get me started with golf. Just
> please remember that golf is a game, like pool and darts, not an
> athletic endeavor. I do remember that the Ye Ole Mucky Duck, one of our
> competitive bars, had Tom Jones on their team. Yes, that Tom Jones!!
> He was a hell of a player and a really fun guy. I played competitively
> for 6 years and won a hell of lot of money in the process. Even today,
> I have a board in my garage and toss the darts every so often while
> thinking about the next track project!! Scott
>
> Randall Northam wrote:
>
>> Aargh! I've put up with many other sports on this list - notably
>> basketball, baseball and American Football, which no other country
>> other than the USA and Canada plays with any distinction - and is
>> therefore very, very parochial - but now we've got DARTS on the list
>> for heaven's sake. To anybody who doesn't know, Darts involves fat men
>
>> with a pint or two of beer throwing pointed objects from a few feet at
>
>> a cork board with strange markings. It is not a sport or even a skill
>> it is a pasttime which should be confined to pubs and bars. Usually
>> the Brits win, which should tell you a lot about our prowess as a
>> "sporting" nation, but now a Canadian is the world champion (how many
>> countries play darts you might ask for it to be a true world
>> championship) and I see the start of a slippery slope for Canada.
>> But there is hope. Part beat Phil "the power" Taylor and those who
> know
>> about these things said the reason Taylor was beaten after eight years
>> was because he'd just lost three stone (42lbs) and some must have gone
>> from his throwing arm. But Taylor reckons he has another three stone
> to
>> go and said: "health is more important than darts."
>> So there is hope.
>> Randall Northam
>> On Tuesday, Jan 7, 2003, at 18:30 Europe/London, Martin J. Dixon
> wrote:
>>
>>> Now here is a guy with a skill and we got him.
>>>
>>> "Two nights ago, Part beat Phil Taylor, who had won the world
>>> championship title for eight years in a row.
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