The final of the Las Vegas Desert Classic will embrace the whole spectrum of professional darts. We will have the flash and panache of Wayne Mardle against the machine of professionalism - Phil Taylor. Читать далее...
John Gwynne and I have commentated on some belters for Sky Sports over the years, but we both agreed that in the top six ever must go the Wayne Mardle versus Colin Lloyd quarter-final.
Lloyd started like a train to show certain loud-mouthed Geordie commentators that he can come out of the traps like a whippet. Читать далее...
It will go down as the day that the Yanks got the message about supporting darts. Up to now, the fine balance between massive hush and then mighty appreciation seems to have eluded big audiences, but today’s action got them rocking and rolling like any top English crowd. Читать далее...
There were some big shocks in the Desert Classic first round, with Mark Dudbridge, former winner Peter Manley and Ronnie Baxter all being hustled out of the competition.
On the same stage where I sat and watched Simon and Garfunkel and the Everly Brothers a year ago, there was music to the ears of some new stars rapidly emerging in our sport. Читать далее...
Heading for Las Vegas to commentate on top darts just does my head in. Who’d have thought back in the first days of televised darts at the Indoor League at the Leeds Irish Centre in 1973 that we’d take the game this far? For Tetley’s bitter and jumbo sausage rolls read Pina Coladas and Po’Boy sarnies. We’ve gone from the world of bingo and Bernard Manning to the stomping ground of Elvis, Sinatra and Cher. Читать далее...