Darts is supposed to be loud. That is half the point. People in fancy dress, pints in the air, walk-on songs belted back at the stage. What happened in Amsterdam this weekend was something else. A shrill, timed whistle aimed at a player in mid-throw is not atmosphere. It is sabotage, and Luke Littler has … Read more
Phil Taylor grew up in a house his parents bought for £100. The upstairs was condemned. His dad knocked a brick out of the wall so they could run an extension lead to the neighbour’s electricity. At 17 he was a sheet metal worker. Luke Littler, at the same age, was already a millionaire and … Read more
Luke Littler is 19, world number one, and already a two-time world champion. After a weekend in Amsterdam that turned sour, he is now sitting out the next run of events in the Netherlands. That is not a small decision. It is the world number one telling a packed darts nation that the atmosphere has … Read more
Jalen Brunson just won a title and Finals MVP, and a lot of people still have him sitting outside the top five. That should tell you how strange this conversation has become. The New York Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs in five games in June. Brunson dropped 45 points in the clincher. The rest … Read more
Phil Taylor is 66 years old and back on the practice board. That sentence alone is enough to make any darts fan sit up. The 16-time world champion has not played a proper competitive match since walking away from the World Seniors scene in 2025. Now he is throwing for an hour a day, doing … Read more
Ross Smith just reminded everyone why darts still loves a late bloomer. In Amsterdam on Sunday night, the 37-year-old from Dover tore through Gerwyn Price 11-5 in the World Series of Darts Finals and walked off with his second major title. That scoreline does not tell the full story. The match was locked at 5-5. … Read more
RJ Barrett watched the New York Knicks hoist the Larry O’Brien Trophy from Toronto and did not pretend it felt simple. The kid they drafted third overall in 2019 helped drag the franchise out of the wilderness. Then they shipped him to the Raptors for OG Anunoby. Two and a half years later the Knicks … Read more
Amsterdam Stops the Run: Clayton Ends Littler’s World Series Challenge Luke Littler’s bid for an unprecedented clean sweep of the 2026 majors came to a halt in Amsterdam. In the quarter-finals of the World Series of Darts Finals, Jonny Clayton beat the world number one 10-4 and sent the teenager out of the tournament. It … Read more
Some players hide how they feel until the cameras are off. Nathan Aspinall does the opposite. On Friday night in Amsterdam he was 4-1 down to Raymond Smith, feeling physically off, and thinking about leaving the World Series of Darts Finals before the first round was even finished. Then he won 6-4 and talked about … Read more
Luke Littler walked into AFAS Live this weekend as the best darts player on the planet. He walked off it talking about never coming back. That is the strange, messy reality of the World Series of Darts Finals in Amsterdam. The 19-year-old world number one and back-to-back world champion beat home favourite Danny Noppert, then … Read more