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People[link]

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• Alfred Moore Waddell (1834-1912), American politician
• Angus Waddell (born 1964), Australian swimmer
• Avery Waddell, American actor
• Cheryl Boyd Waddell (? - 2002), American opera singer
• Cosslett Herbert Waddell (1858 – 1918), Irish clergyman and botanist
• Don Waddell (born 1958), American hockey player & executive
• Ernest Waddell (born 1986), American actor
• Herbert Waddell (1902-1988), Scottish rugby union footballer
• Hugh Waddell, British rugby league footballer
• Ian Waddell (born 1942), Canadian politician
• James Iredell Waddell (1824-1886), American naval officer
• John Waddell (disambiguation)
• Justine Waddell (born 1976), South African actress
• Laurence Waddell (1854-1938), British explorer and author
• Leila Waddell (1880-1932), American writer, magician, and musician
• Martin Waddell Children's author
• Moses Waddel (1770-1840), American educator
• Peter Hately Waddell (1817-1891), Scottish cleric
• Rob Waddell (born 1975), New Zealand rower, yachtsman, and rugby player
• Robert P. "Bobby" Waddell (born 1948), Louisiana politician
• Rube Waddell (1876-1914), American baseball player
• Sid Waddell (born 1940), British commentator and television personality
• Sonia Waddell (born 1973), New Zealand rower
• Terrie Waddell, Australian actress
• Thomas Waddell (1854-1940), Australian politician
• Tom Waddell (baseball) (born 1958), Scottish baseball player
• Wayne Waddell (born 1948), Louisiana state representative
• William Waddell (disambiguation), various people called William (or Willie) Waddell

Places in the United States[link]

• Waddell, Arizona
  • New Waddell Dam, on the Agua Fria River
• Waddell Barnes Botanical Gardens, Macon, Georgia
• Waddell Creek, a stream in California
• E. E. Waddell High School, Charlotte, North Carolina
• Waddells Mill Pond Site, an archeological site in Florida
• Waddell's Station, a historic site in Oklahoma

Other uses[link]

• Russell, Majors and Waddell, a partnership that operated the Pony Express
• USS Waddell (DDG-24), a United States Navy vessel
• Waddell and Reed, a mutual fund company
• Waddell (Limited), owners of Dazed & Confused (magazine)
• Waddell's signs, medical terminology related to back pain

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Sid Waddell (born 10 August 1940) is a British sports commentator and television personality.

Early life[link]

The son of a Northumberland miner, he attended King Edward VI School, Morpeth, and he went on to obtain a scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a 2:1 degree in Modern History.

At Cambridge Waddell played rugby for St Johns, and the Cambridge University LX Club, the rugby second team. Injury brought him to darts and he started the inter-college darts competition. St John's lost in the final of this in 1961 to a team of trainee vicars from Selwyn College. This left Sid deeply scarred.

Career[link]

Granada & Yorkshire[link]

Waddell went into academia for a few years in 1962. He joined the Social Studies Department at Durham University and helped the Professors of Politics and Economics write books. He toyed with the idea of a book on trade unions but settled for folk singing in a duo with Charles E Hall called the Gravyboatmen. They played on BBC 'Tonight' and ITV locally.In 1966 Waddell joined Granada Television working with Michael Parkinson on local news programmes. In 1968 he moved to Yorkshire Television where he created the show Indoor League^[1] which featured various pub games including darts. Between 1968 and 1974, he was a producer for over 600 editions of local news programme, Calendar. He also devised the ITV network children's series The Flaxton Boys a historical derring-do that ran for three years from 1969.

BBC[link]

In 1976, he switched to the BBC and his prior experience with televised darts helped him to become one of the commentators on the first World Professional Darts Championship when it began in 1978. He stayed with the BBC until 1994.

During his time with the BBC, Waddell penned ten episodes of a successful children's television series, Jossy's Giants in 1986. He was also the writer of two series of another children's show Sloggers which ran from 1994 to 1996. His credits also include working with the eccentric scientist Magnus Pyke and was Alan Whicker’s producer on Whicker’s Women in 1972. He worked on The Russell Harty Show, and in 1993 did a series for Tyne Tees Television called Waddell’s World in which he was a butler to a posh Tweeddale family, a caravanner and on the dole.

He made one performance as the "Voice of the Balls" on the National Lottery Red Alert on BBC in 1999. He claims to have been sacked for being "too Geordie".^[2]

Sky Sports[link]

From 1994 he became an independently employed commentator, but it now mainly associated with his work with Sky Sports.

Besides darts, he has commentated on numerous other sporting events produced by Sky Sports and/or Matchroom Sport. Most notable, he regularly commentated on the four annual nine-ball pool events on which the two companies collaborated (World Pool Championship; World Pool Masters; World Pool League; and Mosconi Cup). However, as these events began to be hosted further away from the UK, Waddell gradually withdrew from the sport. His commentaries in these events gained him an international following, particularly in the Philippines.

In 2004, he was the commentator for the British game show House of Games in which two families competed in various household based challenges.^[3]

In 2007, he recorded a series of darts programmes about the World Darts Championship from 1978 until 1990 for ESPN Classic, which were later broadcast on the channel in December 2007.

Awards[link]

Waddell has twice been nominated for TV awards. He was up for BAFTA best director in 1992 for a documentary in the Ipso Facto series, and in 1994 he was nominated for best scriptwriter in the Writers' Guild of Great Britain awards for his children's cricket series Sloggers.

PDC darts[link]

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Contrary to popular belief, Waddell wasn't part of the PDC revolution from its beginning. Dave Lanning and John Gwynne were the commentators on the first PDC World Championship in 1994. Waddell was still with the BBC for the 1994 BDO World Championship (won by John Part) and it wasn't until June 1994 that he joined the Sky Sports commentary team. Waddell now commentates on all major PDC televised darts tournaments. During the bitter dispute between a bunch of 'rebel' players and the British Darts Organisation that started in 1993, Waddell sympathised with the rebels but did not voice his support. However, when the legal action of Eric Bristow, Jocky Wilson, Rod Harrington and others resulted in 1997 in the Tomlin Order - which said the BDO had been operating a ban and should cease - he backed the World Darts Council (later Professional Darts Corporation). Source for this material is Waddell's book Bellies and Bullseyes.

Publications[link]

He has written eleven published books, including biographies of John Lowe, Jocky Wilson and Phil Taylor. His book Bellies and Bullseyes was short listed for the British Sports Book Award for 2008.^[4]

His racy 1973 novel Bedroll Bella about a Geordie groupie, was banned by WH Smiths and John Menzies. In 2009 he published a memoir of his boyhood in a Geordie pit village The Road Back Home.

Personal life[link]

Sid is married to Irene and they have a jointfamily of five kids: Nick, Lucy, Emma, Charlotte and Dan. A fervent Newcastle United supporter, Waddell lives in Leeds.^[5] In September 2011, it was announced that Waddell had been diagnosed with bowel cancer, for which he is currently undergoing treatment.^[6] His name is now mentioned on Cambridge college tour buses in the same breath as poet William Wordsworth, who also attended St John's.

Quotes[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Sid Waddell

*'When Lowe gets back to Clay Cross there'll be a receptiion like Ayatollah Khomeini had hit town'

• 'Jocky Wilson, all the psychology of a claymore.
• As Freud said to Jung in Vienna, you can psych up too much for

a darts match.

• 'Cliff Lazarenko's idea of exercise is a strong pull ona soda siphon.'
• Commentating on Eric Bristow "The congregation is restless and the High Priest is at the oche"
• "When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer... Bristow's only 27."^[7]
• "We couldn't have more excitement if Elvis walked in and asked for a chip sandwich."^[8][9]
• "Bristow reasons . . . Bristow quickens ... Aaah, Bristow."^[8]
• "Bob came on like the Laughing Cavalier..now he looks like Lee Van Cleef on a bad night"
• 'Wade is like a man trying to eat candy floss in a Hadron Collider.'
• "He's not just an underdog, he's an underpuppy." – Assessment of Keith Deller's chances of winning the 1983 Embassy World Darts final against Bristow. Deller won.^[10]
• "That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble."^[7]
• "Look at the man go, it’s like trying to stop a water buffalo with a peashooter."^[7]
• "He's hitting that lipstick like an outsourced Avon lady"
• "As the Liverpool marker said ... You'll never chalk alone" 2012
• 'Yesterday...all my doubles seemed so far away...2012
• 'Taylor could land a Boeing 747 on a kayak.'2012
• 'This Ozzie has more hair than Rapunzel...and is letting it down.'2012
• 'This is Sargeant Taylor's Only Darts Club Band...2012
• 'I've just left Bon Jovi's dressing room and I'm living ona tungsten prayer.' 2012

References[link]

• Waddell, Sid (8 July 2010). The Road Back Home. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-193223-7. 
• Waddell, Sid (7 August 2008). Bellies and Bullseyes. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-191756-2. 

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Classic Waddell Commentary from Waddell's Official web site.

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Medal record
Rob Waddell
Competitor for New Zealand
Men's Rowing
Olympic Games
Gold	2000 Sydney	Single Sculls
World Championships
Gold	1998	Single Sculls
Gold	1999	Single Sculls

Robert "Rob" Norman Waddell, ONZM, (born 7 January 1975 in Te Kuiti) is a New Zealand rower, yachtsman and rugby union player.

Waddell has one of the highest VO₂ max intake levels of any athlete ever tested. He holds the fastest 2000 metre indoor rowing machine time in the world, clocking a time of 5 mins 36.6 secs (5:36.6). He also holds the record for 5000m on the rowing machine with a time of 14:58. This made him the first person to go sub 15min for this distance [1].

2008 Olympics[link]

In 2008 he made a comeback to rowing after leaving the sport after the 2000 Sydney Olympics in pursuit of a sailing career as a grinder. With 8 years out of the sport he broke the 2000m and 5000m on the rowing machine and defeated Mahé Drysdale, the then world champion in the single sculls, who was also a New Zealander. As it was an Olympic year and only one crew can be sent to the olympics in each boat class the stage was set for a battle to see who would fill the olympic single sculls spot. Despite Rob getting the better of Mahé Drysdale in the domestic regattas the selectors created a three-race trial to decide who would go. With the wins for each sculler tied at 1–1 it came down to a final race in which Mahe won. Rob was later selected into the double with the young Nathan Cohen. They finished a disappointing 4th at the olympics. Rob has now retired from rowing to take up sailing again, but looks as if he will make another comeback for the London olympics.[2].

Personal Life[link]

In 1998, he married fellow rower Sonia Scown.

• Olympic Medals: 1 Gold
• World Championship Medals: 2 Gold

Olympic Games – Rowing[link]

• 2000 – Gold, Single Sculls
• 1996 – 7th, Single Sculls
• 2008 – 4th, Double Sculls

World Championships – Rowing[link]

• 1999 – Gold, Single Sculls
• 1998 – Gold, Single Sculls
• 1997 – 8th, Single Sculls
• 1995 – 10th, Coxless Four (4-)
• 1994 – 5th Coxed Pair (2+)
• 1994 – 13th Coxless Pair (2-)

World Cup – Rowing[link]

• 2008 – Gold, Double Sculls (2x)

External links[link]

• FISA profile
• Short biography
• Video of 2000 Olympic race
• Indoor rowing world records

Michael Waddell (born January 9, 1981 in Ellerbe, North Carolina) is an American football cornerback who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the fourth round of the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at North Carolina.

Waddell has also been a member of the Oakland Raiders and Florida Tuskers.

Professional career[link]

Florida Tuskers[link]

Waddell was signed by the Florida Tuskers of the United Football League on August 25, 2009.^[1] He was released before the season began.

References[link]

External links[link]

• North Carolina Tar Heels bio

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John Thomas "Jocky" Wilson (22 March 1950 – 24 March 2012) was a professional darts player from Fife, Scotland. After turning pro in 1979 he quickly rose to the top of the game, winning the World Professional Darts Championship in 1982, then again in 1989.^[2] A contemporary and rival of Eric Bristow, Bob Anderson and John Lowe, Wilson won many titles in his career including the British Professional Championship a record four times between 1981 and 1988, as well as the prestigious British Open and Matchplay titles. He retired from the game in 1995, withdrew from public life, and was rarely seen in public or gave interviews before his death in 2012.

Early life[link]

As a child, Wilson's parents were deemed unfit to raise him and Wilson spent much of his childhood in an orphanage.^[3] Wilson served in the British Army from 1966 to 1968.^[3]

He had been a coal delivery man and also a miner at Kirkcaldy's Seafield Colliery. However, it was a spell of unemployment which was to prove the catalyst to Jocky achieving darting greatness. During this period of unemployment, Jocky entered a darts competition at Butlins, Ayrshire in 1979, which he went on to win, claiming the top prize of £500.^[4] His success at this tournament convinced him that he should turn professional as darts was beginning to become popular on television and the World Championship was in its infancy.

Greatest achievements[link]

His greatest achievements came in the World Championships, first in 1982 where he beat Lowe 5-3 in the final, and then seven years later, when he beat his other great rival Bristow 6-4 in a classic match, where Bristow had recovered from 5-0 down to find himself at 5-4 and 2-2 in the tenth set. This was to be the Scot's last taste of success in a major event although the odd final appearance still came over the next few years.

His record at the World Championship was one of great consistency. From his debut in 1979 until 1991 he managed to reach at least the quarter-finals on every single occasion. He was quarter-finalist eight times (1979, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991) and three-times a losing semi-finalist (1983, 1984, 1987) in addition to his two World titles. In 1992 and 1993 he suffered first round defeats for the only time at the Lakeside Country Club.^[4]

Darts split[link]

Wilson joined the other top professionals who split away from the ruling British Darts Organisation in 1993 to form the WDC (now Professional Darts Corporation). He was not able to recapture the form that took him to two world championships however and only participated in two PDC World Championships, failing to win a single match. He lost both group games in 1994 (to Dennis Priestley and Graeme Stoddart) and again in 1995 (to Priestley and Lowe).

He did reach the final of the WDC Lada Classic in 1993, one of the very early tournaments during the acrimonious split. He lost that final to Mike Gregory. Wilson also reached the quarter-finals of the 1994 World Matchplay, losing to eventual champion Larry Butler.

His final appearance in a televised tournament came in the 1995 World Matchplay. He beat Rod Harrington 8-7 in the first round, but lost to Nigel Justice in the second round. Wilson never appeared in a major televised event again.

Personal life[link]

Wilson was sometimes controversial, occasionally outspoken, but always extremely popular with darts fans who loved his honest approach and natural talent.

In 1982, Wilson was banned from competing in darts tournaments after he allegedly threw a punch at an official during a championship. This was taken as a reaction to Jocky's being under intense pressure at the time of the Falklands War, as he was married to an Argentine woman named Malvina (the Argentine name for the Falkland Islands is "Islas Malvinas"). He was soon allowed back into professional competitions again.

Jocky and Malvina had two sons, John and William, and one daughter, Anne Marie.

Wilson was a constant sweet-eater and generally refused to brush his teeth ("My Gran told me the English poison the water"); he had lost his last tooth by the age of 28. Following his 1982 World title win, he paid £1,200 for dentures, but never took to them. They made him belch when drinking, he complained.^[4]

After retirement[link]

Wilson never formally announced his retirement from darts; he just departed from darts suddenly on 23 December 1995. It is believed that he left after being diagnosed as having diabetes, which stopped him drinking during games.^[5]

For ten years during his darts career he had a house in Wallsend to cut down on travel expenses, but he left that to return to his home town of Kirkcaldy. Within two years, he was declared bankrupt, and then survived on disability allowance, living as a recluse in a one-bedroom flat back on the council estate where he grew up.^[4] In 1996 he said, "I don't want anyone feeling sorry for me. There's only one person to blame for the situation I'm in, and that's me."

He ceased giving interviews to the press and television. An Observer reporter tried to interview Jocky in January 2007 on the 25th anniversary of his first title win to be told by his wife, "He never has (given an interview) since stopping and never will. He thinks it's all in the past, it's over with."^[4] Despite Jocky's withdrawal from the game, in August 2009 the PDC announced a new tournament called 'The Jocky Wilson Cup' in which Scotland's best played England's best. England beat Scotland 6-0 in the inaugural Jocky Wilson Cup in December 2009.

A heavy smoker for forty years, in November 2009 it was announced that he had been diagnosed as having chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.^[6] Reports stated that Wilson had smoked up to 50 cigarettes a day for most of his life. He died just after 9 p.m. on 24 March 2012 at his home in Kirkcaldy.^[7] His funeral was held on Monday 2 April at the crematorium in his home town:^[8] his great rival Eric Bristow and sports presenter Helen Chamberlain were amongst the estimated 400 mourners.

World Championship results[link]

BDO[link]

• 1979: Quarter Final (lost to John Lowe 1-3)
• 1980: Quarter Final (lost to Eric Bristow 0-3)
• 1981: Quarter Final (lost to Tony Brown 2-4)
• 1982: Winner (beat John Lowe 5-3)
• 1983: 3rd place (beat Tony Brown 2-0; lost in Semi Final to Keith Deller 3-5)
• 1984: Semi Final (lost to Dave Whitcombe 5-6)
• 1985: Quarter Final (lost to Dave Whitcombe 3-4)
• 1986: Quarter Final (lost to Dave Whitcombe 2-4)
• 1987: Semi Final (lost to John Lowe 0-5)
• 1988: Quarter Final (lost to Eric Bristow 2-4)
• 1989: Winner (beat Eric Bristow 6-4)
• 1990: Quarter Final (lost to Mike Gregory 3-4)
• 1991: Quarter Final (lost to Kevin Kenny 3-4)
• 1992: First round (lost to Kevin Kenny 1-3)
• 1993: First round (lost to Dennis Priestley 0-3)

PDC[link]

• 1994: Group Stage (lost both group games to Dennis Priestley and Graeme Stoddart)
• 1995: Group Stage (lost both group games to Dennis Priestley and John Lowe)

In popular culture[link]

• In 1982 his picture was displayed on Top of the Pops during a performance of "Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)" by Dexys Midnight Runners, apparently an in-joke on the part of the production staff.^[4][9]
• He was amongst the first sports people to have a computer game created after him. Published by Zeppelin Games, Jocky Wilson's Darts Challenge (1988) and later Jocky Wilson's Darts Compendium (1991) were created for several different home computer systems.
• One of the suites in the fictional Phoenix Club (as seen in Phoenix Nights) was named after Wilson.

References[link]

External links[link]

• "A Sporting Nation" - article from bbc.co.uk
• Jocky's dart out of the shadows The Scotsman, 17 March 2001
• DartsDatabase profile and stats