Scottish darts star enters match dressed like the Grinch, complete with green hair and beard

Peter Wright is amazing.

I am today years old when I learned that Scottish darts star Peter Wright loves to make a fun scene for his entrances to matches.

He usually sports a spiky hairstyle with all kinds of colors dyed into it — green, purple, rainbow whatever! — and has walked out to Pitbull while doing a delightful dance, sometimes with cheerleaders. He has snakes stenciled into his head because his nickname is “Snakebite.”

In other words, he just became my favorite darts star. How can you not want to root for that?

This week, he walked on to the 2021 World Darts Championship as the Grinch, with his hair dyed and an all-green getup with what can only be described as furry Grinch hands. Seriously. This is AWESOME.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh_V6Y0F1jg

Here are some other Wright entrances and hairstyles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TVoWUDpUSQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DM0ZK6aueM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHj7DbEECX0

I love it. Where can I buy a Peter Wright jersey??? And darts provides some of the best highlights, doesn’t it?

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Darts crowd, announcers explode over first Premier League 9-darter since 2017

This darts highlight is one of the best things you’ll watch all day.

There’s nothing quite like a professional darts telecast, and we here at For The Win love a good darts highlight. It’s already been a tremendous season for the sport, with the rise of Fallon Sherrock, who made history by becoming the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship.  On Thursday in Dublin, Michael Smith joined an exclusive club, becoming the first Premier League player to throw a nine-dart leg since 2017.

If you’re not familiar with darts, a nine-darter is the peak of perfection. In each “leg” of the match, players try to reduce their total from 501 to zero in as few turns as possible. A perfect leg requires nine darts in total – but it’s incredibly rare to see a nine-darter occur in a televised major tournament.

Smith made it look easy. After ripping off a pair of 180s, Smith hit his triple-20, triple-19, double-12 combination so quickly that it took the crowd a moment to realize what had just happened.

If you’ve got six minutes to spare, there are few better ways to pass the time than by watching all of the nine-darters ever thrown in the Premier League.

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Darts hero Fallon Sherrock continues to make history, wins again

Fallon Sherrock won again and knocked out the No. 11 player in the world.

Fallon Sherrock’s magical run at the PDC World Championship at Alexandria Palace continued Saturday night with an upset win over Mensur Suljovic, the No. 11 player in the world.

Sherrock made history in London earlier this week in London, becoming the first woman in the history of the PDC World Championship to beat a man at the event. Sherrock returned to the stage against an even tougher opponent, but she played another magnificent match, winning the first set to go up 1-0, and taking the final two sets after Suljovic leveled the match.

With the crowd jeering Suljovic, Sherrock checked out with a bullseye to win the match and advance to the third round. The scenes inside Alexandra Palace were incredible.

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This video of a darts crowd going nuts after a historic win in London is too good

What an awesome reaction from this crowd in London.

Did I wake up today and think I’d end up writing about darts? No, no I didn’t.

To be completely honest, my background with darts consists mostly of attempting to play while having some drinks with friends at various dive bars over the years.

I do know the sport is big overseas, as every now and then viral moments pop up online.

Well, on Tuesday at the PDC World Championship in London history was made as Fallon Sherrock (what a tremendous name) became the first woman to beat a man at the big event and the huge crowd absolutely loved it.

I didn’t know I had to put “going to a dart championship even in London” on my bucket list until I saw how awesome this crowd was right when Sherrock locked up her win:

I’ve watched that a number of times already. I mean, how much fun does that look like?

Sherrock was overjoyed with her historic victory, telling The Guardian:

“I’m speechless, I don’t know what to say,” an emotional Sherrock said on stage afterwards. “I feel really happy because I have proven something for women’s darts, that women can play the men and beat them, so fingers crossed this is a move in the right direction. I’m over the moon, I can’t believe it!”

Heck yeah, Fallon Sherrock. Well done.