Previews and rosters for Fridays opening round bouts at the 2008 Eastern Regionals: Madison vs. Minnesota, Boston vs. Grand Raggidy, Detroit vs. Providence, and Charm City vs. Cincinnati. Coverage starts live on DNN at 8am on Friday.read more

DNN Cub Reporter Moose Ondaluce enlists the help of league annoucers to capture interviews with skaters from the Dallas Derby Devils, Tucson Roller Derby, Rose City Rollers, and the Denver Roller Dollsread more

Rosters and recent histories of the four bye seeds from this upcoming weekends action in Madison, Wisconsin: Gotham, Carolina, Windy City and Philly.read more

Battle Royale mothership: Quick takes and scores from all the single-elimination bouts at last weekends Western Regionals, links to DNNs archived boutcasts, plus a team-by-team breakdown of win-loss records for all 20 bouts.read more

In the third chapter of the ongoing tournament saga between Texas and Rat City, Texas finally got revenge for their narrow losses in the 2007 regional and national quarterfinals, defeating the Seattle crew in an intense, back-and-forth crowd-pleaser that came down to the last jam.read more

The Gotham juggernaut steamrolls the Saddletramps from Tucson, serving notice to their rivals at Eastern Regionals with a nearly 100 point win.

Two rising teams with their eyes on solidifying their reputations will clash in Madison on Saturday night, as the resurgent, #17th-ranked Mad Rollin Dolls of Madison host the red-hot, #13th-ranked Charm City Roller Girls of Baltimore. It is the first meeting between the two teams.

2007 WFTDA National Champion Kansas City Roller Warriors host the 2006 Champions and inventors of the modern sport, the Texas Rollergirls. This is their first meeting since Texas defeated KC 111 - 62 in the 3rd place bout at the 2007 Western Regional Tournament. Follow the action in this DNN livebl

In a chaotic, multiple-overtime conclusion to the Battle on the Bank, the L.A. Ri-ettes defeat the flat-track all-stars Team Awesome by a single point, 63-62.

* L.A. Derby Dolls Ri-ettes * TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls All Scar Army * Team Awesome * L.A. Derby Dolls Golden Girls * San Diego Derby Dolls Border Patrol * OC RollerGirls Orange Crushers

It?s the one they?ve all been waiting for . . . . . . For the first time, the two oldest leagues in the UK will finally meet on the track for a slamtastic showdown where the Birmingham Blitz Derby Dames “Brummie Bombshells” will roll the Captial Punishment all over theLondon Rollergirls

American skating legends and owners of Sin City Skates are flying their way into the city of Glasgvegas…I mean, Glasgow, Scotland for a special weekend bootcamp! Be sure to catch all your favourite UK rollergirls at this one, with training sessions and mixed scrimamges, and of course a wee bit

“Pulp Friction” saw the Dolls take on the Molls in Glasgow Rollergirls’ first ever Intra-league bout. The line-ups included guest-stars from our friends the London Rollergirls and with both teams evenly matched, it promised to be an electrifying game. There was bad luck in store fo

Several of us Regina Rollergirls are heading up to Saskatoon for the SRDL’s open house and Black and White Scrimmages. There will also be a boot Camp with Coach Lime afterwards. I am so pumped to hear from Coach Lime again, the guy is a deadly wealth of knowledge and just an all around cool [.

I had the immense pleasure of asking a few questions of my favourite roller derby related artist Uncle Leon from Uncle Leon and the Alibis. You would know them best from the rockin rollin, hard hitting, internationally famed derby song Roller Derby Saved My Soul. Now you have been in a lot of intern

photo by Ziv KrugerThere are 328 photos in this flickr set from Ziv taken at the March 2, 2008 Texas Rollergirls season opener. This mega set covers both bouts (Honky Tonk Heartbreakers vs Hustlers and Hot Rod Honeys vs Hell Marys), as well as the halftime band and the after party. Pictured left, Ho

By TRACY STATON * Photographs by BRENT HUMPHREYS for American Airlines MagazineWHAT HAPPENS WHEN A BUNCH OF GIRLS ON SKATES GET TOGETHER FOR A LITTLE FUN? PURE MAYHEM. A LINE SNAKES FROM DEEP in the parking lot at Playland Skate Center in Austin, Texas, to a tent near the entrance, where a woman

Rollergirl jammer star helmet cover on an angel winged skull and crossbones with roller derby skates holding the laces by the teeth.Shown on an Alternative Apparel camouflage fashion t-shirt made of 100% cotton combed ringspun jersey. Blind stitched hem at sleeve and bottom and side seamed with a t

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2/19/08Contact: Mercy LessMarketing/PR Chair, WFTDAmarketing@wftda.comThe Womens Flat Track Derby Association is proud to announce that membership is now open to Canadian Leagues! The WFTDA has overcome administrative and legal hurdles to take this exciting first step towards

Skate or die purple lightning textured skull and crossbone design. Dont forget you can change the text and/or add your derby name and number. The back of each apparel item is always left blank so you have the opportunity to customize and make it yours. Shown on a stylish take on the hooded classic.

RULES OF WOMEN’S ROLLERDERBY As narrated by Lady Vengeance of The Garden State Rollergirls

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Blockers line up at the start. Great Bout–great fun–a little bit for everyone More about the Hudson Valley Horrors: http://www.myspace.com/hvrollerderby More about the Montreal New Kids: http://www.mtlrollerderby.com/

Yesterday, I posted a couple of bulletins on here asking people to write a little bit about their favorite rollergirl. I expected to get about 10-15 responses. But instead, I got about 30 of them! No...

Impertinent thoughts on pertinent subjects: ----------------------------- With Rose City being bounced out of the Northwest Knockdown national tournament next month, one of the very first thoughts I h...

Theres that old saying "when life deals you lemons, make lemonade". Two weeks ago in Portland, I had a rock thrown off an overpass and land on my windshield, thus shattering the thing. And over the ...

Of course...sadly...I couldnt make it to Houston due to all the time I missed at work last week due to that rock being thrown through my windshield in Portland. But that doesnt mean I didnt follow ...

Well, since last weeks adventure pretty much eliminated any shot of me going to Houston for Western Regionals this weekend, I have decided to get my derby fix in good ol Boise again this weekend. The...

Via Roller Skates’ Grand Opening Party with Fashion Shows.Here are some highlights, click HERE for more! Thanks to all our friends and neighbors that came out to support us! Thanks to all the models, volunteers, our roller derby league the Angel City Derby Girls, our party sponsors Riedell Ska

The roller derby girls of viaderby.com have opened a roller skate/vintage clothing boutique in Long Beach, CA. Our Grand Opening Party is this Saturday night, 7 to 11pm and comes with three roller skating fashion shows to the sounds of DJ Leo and art wall of Featured Local Artist “Know Love

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Estro Jen Tel. 267.374.9674 Email: estrojen@viaderby.com VIA ROLLER SKATES AND REPLAY VINTAGE GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION TO BE HELD SATURDAY, SEPT. 27th Official Grand Opening Celebration of New Shop on Retro Row brings Roller Skating Fashion Shows Long Beach, CA (Septe

Tonight, DONT MISS SUGAR on “Don’t Forget the Lyrics!!! Kick ass skater on the Angel City Derby Girl’s “Hollywood Scarlets” and “The Shore Shots” Owner of Viaderby.com and excellent singer Sugar N Spikes appears on Don’t Forget the Lyrics! Watch at 9

Viaderby.com- online skate shop owned and operated by Sugar N Spikes and Estro Jen of ACDG, has opened a lifestyle roller skating boutique in Long Beach, CA called Via Roller Skates The address- 2220 4th Street (on retro row) Long Beach CA 90802 *space shared with “Replay” -vintage styl

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OC Roller Girls Roller Derby Present Battle on the Base! Enjoy two lively roller derby matches while helping to raise funds for the Wounded Warrior Project and local on base nonprofit. Were making i...

Come show the OC Roller Girls some love and appreciation on Saturday, August 30th.Tickets are only $5 when you buy them at www.doyouderby.com or $7 at the door. Children under 10 get in free! Bring a ...

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_KJM5935.jpg Originally uploaded by Insanity Labs The Western Regionals was a fabulous time. Twenty games of amazing derby. Lots of teams I hadn’t yet had the opportunity to see. Every minute of it, some job to do. Here’s a fabulous picture that Kerry McClain took of me hard at

Here’s some metrics provided by ustream of our live feed during Western Regionals. Unfortunately some of the Sunday numbers appear lost. Of note: 21,000 unique viewers on Saturday 270 average throughout the 8-bout day.

As technology cooperates with us, we’ll be streaming a live web cam from Western Regionals in Houston. For updates check http://www.ustream.tv/channel/houston-roller-derby-live http://www.colonelpod.com/ and http://twitter.com/bshirley/ What have you got to do all day, work? If you’re in

The undefeated Bayou City Bosses took on the 2-time league champion Psych Ward Sirens. The outcome was 67 Bosses 76 Sirens assuring a rematch between the two teams in the finals next month. Thanks, as always to cjacks for the bumper music.

The undefeated Bayou City Bosses took on the 2-time league champion Psych Ward Sirens. The outcome was 67 Bosses 76 Sirens assuring a rematch between the two teams in the finals next month. Thanks, as always to cjacks for the bumper music.

Tequila Mockingbird, paralyzed from the neck down eleven months ago in a Windy City Rollers bout, has taken her first steps!!! She declared that she would walk within a year, and due to sheer determination and strength of spirit, she has worked every waking moment to accomplish this feat! Although s

All right, for those of you that liked my Etsy post from a while back, I’ve found some more to tickle your derby bone. I was recently looking for some birthday gifts, and I decided to peruse Etsy and see what was new. Holy Crap, did I find some Fantastic Things!!! Here’s a look at a [...

Wanna see a whole lotta derby for just a little scrilla? Then get to the East Coast Extravaganza in Philly this year. For serious. There will be teams from all over the East Coast and Mid West - some of which are some of the best in the country (Detroit Derby Girls, Gotham Girls Derby, Windy [...]

From WFTDA’s Website: WFTDA partners with Frozen Codebase to produce roller derby video game The Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA), announced that it has partnered exclusively with Frozen Codebase LLC, to bring its Real. Strong. Athletic. Revolutionary. brand of modern roller

Rich-Joseph Facun Check out the portfolio titled “Rollin’ Revival” on this site. There are some amazing shots on this site. Rich-Joseph Facun is the husband of Sweet N’ Lowdown of the Dominion Derby Girls and he’s a professional photographer as well. Here’s part o

Come on down to the Austin Convention Center to bear witness when the undefeated Holy Rollers take on the Rhinestone Cowgirls. The Rhineys are all saddled up for victory, but the Rollers won’t give it up without a fight. Will the baddest bullies in the Sacred Heart Schoolyard roll their way in

What do you get when you combine Juno with Charlie’s Angels? The roller-derby film Whip It! which will star Ellen Page and will be directed by Drew Barrymore. Whip It! marks Barrymore’s directorial debut and has begun filming in Michigan. “I’ve been working toward the goal of

You’d better strap yourselves in tight, folks, ’cause the clash of the green and pink is going down…downtown! The Hellcats and the Cherry Bombs are still stingin’ from their defeats at the hands of the Holy Rollers, and both teams have a powerful thirst: a thirst for victory.

On paper, this bout seemed straightforward: the undefeated Holy Rollers were taking on the winless Putas del Fuego. But the departure of longtime crowd favorite Chola of the PDF made this bout very special. Many people in the crowd sported their own version of Chola’s trademark tear in her hon

The finals will be Rat City and Rose City. Rat City won its quarterfinals 124-27 and Olympia won 173-45. After Rose City handled Lava City 81-34, Rat City and Olympia had a nailbiter of a match. Oly actually led after the first couple of jams, but they got in foul trouble and Rat City held on for an

We are most of the way through Round One. Rose City defended its #1 seed by defeating Slaughter County 90-50, and then Lava City (Bend, OR) took out Lilac City (Spokane, WA) 86-25).Right now, the second period of Rat City-Treasure Valley (Boise, ID) is about to start, and Rat City leads, 64-14. Then

Today I did something that would royally embarrass any normal person. I sent out an email to ALL employees that didn’t work the way it was supposed to. Oops. I just laughed. Thank God my boss laughed with me. I swear I tested it, but with me testing, good luck! [...]

It’s been a week since I stated that I was eager to make more hurricane memories, and I can truly say I have been blessed. Good things that came from Ike include: My husband now realizes we need to fix the skylights that leaked all over the atrium and that I’ve been telling him to [...

Today, my family is one of the many in Houston who are hunkering down for Hurricane Ike, ready to make more hurricane memories. I can’t help thinking about how mad I was when Alicia hit and I couldn’t go see my boyfriend at the skating rink. And how we had a baby possum [...]

So I surf over to the new Houston House of Blues because I hear Ghostland Observatory is playing in October. I’ve only seen them once and that was quite a while ago, so I would love to check them out again soon. Then…what tha…?!?!?! Rick Springfield is going to be at the [...]

When I think of all the sacrifices I have made for derby in the past three years, my stomach tends to trouble me. Currently, I’m making myself sick by conducting the league’s third annual Fan Favorites survey. This year’s survey is churning up the bile because I am paying for it

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Join the Big Easy Rollergirls for their third season opening bout on Saturday, October 11, 2008 at the Human Performance Center at UNO (on the corner of Elysian Fields and Leon C. Simon - map below)! Doors open at 6p, the action starts rolling at 7p.Buysingle ticketsin advance for$10or get aseason p

Scott Stuntz of Muttshotz Photography and one of the photographers for the Big Easy Rollergirls is displaying his work at the Art for Arts Sake event on Magazine Street this Saturday, October 4, 2008 from 6p - 10p. Come out and see his work at Petcetera on the 3200 block of Magazine.Also at the fes

Start the season out right by hanging out with your favorite flat track ladies at the 2008-2009 BERG Calendar release party on Saturday, September 27, 2008! Festivities start at 9p with doors opening at 8p at Old New Orleans Rum at 2815 Frenchmen Street.View Larger MapEntertainment will include danc

Heres a complete list of prizes to be won at the Big Easy Rollergirls 2008-2009 Calendar release party at Old New Orleans Rum (2815 Frenchment Street) this Saturday, September 27, 2008! Tickets are2for$5,3for$7,5for$10 or 15 for $20.Buy multiple tickets to increase your chances of winning.Items to

Mahony?s Po-Boys on Magazine Street is sponsoring MS150 cycling Team Broken Racket and is having a party to support them! Team Broken Racket is riding for the Multiple Sclerosis Society in their annual 150-mile bike event on October 4-5, 2008!To help raise money, Mahony?s is donating 10% of sales du

Lots of action going on around here at the CrashCam Films global headquarters. So much so, that I didn’t even have time to harass y’all (again) in advance of the Hell on Wheels DVD release date (Sept 30!). Well, guess what. The DVD is out and available NOW!!! DVDs available from IndiePix

Hell on Wheels DVD release party & screening: Alamo Drafthouse, Austin Thursday, October 2 at 7:00 Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar *director Bob Ray and producer Werner Campbell in attendance for [...]

DVD release party & screening: Alamo Drafthouse, Austin Thursday, October 3 at 7:00 Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar *director Bob Ray and producer Werner Campbell in attendance for post screening Q&A *DVDs for sale!!! http://www.originalalamo.com/Show.aspx?id=5213 www.indiepixfilms.com/film

Hello all my derby pals (and future derby pals)! Bob Ray from ?Hell on Wheels? here. We?re really excited to finally have a DVD available soon. We?ve been working on this film since 2001 and recently signed a distribution deal with IndiePix. First of all, I?d like to thank the derby community for we

HELL ON WHEELS, the ultimate roller-derby documentary comes to IndiePixFilms.com ?Available September 30th on the net for download or shipping ?Feature-length documentary hailed by critics and roller-derby ?Directed by Bob Ray, with original music by ?And They Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead

Dear AT&T:I?ve been an AT&T customer for over 8 years ? I was with you when you were AT&T, I stayed with you when you were Cingular, and I made it through the third transition back to AT&T. Last month I was happy to find out that my boyfriend wanted to buy me an iPhone for my birthday ? the perfect

This past Saturday we FINALLY made it to the Renaissance Festival, one of the happiest places on earth, according to yours truly. I love the Ren Fest for many reasons. First, it was one of the first outings J and I ever went on together, and somehow being there brings us back to the days of puppy lo

Not too long ago the vice president of my company told me that unlike some people, I was the type of person who forged ahead when working on projects (instead of holding meetings and talking about how to forge ahead), which is a fairly accurate description of how I work, but what he said next confus

I was reading a commentary earlier today by someone whose opinion I don?t usually trust, let alone give the time of day, but he said something that struck a chord with me and my recent thoughts on the current financial crisis in America:?Political parties that put their own success over that of the

I find myself really inconvenienced by shaving. Just this morning when I was in the shower looking at my stubbly legs, I made the conscious decision to put it off one more day, banking on the fact that I had a pair of black tights that were opaque enough ? and clean ? justifying my decision to be la

For a year, the London Rollergirls have been bouting and the teams have been known as ‘Pink’ and ‘Black’. In that time, Black picked up one victory, but Pink pipped them to the post with two, culminating at the ‘Summer Shovin’ event back in July. However, that was

The London Rollergirls are happy to announce the birth of three new permanent teams! Presenting: Steam Rollers Suffra Jets Ultraviolent Femmes We’re also proud to announce the first bout of our first season proper! At 5pm on Saturday 27th September at Tottenham Green Leisure Centre, it’

We want you to be one too! Here’s how: We are now running special ‘basic skills’ sessions on the first Saturday of each month. If you’ve never skated with us before, we ask that you please come to one of these sessions as your first on-skates practice with us. Even if youR

For those of you who have not been fans of the London Rollergirls from the very beginning, here?s a brief history lesson? September 2007… Our first ever public bout, and Team Pink and Team Black line up. Nobody quite knows what to expect… But at the end of the day, Team Black comes out

Some excellent photos on our forum here courtesy of Mr. Al Overdrive. Full writeup to follow…

The Black-n-Bluegrass Rollergirls finished up their first season with a win against Derby City Rollergirls last night! The final score was 106-41. Derby City were super gracious hosts, and played a great game! We are officially in our off-season now. These next few months will find us training hard

Your Black-n-Bluegrass Moonshiners completed their first Season with a win over Bloomington’s Flatliners Saturday night! Final Score 115-67. Visit our Schedule page for a complete list of our 2008 standings. Photos from the bout will be up on our Photo page soon. Thanks to all the volunteers

And what a fantastic first season it has been! At a current standing of 3-3, The Black-n-Bluegrass Rollergirls have fought long and hard to bring Flat Track Roller Derby excitement to Northern Kentucky! Join us on Saturday, September 20th for our final home bout of the season. BBRG host The Bleeding

Firstly, a big WELCOME to all our new skaters who attended tryouts today! We are excited to have you and look forward to growing as a team in the next couple of months! We are still actively recruiting REFEREES! If you are interested, please drop us a message! Friday, August 29th Car Wash at Wendy&#

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Roller Derby Teams contact Hard Licker to get free tickets to Saturday?s She Devils game in Mt Laurel, New Jersey. Join the Ride for Dime Philly Chapter & The 94 WYSP Street Team.

Is looking for a few good men to sk8. Does anyone know of anybody who would be interested in forming a mens derby team and/ or league here in the Houston area? We already have an outstanding womens league (HRD) here in Houston and of course (the TXRG) in Austin, so the sport already has a [...]

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For the guys who missed it, check out the discussion board. Lots of things are going on in men’s roller derby.

(artwork by Bill Charbonneau of Smallmarketsports.com) Im starting a new tradition. the first annual Derby Luv OctoberSkate 20o8! It may be the only OctoberSkate held in Montreal, so if youre anywhere near it or can get there for Sunday morning, pre-Thanksgiving celebrations, post Saturday drun

So from a fan perspective, this weekend is HUGE! First off, theres Derby in Dairyland, which is the place to be for WFTDA Eastern Regionals action. DNN is still preparing for the weekend event, but you can sign up to follow the scores if you arent available to watch all the boutcasts, and can rec

I just read an amazing article by a writer that tried out for the Minnesota Roller Girls. Wow. Not only a good read, but an amazing tale of heartbreak and pain, work and sweat for fresh meat girls with the dream of playing roller derby. As a player that started out as one of the "Come one, Come All

Hey, thanks to Slapollonia of the GTA Rollergirls in Toronto, Ive sent my postcard. I cant actually vote, being a US Citizen and a Canadian Permanent Resident, but Im Canadian enough that I pay taxes in Canada, so Id love a tax credit. How about you? If youre not already aware there is a Chil

Derby in Dairyland, the WFTDA Easter Regionals Tournament is on this weekend, Oct 10-12. There are several things to take note of for this event. 1) The Charitable events by the Mad Rollin Dolls and the party schedule 2) The Bout schedule, of course, and the top seeds - DNN is travelling but watch

Checklist for Captains and bench coaches. Captaining and Co-captaining We all have certain ideals of how we want things to unfold in order to work most effectively. However, when working with a partner (and with bench coaches) you will come to realize everyone has their own agenda for progress for t

Derby News Network (http://www.derbynewsnetwork.com). New look, new backend tools, new scores database goodness, new columns, new contributors, and now including...

I know many of you have come to rely upon this site for a comprehensive listing of upcoming interleague bouts...

I'd like to take a minute this Thanksgiving holiday to recognize the over 100 people who made my adventures possible...

A few days after it aired, MavTV (http://www.mavtv.com) has now posted the webcast of the Providence Roller Derby (http://www.providencerollerderby.com)...

Keeping up on interleague scores just keeps getting more challenging, so I'm asking for your help. If you've got...

since my last blog entry. I have been beyond busy. My life has been crazy hectic - but in a good way! I started teaching at my new school. So far, so good! I will post pictures of the updated classroom later. I don’t have them on this computer. I have a sweet little class. [...]

That is one of my favorite words and the best way to describe my day. First off, I need to send out a thank you to my hubby for helping me out in my classroom this morning. We got a lot done! Now for the exciting stuff! Jason and I went with my realtor, Stephanie Yost to look [...]

my classroom, that is! Click HERE if you need a reminder of what it looked like when I moved in. It is still needs a bit of work, but it has come along way. I will take more pictures when it is completed the week of the 25th. (I have new teacher orientation next week - I [...]

My classroom website reached over 10,000 hits today! Yay! Also…my classroom is really coming together! Hopefully I can post photos tomorrow! =) I went to my old school’s open house tonight and saw all of the families that I am going to miss! Apparently they have all been telling my repla

So, I finally got the pics from Heather. We were trying to take cute pictures with our new haircuts. Let me just say…they are pretty silly. Words don’t really do them justice. See for yourself. This is one of the first ones, but we thought we would try for more. I am mainly inserting pic

Today we launched a redesigned admin bar, the handy toolbar you see at the top of every WordPress.com blog when you’re logged in. We’ve retired the old flat blue look in favor of something that better matches the swanky new WordPress.com dashboard. Here’s a before and after vi

Now you can customize how avatars show up on your blog, including some cool never-before available options: You can find these options under Settings > Discussion. Here’s what you can do: Turn avatars on and off, which applies to their display on your blog. Choose a rating, which right n

April absolutely flew, I have no idea where it went. Here’s what you rascals did last month, with a few new and improved stats: 240,494 blogs were created. 281,729 new users joined. 2,533,704 file uploads. (Y’all use the new uploader a lot more.) About 740 gigabytes of new files. (Estim

Given the recent news that WordPress.com might be blocked in Brazil, we would like to share some information about the case and our response. A Brazilian judge ordered that one blog hosted at WordPress.com should be blocked in Brazil. A local ISP association mentioned it would do so via IP address b

Blog posts can be a total tease. You get to the end and you’re ready for more, but all that’s there is maybe some post navigation, and if you’re lucky a few comments. If your appetite was whetted by the awesome post you just read there’s no place for you to go, except maybe t

The Oil City Derby Girls are going to pound away at eachother this weekend at the Infest Tattoo show here in Edmonton. Check it out. We’re going to have some fun! Derby girls and tattoos goes together like peanut butter and jam. See you there!

A battle to the end. Tempers flared and emotions feuled. The RCpms fought a good battle but unfortunately lost in the end. The Hellion Rebellion put out the best of theirs against the RCpms veteran and rookie mixed team. The score in the end was 117-29. Battle in the Big Four was a fun and exciting

The Wildrose cup was a challenge to Calgary’s team form the E-ville Roller Derby girls last season. Unfortunately E-ville lost the cup (103-105) in a wild and heartfelt battle. Seeing asthis was seemingly an Alberta Cup, this gave the Oil City girls to challenge for the cup. On April 5 the Oi

but I’m obviously not writing for this blog anymore - like I said in my last post a few months back, I am now doing recaps for Derby News Network (which, by the way, looks amazing due to a recent makeover). I will continue to cover as much Colorado derby there as I can, but [...]

I have started writing bout previews and recaps over at Derby News Network, so go there to check them out. This site is great because it is a very central location for info on bouts all over the place as well as other general roller derby news. I’m trying to write about all the [...]

Queen Kamayhemayhem is now officially a member of the Cosmonaughties!

Next year WFTDA will go from being a 2 region system to a 4 region one. There are a lot of good reasons for this to happen but one downside is that the 12 top teams will advance to regionals, which means (in our region) every single league but one. Sucks to be that league! Although I suspect no l

This was spotted by one of my league-mates on PostSecret. I find it rather heart-wrenching and poignant.

What do all roller girls have in common? Well, lots of things. But today were talking about foot pain. Here is a nice blog about how to tie your laces to alleviate foot soreness. Be sure to click on the followup post for further modifications that can be done to your skates. This looks like a

What do you call a group of roller derby referees? Im sure theres a cool word we could come up with. Like a murder of crows. Perhaps a judgment of referees? Or we could just stick with the zebra theme and go with a herd of referees. Anyhoo...Derby News Network has a nice overview of the rules

The Texecutioners took home the first place trophy at the Battle Royale 08 WFTDA Western Regional Tournament in Houston on October 5th. They will advance to the 2008 WFTDA National Tournament, along with the other three top-seeded Western Region teams, where they will face the top four teams from

Join the Texas Rollergirls, Sunday November 2nd to celebrate our 2008 season with a comic book theme costume party. Come dressed as your favorite comic book character for cheap entry, only $5 (includes skate rental). Guest DJs STAB! STAB! spin awesome dance music all night. Skate with your favorite

On October 3, 4, and 5, the Battle Royale tournament in Houston will consist of the 12 highest ranked roller derby leagues in the Western region, battling to qualify to move forward to the National tournament. The following leagues have qualfied and have been officially invited to the Battle Royale

The Texas Rollergirls will host a weekend of intensive derby training December 5-7, 2008 in Austin, TX. Sessions include positional workshops, strategy discussions, and a ticket to the WFTDA sanctioned bout: Rose City Rollers Wheels of Justice vs. The Texas Rollergirl Texecutioners. Email bootcamp@t

Join us along with four other Texas leagues this weekend in Dallas for the 2008 Governors Cup Tournament. Everything is bigger in Texas! The Dallas Derby Devils will host the Governors Cup Tournament, the o