At the league's season championship bout Saturday, Seattle's Rat City Rollergirls set a new modern roller derby attendance record, maxing out the lower bowl of KeyArena with 6885 tickets sold and over 6000 people in attendance ...
Last night we went to watch the 2010 home opener bout of the Black-n-Bluegrass Rollergirls that was held at the Florence Fundome ... The place was packed with fans and friends that came to watch the BBRG double header event dubbed “Mother May I?” In the first bout the BBRG Blue Lightnin’ team took on the Vette City Vixens and in the second bout the Black Thunder team took on the Quad Skate Terrors ... Congratulations to the BBRG skaters on two wins for their home opener! ... The first
The Big Easy Rollergirls are rollin' in from the bayou on Saturday, May 15th to take on Assassination City in a grudge match where the results are sure to be heard all the way from Dealey Plaza to Bourbon Street ... It was only a year ago that AC Derby's Special Ops defeated the Big Easy Rollergirls by a mere 9 point spread ... The Big Easy Rollergirls ... Special Ops ... Also playing in the double header are the Big Easy Crescent Wenches who will take on Assassination City's Dirty Little Secret
Hell on Wheels screening in Houston with Houston Roller Derby, Bob Ray (dir) and Werner Campbell (prod) Saturday, April 10, 2010 7:30pm Alamo Drafthouse West Oaks West Oaks Mall #429 Houston, TX Tickets: http://www.drafthouse.com/westoaks/shows.php?id=473 Houston Roller Derby: http://houstonrollerderby.com ...
Going to see the new roller derby movie, Whip It!, this week? Well you will be sure to want to see some live roller derby action after that - so pick up some tickets for our next bout.The so far undefeated Suffra Jets will take on the always the bridesmaid Steam Rollers ... Is [ ... ] ...
We explored the ins and outs of the April 3rd MNRG season championship in the previous article ... Now our attention turns to the Garda Belts and the Dagger Dolls, who will fight it out for third place ... In 2009, I wrote that the Dagger Dolls were in the midst of a pregnant pause. That pause has now lengthened into a multi-year slump that has puzzled players, refs, and fans alike ... Candi Pain and Sweet Justice, co-captains of the Dollys, selected fast, eager jammers to fill the holes left by
So I have this blog thing, wherein I used to write about how much I loved and/or hated roller derby, but then I felt like it was silly to love/hate roller derby so much that I had to tell strangers about it and I realized that all new derby people think they've discovered some new planet and feel compelled to blog about it and I got cynical and felt embarrassed at being so giddy back in the day. So I started posting things that are virtually content-free and sometimes just injokes with people
Before we start talking about these matches, a quick update from our ticket folks. Our non-Xcel/Roy/Ticketmaster outlets sold out as of Monday, but there are still plenty of tickets ... However, if you know that you're coming a little later for this bout, why not pick them up this week at the Roy Box Office (open 10-6pm) or through Ticketmaster? ... If you have tickets already, come early and get in line. While it's great that there are no bad seats in Minnesota's own House of Derby, the bout is
It's The Big Easy Rollergirls' first bout of the year! ... The season opens with a double-header beginning at 6pm on March 6th, 2010 at UNO's HPC Center located at the corner of Elysian Fields and Leon C. Simon Drive. The HPC offers nearly 15,550 square feet of playing surface, telescopic bleacher seating for up to 1,200 fans, concessions booths, and a balcony area for aerial viewing ... The Crescent Wenches start the action at 6PM with a new roster of our toughest rookies ... Watch all the