In the parking lot of a Redwood City sports complex, more than a dozen athletes arrived from Los Angeles, carrying roller skates in seemingly every color imaginable. Smiling volunteers awaited them at ...

This story originally published online at The 9th Street Journal. It’s a Saturday morning at Wheels, the indoor roller skating rink in East Durham, and the place has been taken over by the Carolina ...

Roller derby has long been a subject of debate: Is it a legitimate sport or just pro wrestling on wheels? For some, it’s a high-speed, full-contact athletic competition. For others, it’s a showy ...

Most people have heard of roller derby, but many view it as mere entertainment, thanks to the theatrical extravagance and choreographed slapstick violence that characterized women's derby of the 1970s ...

The floor of Interskate 91 South is often filled with young skaters teetering around the track, but the athletes on it now are sure on their skates, focused and ready to battle. Two jammers sit poised ...

Nicole Williams, better known as Bonnie Thunders, laps her opponents during a west coast regional roller derby tournament in June. Credit: Recess the Photographer Twenty years ago, Kim “Rocket Mean” ...

What would my derby name be? This became one of the many questions – and what I considered to be of high importance – in my ...

On a hot July night in Corvallis, with temperatures approaching 100 degrees, the sounds of wheels echoed through Langton Hall. Despite the heat, players had strapped on their skates, pads and helmets ...

M.E. Ortman had never worn a pair of roller skates before showing up for her first Springfield Roller Derby practice two years ago. An educator, wife and mother of two, Ortman was in need of an ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Five Kansas City athletes made Team USA for the first time in their league’s history. The members of Fountain City Roller Derby are heading to Asunción, Paraguay, in October ...