“Noise, color, body contact” is how Leo Seltzer, the creator of roller derby, described it to The New York Times in 1971. He invented the game during the Great Depression in 1935. Roller derby, with ...

From its beginnings in the 1930s, the sport of roller derby was designed to give off an air of intimidation. Terms like “fresh meat” (new players) and “whip” (an assist technique), along with menacing ...

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 ...

Uniquely is a Fresno Bee series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Fresno area so special. It’s Tuesday night and Jodie Mettler is playing ...

It's 7:30 p.m. on a Tuesday and the sounds of roller skates scraping against concrete are trickling out from a seemingly unordinary brick-red warehouse called The Apex. Faint shouts from a coach ...

Slammer Head and Strawberry Poundcake lined up next to one another. A line of makeup ran up Slammer Head’s right cheek over the nose and down the other side, like a pair of black wings. “Five seconds!

Twenty years ago, Kim “Rocket Mean” Stegeman put an ad on the back page of the Portland Mercury. She didn’t have a business to advertise. She had nothing to sell. “My phone number was on the back of ...

LEBANON, Tenn. (WTVF) — It's another day of practice for these teenagers. The Nashvillains are Middle Tennessee's junior roller derby team, and they are one of the best in the country. "I play roller ...

AHOY THERE, SEXY BRAINS! It's time once again to put your brainy-brain to the test with this week's edition of POP QUIZ PDX—our weekly, local, sassy-ass trivia quiz. And in this edition, we're testing ...

Learning how to get up from a fall is the most important lesson in life and roller derby. Philadelphia writer and roller derby player Erica Vanstone shares how the sport taught her both ways to get ...

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 ...

As Pride celebrations bring chosen family together across Southeast Michigan, the state's roller derby tracks buzz with their own year-round version of radical belonging. Here, the search for ...