When the current Chicago Derby started, the field included a butcher, a candy wrapper, a steel mill worker who holds eight roller-skating records, a commercial artist, a tattooed French sailor who ...

(THE CONVERSATION) For 20 years, Philly Roller Derby skaters, who go by names like Wooly Slammoth, TrailBlazeHer and Reba Smackentire, have jammed and blocked their way around oval skating rinks in ...

"Everybody can do that," she said of skating. "Not everybody can commit to a team. Not everybody plays sports." The article ...

People interested in honing their hockey skills are encouraged to join a free learn-to-play program at the Roller Roost ...

Mia Babino, 18, plays field hockey at the State University ... countered Urena, of the Roller Rebels. “If people gave up playing sports because they thought they were going to lose, we wouldn ...

"It [roller derby] is a full contact team sport played on quad roller-skates, there’s an oval shape track and each team will field five skaters at a time. One of them will be the 'jammer', they ...

The WFTDA, which governs flat-track roller derby, had formed just one year prior with a goal of “revolutioniz[ing] the role of women in sports.” I’m a kinesiology professor who studies ...