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A huge show packed with scores, new DNN power rankings. She Who Cannot Be Named and Assaultin Pepa from the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls and Five on Five Mag joins us by telephone to discuss Issue #9 of Five on Five which ships Sept 13, 2010. Our “tech guru” Dirty Larry from Derby4All.com joins us to talk derby gear and give us an update about their launch date for the website.

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9 LEAGUES JOIN WFTDA FOR FULL MEMBERSHIP Share

WFTDA continues to experience steady growth, expanding to 98 leagues today.

Nine leagues graduated from Apprentice status to become full WFTDA members:

  • Pueblo Derby Devil Dollz- Pueblo, CO
  • NEO Roller Derby – Akron, OH
  • Killamazoo Derby Darlins – Kalamazoo, MI
  • Santa Cruz Derby Girls – Santa Cruz, CA
  • Lehigh Valley Rollergirls – Allentown, PA
  • Fox Cityz Foxz – Appleton, WI
  • Queen City Roller Girls – Buffalo, NY
  • Central NY Roller Derby – Utica, NY
  • Green Mt. Derby Dames – Essex Junction, VT

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Fox City Foxz offer sneak peek of locally made roller derby Wii game Share

Frozen Codebasehttp://bit.ly/ajRwPM (Green Bay Press Gazette) - You won’t need a pair of skates, physical endurance or a voracious desire to knock elbows to enjoy roller derby for much longer.

A new roller derby videogame for the Nintendo Wii game console will make it possible for anyone with just a pair of thumbs and a working video game controller to enjoy the rough-and-tumble sport.

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Roller Rinks Find Ways to Honor Crash Victim Share

Kitten Vicioushttp://bit.ly/bSbyyI www.whsv.com - A roller rink in Lynchburg is canceling a roller derby bout on Saturday to honor the death of a woman who was killed in a car crash in Rockingham County. The woman was a member of the Lynchburg Blackwater Rollers. She went by the name “Kitten Vicious” at the rink.

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A roller derby that’s more sport than show Share

By Chris Kaltenbach, Baltimore Sun

The Charm City Roller Girls have a message for all those old-time roller derby fans out there: This isn’t your grandma’s roller derby.

“All that stuff is actually completely gone right now,” says Hilary Rosensteel, a roller girl almost since the team was founded in 2005. And by “stuff,” she means the elbows, extravagant cheating and over-the-top showmanship that, back in the ’60s and ’70s, made roller derby the female equivalent of professional wrestling.

These days, she insists, roller derby is more about competition than show. Not, she hastens to add, that derby has turned sedate, or completely respectable.

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