James Dator has been covering a wide range of sports for SB Nation for over a decade, with a special focus on the NFL. It's common to be wary about roller derby when approaching your first bout. There ...

SCOTTS VALLEY — The Santa Cruz Derby Girls hosted the fourth annual Boardwalk Empire Tournament last weekend at their private training facility, a premier tournament in the roller derby ...

Defending champions, the Rose City Rollers of Portland, Oregon, skate before the final championship game against the Victorian Roller Derby League from Melbourne, Australia. (Brad Larrison for ...

SANTA CRUZ >> In the span of a couple weeks late last year in which they nearly won a national championship, the Santa Cruz Boardwalk Bombshells went from being the hungry and feared piranha in a ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Josie Simonis played every team sport they could get their hands on as a kid. Simonis wrestled, played football and baseball -- "It was a major part of my life." But to get access ...

A Melbourne roller derby team has won the sport's world championships, becoming the first team from outside the USA to do so. Victorian Roller Derby League (VRDL) All Stars comfortably won the Women's ...

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 ...

Finland's Kallio Rolling Rainbow beat Dublin Roller Derby to win European Continental Cup title Result: Final - Kallio Rolling Rainbow 175-152 Dublin Roller Derby Tiger Bay Brawlers win third-place ...

The fast-skating, hard-hitting sport of roller derby was incredibly popular in the United States from the 1940s to the 1970s. The sport fell out of favor and into dormancy for several years — until a ...

It’s a lot to unpack, but let’s give it a shot: Flat track roller derby is a contact sport played on an oval track by players in quad skates. The games are commonly called “bouts,” and the ...