It's an adrenaline-packed, full-contact sport with a do-it-yourself attitude, where bruises eventually fade, but friendships ...

In 2018, I moved by myself from Columbus, Ohio to Portland, Ore., hoping that the moodiness of the trees and mountains might help me discover something about myself. I was working for a nonprofit and ...

Dozens of skaters will transform the beautiful building into a roller derby track for a show described as “live theatre ...

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 ...

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 ...

In most sports, names won’t like “Swamp,” “Jupiter” and “Capt’n Blackout” aren’t ones you’d find on the back of a player’s jersey. Roller derby is a different story. Roller Derby players typically ...

You might be a schoolteacher by day or a lawyer or a stay-at-home mom. But there's something about putting all that behind you in favor of a whole new persona ... You might be a schoolteacher by day ...

It started in the US, but now women-only roller derby is one of Britain's fastest-growing grassroots sports. And with its fast and furious action - not to mention its racy outfits - it's the perfect ...

Twin Valleys Roller Derby (Copyright 2025 by WSLS 10 - All rights reserved.) Southwest Virginia’s premiere roller derby league, Twin Valleys Roller Derby, will host ...

This story is jointly published by nonprofits Amplify Utah and The Salt Lake Tribune, to elevate diverse perspectives in local media through student journalism. At Salt Lake City’s Derby Depot, where ...