Boston University is a hockey school — regardless if it is being played on ice or tile. After a dominant regular season run, BU’s Division III roller hockey team punched their ticket to the National ...

Moving on a set of skates is not unusual to the members of the Gainesville Roller Rebels. With helmets and heavy padding on their elbows and knees, they look like a cavalry in armor. Each skater has ...

In New York’s Nassau County, the Roller Rebels have joined with civil rights lawyers to face down the Republican county executive, Bruce Blakeman. By Corey Kilgannon At 6 feet 4 inches before even ...

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. Confluence Crush, a 501(c) ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Ready. Set. Skate. As skaters zip past, pushing and shoving each other for position, the air fills with the cheers and screams of fans rooting for their favorite teams. It’s the ...

The tagline for “Whip it,” a 2009 sports drama, resonated with a young Sam Diemert as they stared at a flier in an A&W for a new skater cycle in Port Orchard. Much like the movie’s main character, who ...

M.E. Ortman had never worn a pair of roller skates before showing up for her first Springfield Roller Derby practice two years ago. An educator, wife and mother of two, Ortman was in need of an ...

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 ...

The WestCo Roller Derby team will host its third match of the season at 7 p.m. June 24 at Palmer Imaging Arena in Salem. The team will take on Iron Mountain Roller Derby out of Cumberland, Md. “Both ...