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RollerGames is a U.S. television series that presented a theatrical version of the sport of roller derby, and featured a number of skaters who had been in the Roller Games league (1961–1975), as well as younger participants. [2] It was broadcast for one season (1989–1990).
The Los Angeles T-Birds team in 1983. Roller Games was the name of a sports entertainment spectacle created in the early 1960s in Los Angeles, California [1] as a rival to the Jerry Seltzer-owned Roller Derby league, which had enjoyed a monopoly on the sport of roller derby — and its name — since its inception in 1935.
Roller Game (Japanese: ローラーゲーム Hepburn: Rōrā Gēmu) was a variation of the sport of roller derby that was played in Japan by the Roller Game League, established in 1990. Roller Game was played on either a flat or banked track, and on either traditional (quad) roller skates or inline skates .
Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played on an oval track by two teams of five skaters. It is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leagues [note 1] worldwide, though it is most popular in the United States. [2] A 60-minute roller derby game, or bout, is a series of two-minute timed jams.
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The league has won all nine games it has played this season with a 511.81 game point average. Springfield Roller Derby has won three of seven games played this season, with a game point average of ...
The Old School Derby Association (OSDA) was an association of roller derby leagues in the United States. The OSDA was founded by Kenneth Sikes in 2007, with nine member leagues. [ 1 ] It has the stated ambition of bringing together innovations in flat-track derby with the traditions of the banked-track sport. [ 2 ]
Down and Derby: The Insider's Guide to Roller Derby. Soft Skull Press. ISBN 978-1-59376-274-2. Gunner, Neil (December 2014). Into Battle: The Roller Derby Experience in Photos and Interviews. Neil Gunner. ISBN 978-0-9937897-0-0. Miller, D.D. (June 2016). Eight-Wheeled Freedom: The Derby Nerd's Short History of Flat Track Roller Derby. Wolsak ...