Maine Roller Derby's Killer Quick whips up a pounding dose of all things derby.
April 25, 2008
Roller Derby on Newsweek!
Featured this week as a video blog on Newsweek was Boston Derby Dames and Gotham Girls Roller Derby. This is particularly huge for the roller derby community as we are working to bash those stereotypes of roller derby depicted as a staged, fake event. Flat-track roller derby is a SPORT, people! It's hard to be recognized as such because of it's history and it's quirkiness, but I assure you, my friend, Roller Derby is a sport.
This is such a big deal for roller derby. Most of our press coverage is teacher-by-day-hell-on-wheels-by-night type of crap. While it's exciting to play up injuries and "personas" (which, on our league, just doesn't exist), it does nothing for legitimizing the sport.
I've got Olympic dreams. I want to see roller derby on ESPN. Maybe it won't happen until years after I've retired, but I want to see it happen. Good grief, I love this sport.
The video blog is found at www.newsweek.com/. You've got to search on the right of the home page in the video blogs where you'll find the two-part series.
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