The Long Island Roller Rebels suffered a defeat on Tuesday when a judge blocked the roller derby team’s effort to temporarily halt Nassau County’s ban on transgender athletes competing on female ...

“Noise, color, body contact” is how Leo Seltzer, the creator of roller derby, described it to The New York Times in 1971. He invented the game during the Great Depression in 1935. Roller derby, with ...

A brief, and hopefully accurate, summary of the Old School Derby Association rulebook: There are three different positions in roller derby — Jammer, pivot and blocker. The jammer, wearing a star on ...

In the parking lot of a Redwood City sports complex, more than a dozen athletes arrived from Los Angeles, carrying roller skates in seemingly every color imaginable. Smiling volunteers awaited them at ...

It’s trivia night at your local bar, and you’re asked to name a sport that emerged in the 1930s, sold out stadiums and arenas and graced network television stations multiple times per week. Oh, and it ...