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Texas Rollergirls: You Know How to Whistle, Don't You?

Attention, flat track Roller Derby fans: The Texas Rollergirls are looking for someone to blow the opening whistle on Saturday night's double header. You know how to whistle, don't you? Read More | Comment »

5:00PM Thu. Mar. 28, Richard Whittaker

Texas Rollergirls: A Decade of Aggression

2003: The Texas Rollergirls are formed. 2013: The original modern flat track Roller Derby enters its tenth year tonight, February 10. Read More | Comment »

12:00PM Sun. Feb. 10, Richard Whittaker

Sinnerfold Delivers a Whammy

When you've earned it, you've earned it. At the Texas Rollergirls 2012 Whammy Awards last weekend, Sinnerfold took some of the biggest prizes: Most improved, unsung hero, skater of the year and Ms. Texas Rollergirl. Read More | Comment »

4:45PM Wed. Jan. 23, Richard Whittaker

Texas Rollergirls: End of an Era, Beginning of a New One

Teams change. Leagues change. Players come and go. But this year's draft and retirees for the Texas Rollergirls could be the biggest shake up the league has ever seen. Read More | Comment »

4:19PM Wed. Dec. 12, 2012, Richard Whittaker

Texecutioners Want to Bruise the Georgia Peach

Can the Texecutioners bring the Hydra back home? That's the big local question as the Texas Rollergirls' top travel squad straps on their skates in Atlanta for the Women's Flat Track Derby Association national tournament. Read More | Comment »

5:25PM Thu. Nov. 1, 2012, Richard Whittaker

Texas Rollergirls: The 2012 Championship

So it's the Hell Marys versus the Hotrod Honeys for the Texas Rollergirls 2012 championship. And before the big bout on Saturday, what was the lesson of last month's flat track Roller Derby play-offs? Teamwork is everything. Read More | Comment »

9:44AM Fri. Sep. 7, 2012, Richard Whittaker

Texas Rollergirls Pulling for Mayor Leffingwell at Fun Fun Fun (Literally)

Never let it be said the Texas Rollergirls take a weekend off. This Saturday, the local flat track Roller Derby innovators head to title playoff mode, before heading to the Fun Fun Fun Aqua Olympics with Mayor Lee Leffingwell on Sunday. Read More | Comment »

1:00PM Fri. Aug. 17, 2012, Richard Whittaker

Star of Texas Preview: Texas Has a New York State of Mind

It's been a weekend of mixed fortunes for the Texas Rollergirls at the Star of Texas Bowl: The Texecutioners travel team took a double blow of losses, but the new Firing Squad won its first victory. The bigger win is that they have put together a tournament that has gathered skaters and fans from three continents. Read More | Comment »

9:00AM Sun. Jul. 22, 2012, Richard Whittaker

Straight to Hells

Before last weekend's Texas Rollergirls bout began, Muffin Tumble skated up to me. Don't forget, she said, when you write up the match-up, don't forget that the Hell Marys were down four players. Don't forget that when they win. Read More | Comment »

8:00AM Sat. Jun. 9, 2012, Richard Whittaker

Rosey Times for the Texecutioners

The Texas Rollergirls had a lot to celebrate for their mid-May match. It was the debut for the new Firing Squad B-team, and the first home bout in new uniforms for the headlining Texecutioners. But when they hit the track, they just couldn't quite knock the bloom off Portland's Rose City Rollers. Read More | Comment »

9:00AM Fri. Jun. 1, 2012, Richard Whittaker

Portland, You Are in Us

Not turning up for flat track Roller Derby? Uh. That's so 2001. The Hipster City Showdown brings Portland's finest to the ATX this weekend, and gives you a chance to see the new Texas B-team, the Firing Squad, before your friends. Read More | Comment »

9:00AM Fri. May. 18, 2012, Richard Whittaker

Derby's Hipster City Showdown

Little Roller Derby history: Aside from being the first modern flat track league, the Texas Rollergirls created one of the first all-star travel squads, the Texecutioners. Finally, this weekend, they'll get a little support from new B-Team the Firing Squad in their massive face-off against Portland's Rose City Rollers. Read More | Comment »

4:56PM Wed. May. 16, 2012, Richard Whittaker

Nice Skaters Don't Finish Last

In Roller Derby, there are jams and there are jams. And when Sarah Hipel of the Honky Tonk Heartbreakers pulled 13 points and a last-second win out of thin air against the Hotrod Honeys last weekend, and the roof came off the Austin Convention Center, then that was a jam for the ages. Read More | Comment »

11:30AM Thu. Apr. 26, 2012, Richard Whittaker

Texas Rollergirls: The 2012 Outlook

Let's call last month a chance to knock off some rink rust: This weekend's Texas Rollergirls bout is the real season opener, a chance for the 2012 rosters to leave wheel marks along their enemy's backs. And if you know which way this will go, you're a braver pundit that I. Read More | Comment »

10:24AM Fri. Apr. 20, 2012, Richard Whittaker

Roller Derby Update 1/16/12

Can you tell a jammer from a pivot? Have you ever yelled, "Twenty feet, ref!"? Know one end of a microphone from the other? The Texas Rollergirls need you! Announcer tryouts tonight are just part of a jam-packed (and well overdue) Roller Derby update. Read More | Comment »

4:12PM Mon. Jan. 16, 2012, Richard Whittaker

Top Ten For Eight Wheels

Another year, another year-end, another Roller Derby top ten list. Line up on the jam line, and wait for the whistle. Read More | Comment »

3:44PM Fri. Jan. 6, 2012, Richard Whittaker

Drafty on the Flat Track

Another year, another Texas Rollergirls draft: But this one may be the most surprising to date, with some shocking returns mixed with the rookies and transfers. Read More | Comment »

9:34AM Thu. Nov. 24, 2011, Richard Whittaker

Mile High Dreams

Austin's own Texecutioners are acclimating to some elevation this weekend: They are in Broomfield, Colo., for Continental Divide and Conquer, the 2011 Women's Flat Track Derby Association's national tournament. Read More | Comment »

1:15PM Fri. Nov. 11, 2011, Richard Whittaker

Roller Derby Update 10/15/11

It may be getting cooler outside, but it's still hot on the Roller Derby track. While the flat track Texas Rollergirls start packing their bags again, the banked track TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls finish out their 2011 season tonight with the year's biggest rematch. Read More | Comment »

9:15AM Sat. Oct. 15, 2011, Richard Whittaker

Texas Rollergirls by the Bay

With the Women's Flat Track Derby Association South Central Regionals a little over a month away, the Texas Rollergirls' traveling Texecutioners squad gets one last major chance for national level competition this weekend at the Golden Bowl in California. Read More | 1 Comment »

6:00PM Fri. Aug. 12, 2011, Richard Whittaker

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