Best Banked-Track Battlers - TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls - Best of Austin - 2011

Best of Austin 2011

Best Banked-Track Battlers: TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls

courtesy of Earl McGehee

How many sports can you name where a bout can get settled on skates or with a pillow fight? The original banked-track Roller Derby revivalists have kept some of that Seventies sass in their sport. And yes, they still have Spank Alley.

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