Starting today, leadjammer.com and DNN are one. All news and Gnosis' blog posts will now be at http://derbynewsnetwork.com. Leadjammer.com, meanwhile, will be re-tooled to support a more robust and flexible "boutcasting" engine. If you caught the live play-by-play of the WFTDA Eastern or Championship tournaments last year, you'll know what I mean.

Enjoy the new DNN!

A Green Bay video game company that has sponsored Madison's Mad Rollin' Dolls is working to develop a roller derby video game.

Frozen Codebase, which was founded by Ben Geisler, a former employee of Middleton-based Raven Software, and also has sponsored Milwaukee's Brew City Bruisers, is partnering with the Women's Flat Track Derby Association on the project. Full Story >>

According to Estro Jen on the Yahoo rollergirl list, a documentary on roller derby will air on ESPN this Sunday, May 18 at approximately 10:30AM (PT/ET) during SportsCenter and then will re-air at 11PM. We believe this is the same crew that came out to cover a Renegades event here in Phoenix earlier this year. A copy of ESPN's announcement follows:

You won't see any movement in the elite portions of this list; the top ten in the WFTDA are the same as they were in January. All the action this spring has been in the upper reaches, but now that the WFTDA has 55 member leagues (39 of whom are ranked) anything in the top 20 is worth some bragging rights. Read on for the numbers.

The Ace of Cakes episode on the Food Network featuring the Charm City All Stars will air on Thursday April 24 at 10:30pm and will repeating as follows.

April 24, 2008 10:30 PM ET/PT
April 25, 2008 1:30 AM ET/PT
April 27, 2008 11:00 PM ET/PT
April 28, 2008 2:00 AM ET/PT
May 01, 2008 1:30 PM ET/PT
May 06, 2008 10:00 PM ET/PT
May 07, 2008 1:00 AM ET/PT

So, have you been lured into thinking the only tournaments and other big events are WFTDA's East, West, and National Playoffs? Granted, those are big, but there are plenty of other events goin' on around North America that are well worth checking out!

What you've missed!

For the guys who missed it, check out the discussion board. Lots of things are going on in men's roller derby.

Hi everyone!

This is just a shameless plug to get y'all to check out some images made by my very talented husband. He's a professional photojournalist and started documenting roller derby at Dust Devil 2006, shot at Heartland Havoc, the Texas Shootout, along with quite a few interleague bouts.

This happened at the Throwdown scrimmages
Body: One of our Navy City Roller Girls sustained a very serious injury doing what she loved most...ROLLERDERBY. She broke her right ankle in 3 places, she now has 11 screws and 2 plates.
Due to excessive swelling she must wait for a hard cast, after the hard cast comes 6-8 weeks with no weight bearing on her leg.
The doctors have told her that she is in amazing health for a woman of her age and should recover completely.

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