Nearly 2,500 fans enjoyed another action-packed display at the Armory Saturday afternoon as the DC Rollergirls' home teams played out the fourth round of the season. more ›

When Kayley Whalen signed up for roller derby in May 2008, she lied about who she was. “I was required to sign a code of conduct that stated, ‘transsexual women are allowed to join if it has been at least two years since surgery, per International Olympic Committee rules’,” she writes in a recent article for FiveOnFive, a roller derby magazine. more ›

Four teams, two bouts, screaming fans galore and roller derby action of the highest order. This was the high-spirited third round of the DC Rollergirls' sixth season last Saturday at the Armory. more ›

Scare Force One continue their winning ways over the DC DemonCats, while the Cherry Blossom Bombshells broke an extended losing streak at the expense of new kids the Majority Whips. more ›

The DC Rollergirls' sixth season kicked off at the Armory on Saturday, with Mayor Vincent Gray blowing the first whistle to get the wheels rolling on a thrilling afternoon of derby, which included the debut of DCRG's newest team, the Majority Whips. more ›

Your D.C. Rollergirls All-Stars took a little trip to Philly last weekend to participate in the East Coast Derby Extravaganza. With D.C. on the rankings bubble for upcoming regionals, their first bout was a must-win. more ›

D.C. (#11 East seed) and Carolina (#7 East seed) faced off Saturday at the Dulles Sportsplex for their second match-up in four months -- Carolina won a 97-92 nail-biter in February. D.C. had high hopes for a reversal of fortunes, but resignations and injury had dealt hefty blows to D.C.'s roster in the intervening months -- instead, the bout turned into the largest defeat D.C. has suffered this season. more ›

It had been a long time coming. The D.C. Rollergirls All-Stars, who had slipped to #11 in the East in the latest rankings, snapped a frustratingly long home losing streak with a decisive 106-64 victory over Providence Roller Derby's Rhode Island Riveters (#10), improving D.C.'s hopes of making this year's WFTDA East Region Playoffs. more ›

Sunday's derby double-header at the D.C. Armory kicked off with the 9th-ranked DC All-Stars looking to snap a worrying losing streak as they welcomed the Maine Port Authorities. The second bout of the afternoon served as a preview of the upcoming championship bout, as undefeated Scare Force One faced the DC DemonCats. more ›

A roller derby feast was on the menu at the Armory Saturday afternoon, as a record crowd of 2,275 enjoyed a mouth-watering double-header. Proceedings began with an East Region clash featuring the ninth-ranked DC Rollergirls All-Stars playing host to the tenth-ranked Dutchland Rollers All-Stars, followed by a home team encounter between the DC DemonCats and the Cherry Blossom Bombshells. more ›

The fourth bout of the DC Rollergirls' home season also served as the league's fifth birthday celebration. Before the main event began, several current skaters who have been with DCRG since season one were joined in the center of the track by a slew of retired "originals" to a warm reception from the crowd. more ›

Well before the first whistle, Saturday's bout at the Armory between the DC DemonCats and Scare Force One promised plenty. After the first two bouts of the D.C. Rollergirls' fifth season, these two teams each held 1-0 records. What's more, SF1 and DCDC have split the first four championship titles. more ›

Round two of the D.C. Rollergirls' fifth season saw Scare Force One come away with a comfortable win over the Cherry Blossom Bombshells, 214 to 136. more ›

The DC Rollergirls' fifth season kicked off Saturday afternoon in front of an excitable crowd at the Armory. The audience witnessed a hard-fought victory for the reigning champion DC DemonCats over the Cherry Blossom Bombshells by a score of 126 to 87. more ›

The DC Rollergirls All-Stars came into this weekend's Eastern Regionals seeded 10th. Of ten teams. Team co-captain Battery Operated told us on Friday that she had modest hopes that the team would climb as high as seventh in the rankings. Respectable performances in defeat against Carolina (#7) and Steel City (#5) in the first two rounds put those lofty aspirations to rest. But our All-Stars did notch a convincing win in their final bout, toppling the Dutchland All-Stars to finish the tournament in 9th place. more ›

The DC Rollergirls' All-Star team arrived in White Plains, New York last night to participate in Derby in the Burbs, the league's Eastern Regional Tournament. The action began this morning, and our All-Stars are scheduled to skate at noon. The Championship bout is slated for Sunday evening.

Yesterday, we caught up with DCRG All-Star Co-Captain, Battery Operated (real name Suzie, a 29-year old land use planner from Northern Virginia. If we told you any more than that, we'd have to kill you.) more ›

Kay Johnson, aka A-Kay 47, is soon going to see greater danger than she finds on the D.C. Rollergirls' flat track. As a member of the U.S. Coast Guard, she is bound for pre-deployment training in Port Smith, Virginia, where she will be stationed until she departs in April for Bahrain. There she will serve on a patrol boat, protecting oil platforms and other sites off the coast of Bahrain and Kuwait from suicide bombers and other threats. more ›

The DC Rollergirls' fourth season kicked off at the D.C. Armory on Sunday afternoon, as reigning champs DC DemonCats held on in a tight contest to beat former perennial winners Scare Force One. The lead changed multiple times, but the ladies in red pulled away in the final five minutes, holding off a last-ditch comeback attempt to remain unbeaten since October 2008. To think: you were probably stuck inside watching the Redskins lose, when you could have been taking in this awesome spectacle. more ›

Saturday's DC Rollergirls event at the D.C. Armory found team Scare Force One entering the bout undefeated over the entire two year existence of DCRG, but left them with their first ever loss, to scrappy challengers DC DemonCats. DCist contributor James Calder has become more or less the unofficial official photographer of DCRG, and he was kind enough to share some of his photos from this historic matchup. There are five remaining scheduled bouts on the Rollergirls schedule; check the web site for dates. more ›

The Feb. 23 start of the first bout of the DC Rollergirls’ second season was delayed by 45 minutes, because the line to get into the D.C. Armory snaked back to the Metro stop. Before the evening was over, the concession stands ran out of food. But the most telling indicator of the Rollergirls’ growing popularity (besides the cover story the Washington Post Magazine ran last fall) is the diversity of the crowd that showed up — all the types you might ordinarily find at a sporting event, plus a decent contingent of punks and goths. more ›

>> D.C. is the fifth most overpriced real estate market in the country. [Examiner] >> Four teenage girls were arrested today after Frederick police said they found 33 pounds of marijuana in their car. [NBC4] >> A police chase led a fleeing driver in a white Cadillac to drive on the wrong side of I-295. [WTOP] >> The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the union representing 10,000 Amtrak workers, has reached a tentative agreement on... more ›

FRIDAY: >> Nothing wrong with another strong all-local lineup: Washington Social Club, These United States and Let's French will be on Black Cat's mainstage. DCist has interviewed two of these bands before, and we're set to get up close and personal with the third. So check 'em out. 9:30 p.m., $10. >> We're definitely impressed with the speed at which DC Rollergirls have gotten their act together since hosting a series of recruitment happy hour/arm... more ›

Flickr user JamesCalder must have risked life and limb to get this shot at the DC Rollergirls' practice. The player looks like she's standing over a recent kill, daring someone to make fun of those awesome socks (we certainly won't be saying anything!). EXIF. more ›

Things are looking a little down for mainstream sports in the district. The Nats are cellar-dwelling. Our two favorite eccentric stars are sidelined. We can always count on DC United to keep our spirits up, but their success only nudges the District's collective batting average above the Mendoza line. With this in mind, we're eagerly looking beyond coverage of sport's established powers. more ›

Friday >>Summer Fridays are meant for free beer, long strolls and casual socializing. Which is exactly why they started the Bethesda Art Walk. We recommend catching the opening reception of the Fraser Gallery's Summer Group Exhibit. Six artists have displayed their new work in photography and painting. The oil on metal paintings by Michael Fitts look like a rougher versions of light, breezy subjects, while Lee Goodwin's gelatin silver prints of black and white landscapes... more ›

FRIDAY: If loving Busta Rhymes' new album, The Big Bang, is wrong — well we sure as hell don't want to be right. Yes, Busta has always been one of those charismatic rap superstars without much substance to back him up, and yes, there was a time when his shortcomings had become awfully grating. But now that he's hooked up with Dr. Dre's Aftermath label, that time appears to have ended. This is what summertime... more ›