Editors' Linkblog

Jane McManus, aka Lesley E. Visserate of Suburbia Roller Derby, writes about Suzy's appearance in the Body Issue of ESPN Magazine, available on newsstands today. I've seen it. It's amazing.

"Let Suzy Hotrod Take You For A Ride" on ESPN.com

The New York Shock Exchange's Ace Of Skates and Pioneer Valley Dirty Dozen's Jurasskick Park are featured in a gorgeous action photo in the new New York Times Magazine! The piece includes a brief article about "what they were thinking" and tells an excellent, if brief, story about modern men's flat-track roller derby. Congratulations, MRDA!

Drumroll, please! Here they are - the much anticipated photos of Suzy Hotrod in ESPN Magazine's 'The Body Issue.' (Editor's note: on 10/5/11 there were 2 photos) Run, do not walk, to your local newstand and buy three. One to save in a plastic sleeve in your archives, one to pore over personally, and one to frame and hang on a wall wherever you need that reminder to TRAIN HARD when you don't wanna...

On what Hotrod celebrated on her facebook fan page as "a great day for roller derby," USA Today announced that the Gotham Girls All-Stars and Team USA skater will appear alongside "the WNBA's Sylvia Fowles; LPGA rookie Belen Mozo; track and field star Natasha Hastings; hockey player Julie Chu; tennis player Vera Zvonareva; surfer Steph Gilmore; ... and bowler Kelly Kulick."

Since yesterday, there's been quite a bit of online discussion on college football and sports blogs about the helmet similarities between Charm City Roller Girls All-Stars and the new Maryland Terps (University of MD football) helmets/ unis.

Today in her morning press conference, the mayor of Baltimore gave a nice rebuttal to all the commenters on sports blogs suggesting that derby isn't a sport.

Ray Baranowski, husband of Holly Go Hardly of the Charm City All-Stars, designed and painstakingly hand painted the team's helmets with a portion of the state flag 3 years ago. The MD Terrapins, University of Maryland's football team, are sporting almost exactly the same design. Coincidence? You be the judge.

You can read the roster on DNN, or go congratulate them on their facebook page!

We talk a lot about "revolution" in derby. Right now, this morning, this very minute, an amazing revolution is taking place in Libya. Take some time today to witness history in real time!

It happened. Witness, the evolution of our sport in print.

Here at Derby Ranch, we are fortunate to get to see lots of things before they are finished and presented to the derbyverse. This here video in it's various pre-release formats has been making me laugh for a few weeks now. I thought I'd share in case it brings a LOL to your day, too!