The gimmicks, elbows and unabashed fighting are gone, and its participants hail from an array of professional backgrounds. This is roller derby, 21st century style ...

PROSPECT PARK, BROOKLYN -- Hundreds of skaters, support staff and fans flood LeFrak Center at Lakeside skating rink in Prospect Park for some good-natured, if not hard-hitting, Saturday night fights.

In the parking lot of a Redwood City sports complex, more than a dozen athletes arrived from Los Angeles, carrying roller skates in seemingly every color imaginable. Smiling volunteers awaited them at ...

Although the Denver Roller Dolls and Rocky Mountain Rollergirls are often billed as crosstown rivals, their traveling all-star teams hardly ever skate against each other: The last time DRD’s Mile Club ...