Feb 6, 2012

QCRG’s own Lake Effect Furies, usually noted for being icy cool, spiced things up a bit and brought some real heat this past Saturday evening. That was the night of the team’s latest fundraiser, the “Hot & Frosty Furies Chili Cook Off.” A crowd of over 150 people gathered to celebrate Buffalo’s All-Star roller derby team and...

Feb 2, 2012

This weekend, the Furies caravanned westward to Grand Rapids, Michigan for their first bout of the season to play the Grand Raggidy All Stars. In a tough bout where the Furies started out strong and stayed within striking distance until the very end, Grand Raggidy won 161-123. The first period saw strong strategic and cohesive play from the Furies which seemed...

Jan 31, 2012

It’s well known that once involved, roller derby consumes your life; in a good way of course. But in the case of Mama Chops, roller derby invaded her family. It was Her Ass Her that put the Roller Derby Bug in Mama Chops’ ear (then Kari Lambright) over a drink and a tuna melt (that got stuck to Her Ass Her’s sleeve) at a local bar. Training camp was coming...

Test Events

Jan 19, 2012

The skaters who make up the Queen City Roller Girls, Western New York’s first all-female roller derby league, are a group of women that are difficult to efine. It is this very challenge to traditional labels and stereotypes which league members find attractive about the sport. Each time the skaters enter the track they battle against the established western...