"This is the first really big event that we've been able to do in Des Moines in many years, and we're just so excited," said ...

DETROIT - By day they raise their sons and daughters, save lives, and shape young minds in the classroom. By night, they are ...

Crump went on to win 228 races before riding her last race in 1998, a month shy of her 50th birthday and nearly 30 years ...

Diane Crump, who in 1969 became the first woman to ride professionally in a horse race and a year later became the first female jockey in the Kentucky Derby, has died. She was 77.

Diane Crump, who in 1969 became the first woman to ride professionally in a horse race and a year later became the first ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Each person who goes inside the Derby Depot in Salt Lake City seems to have a reason for being there. That safe space, however, may be coming to a close, after they found out their ...

DENVER — On a quiet block in northwest Denver, behind an ordinary wooden fence, skaters lean into a slanted track and hurl themselves around its curves. It is, in almost every respect, an unlikely ...

In 2018, I moved by myself from Columbus, Ohio to Portland, Ore., hoping that the moodiness of the trees and mountains might help me discover something about myself. I was working for a nonprofit and ...

"Leave It on the Track" follows a grieving teen who moves to Portland and finds healing, queer community and maybe a little romance on the roller derby track. "A lot of people in derby talk about how ...

Out on the rink, Boston Roller Derby’s Abby Coburn is known as “Debbie Downher.” But nickname aside, she said she feels nothing but pleased to be crashing into her fellow skaters. “It's a space where ...

A Charlotte-based sports organization filed a lawsuit against its former ticket company. Charlotte Roller Derby, the women’s league founded in 2006 hosted at Grady Cole Center, alleges Brown Paper ...

When she laces up her skates, Paralympian Robin Tueting turns into her roller derby moniker — Hot Tamale. “It's pandemonium,” she said. “It's bananas, action all the time in roller derby.” Tueting — ...