Thanks to my good roller-buddy, Private BeenJammin of the Machete Betties team, I went to the season debut of the Houston Roller Derby. If you haven't been, you've really missed out. I had a blast.
Baseball has Babe Ruth, football has Vince Lombardi. In RollerJam, there’s Joanie Weston. The Bay Bombers’ “Golden Girl” was the first Roller Derby queen, a statuesque star who dominated the sport ...
Joanie Weston,62, a strapping power hitter who passed up a promising, respectable future in softball to become the gum-chewing, power-skating, hip-bumping golden girl of Roller Derby, died of a brain ...