Better than bread and circusesOne of the classical world's entertainment staples was gladiatorial combat, a blood sport that allowed mud-caked plebes to forget, however briefly, the squalor of their day-to-day lives. In modern times, as we noted in a news story last month, the blood sport known as roller derby -- it's amazing, in retrospect, that those resourceful Romans never thought about taking gladiatorial matches co-ed and putting contestants on wheels -- has filled a similar role.
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Take that, SNLWhen KOFY-TV proudly announced several months ago that roller derby was returning to the little screen, we professed some skepticism about how much attention the game's scheduled time slot -- from noon to 1 p.m. on Saturdays -- would generate. The time has come for us and other doubters to eat their hats, press cards, and all, because the ratings from derby's inaugural television run on March 14 are in. It turns out the San Francisco Bay Bombers game that aired that afternoon blew
Iva Vendetta, Miss Moxxxie, Ghoulina, and the other Bay Area Derby Girls are into piercings, tattoos, partying, sexual innuendo, and whatever they decide roller derby is going to be
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