How do you craft an authentic sport out of the outlandish, scripted spectacle that was the roller derby of the twentieth century? And why the heck has competitive flat-track derby caught on fast enough and deeply enough for Toronto to play host to the first Roller Derby World Cup earlier this month? Thirteen national teams from four continents played a sold-out four-day tournament ... and this, when the rules of the (real) game were developed less than a decade ago.
I look at these questions for my new article in The Classical (that new magazine I was telling you about). Special attention goes to the Detroit Derby Girls, whose sold-out season opener I attended.
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