The Los Angeles Derby Dolls | LA Eastside.com

"Ever since I first got word that there was a roller derbyleague in Los Angeles a few years back, I embarked on a quest to experience the awe inspiring, fast paced action that is the Los Angeles Derby Dolls. The derby dolls are some of the toughest women I have ever seen because this is a FULL CONTACT sport. They put themselves on the line every game and they give it everything they have with every jam."

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Weekly LA Scene: LA Derby Dolls at the Doll Factory, Sirens v Tough Cookies

Weekly Pick!

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LA Times Events: Sirens Vs. Tough Cookies

Much like the "Terminator" movies, the search for banked track roller derby dominance continues. Expect carnage. Brutal and beautiful, L.A.'s favorite scarred, skirted band of skating maniacs will attempt to hip-check, knuckle-scrape and eye-gouge their way to gladiatorial greatness. (This is a 21+ event!)

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Break on Through to the Other Side: “The Big One” Derby Tourney @ Toyota Sports Center, 5/16/2009 | Los Anjealous

12.56pm. May 17, 2009. Somewhere along the 105W. Fact: DF loves him some derby. This will surprise no one. And yet that love has always been staunchly monogamous: DF has almost exclusively followed derby of the banked-track variety, and in particular derby practiced by his beloved LA Derby Dolls. And yet to paraphrase the Bard, “There is more derby in heaven and earth, DF, than is dreamt of in your philosophy.” Today, DF goes through the derby looking glass to explore the world beyond LADD of 2-D tracks and WFTDA teams from ‘round the Golden State.

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Caught in the Act! | People.com

"Drew Barrymore, "hugging everyone" at L.A.'s Doll Factory, where the actress took in the Derby Dolls' match from the front row of the VIP bleachers, an onlooker tells us. "It was like she knew everyone in the stands," says the spectator of Barrymore, who got familiar with the roller derby as the director of the upcoming comedy Whip It! 

Accompanied by six girlfriends and three guy pals, Barrymore also took lots of pictures and drank a Tecate beer at the sporting event."

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