Weekly Rollup and Open Thread, 5/6/2011

By Hurt Reynolds, Last updated Fri May 6 2011 4:49am

Opponents on track, sisters off: In the wake of recent, disastrous tornadoes in Alabama, the Hard Knox Roller Girls made a point of harboring Huntsville's Dixie Derby Girls.

Five Stride Skate Shop gets the New York Times treatment, complete with a little DNN plug.

This week, on stump your elected representatives: Castlegar's West Kootenay Women's Roller Derby for the win.

Derby girls continue to be cancer's worst enemy.

Okinawa's league had the foresight to invite a photographer to shoot their inaugural bout.

Elsewhere in Asia, a league's getting started in Kuala Lumpur. Global derby domination: imminent.

Finally, this week's feature video reprises Victorian Roller Derby League's repeat defeat of Brisbane's Sun State Roller Girls, cementing the Melbourne league's status as the Southern Hemisphere's best team... for now: