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In our ongoing quest to spend more hours per week on roller derby than there actually are in a week, DNN is happy (and slightly terrified) to roll out a new weekly feature for 2010, the Weekend In Review.

One of our favorite announcers in the sport, Denver Roller Dolls' Dumptruck, had a little bio piece done on him by a local TV station. This is surprisingly educational viewing -- watch these 4 minutes and you're guaranteed to whip ass in the "Dumptruck" category next time you go on Jeopardy.

Ok, so I realize this is Derby News Network and not Pitchfork, but I just wanted to use this space to point people at The Hate Album, the most recent release from Denver band Kissing Party, which happens to inclu

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In all the chaos of South Central regionals last week, I missed this article from the Colorado Springs Gazette when it was first published.

WCR skater and DNN microphone checka Val Capone holds the mic up for Drew Barrymore during the seventh-inning stretch here at last night's Chicago Cubs / Milwaukee Brewers game as they sing "Take Me Out To the Ball Game," which is ironic on at least two different levels.

Which is a week earlier than the previous release date of October 9, and also happens to be the same day that the Western Regional tournament starts. Good thing to know if your league was planning on doing some promotional events around the release date! Story here.

A little bit of table-turning over at the Detroit Derby Girls' website, where Detroit's Holly Hitsville interviews me and Gnosis about our take on Detroit's current standings, a bit of the history of the Power Rankings, and why both of us apparently secretly want to be Racer McChaseher. Check it out here.

Up till right now we'd been hearing vague targets like "mid-summer" or "early fall" as release dates for Drew Barrymore's Whip It flick, but via movie blog Rope Of Silicon, here's the first hard date we've heard: October 9. Assuming that this movie starts getting promoted about a month before its release, that means we'd start seeing ads in early September ...

Nope, it's not an April Fool's joke (we triple-checked.)

Via the Heraty Law blog:

Frito-Lay has filed an opposition to the registration of Crackerjack’s trademark with the USPTO.