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HEY ARIZONA DERBY FANS!!!!!

We have been doing pretty good this year with the predictions. Let's do some for the rest of this month in Arizona derby!!

TONIGHT - TUCSON ROLLER DERBY

IRON CURTAIN VS. VICE SQUAD - 2 pretty equal teams but I was very impressed with the IC at the last bout and I think they will have a slight edge. IRON CURTAIN BY LESS THAN 10 in a medium scoring (50-80) game.

In Tucson, it was the opener of Tucson Roller Derby's season #5. In the first bout, The Copper Queens without star jammer Cheap Ore was able to manage to defeat the Iron Curtain 87-69. In the second bout, the Furious Truckstop Waitresses, who was also skating short was able to use a jammer rotation of primarily Sloppy Flo and Peaches Rodriguez to trample Whiskey Mick and Vice Squad with a final score of 95-46.

(Updated: to adjust final score.)

On Saturday, February 16, 2008, you could feel the walls of Bladeworld vibrating for about a quarter mile around because of what was going on inside.

This was the rivalry that pits the #4 ranked Texas Rollergirls (TXRG) Texecutioners against the #6 ranked Tucson Roller Derby (TRD) Saddletramps. The last time these two teams met was in December, 2006 and in that bout, Tucson beats Texas 62-60 in overtime.

The following is a press release from the Phoenix City Rollers, formerly known as the Arizona Bruisers:

As life evolves, so does derby.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TEMPE, AZ - - Michi-chan Roller Sports Productions, a part of REC Networks is proud to announce that REC Networks founder and hostess of the popular Arizona Derby Report video program, Michelle A. Eyre known in the derby world as "Michi-chan" will be doing the jam by jam (or play by play) announcing of the February 16, 2008 scrimmage between the Arizona Bruisers and Duke City Derby from Albuquerque, NM.

Joining her at the mic will be King Daevid Mackenzie from KPHX radio who will be doing color commentary during the scrimmage.

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On a cold but not as nippy night as the January bout, Arizona Roller Derby has played what some consider as a historic game as we saw the return of Trish The Dish and Ivanna S. Pankin who was the original Bruiser captain. They will take on the strongest team in the league, The Bad News Beaters.

The roster of the 2007 Bruisers recently split off from AZRD. Therefore, AZRD needed to compose a new team. Skaters were selected at random from the Brawlarinas and Surly Gurlies to play on this interim Bruisers team.

The Arizona Derby Report has been made aware of several derby related events taking place in both Phoenix and Tucson. With the timing of these events, it is possible for the hardcore derby fan to attend all of them.

The AZDR will be at these events, which we are billing as the "Arizona Derby Love Weekend".

It was an interesting night at the Castle Sports Club as the Arizona Derby Dames open up their 2008 season with a non-regulation event which consists of 4 "mini-bouts". These 4 mini-bouts are 10-minutes long and consist of 1-minute jams. Unlike other local leagues, AZDD does stop their clock between each jam, which allows them to use the full 10 minutes for game-play.

According to information received from multiple sources and then confirmed today by a MySpace bulletin, Arizona Derby Dames (AZDD) founder and Coffin Draggers team captain Suzy Homewrecker has announced that she will no longer actively skate for the league after the January 26 demo bout.

Suzy cites that her current work schedule does not permit her to continue skating for the league. Suzy has also obtained some art space in Downtown Phoenix where she will work on her Homewrecker creative work.