OHRG News

Skatemare is an awesome event because we get to be really competitive against some of our biggest motivators, idols, and opponents—our own teammates. Skatemare is not a sanctioned WFTDA game, meaning that it is basically about having a great time playing roller derby with our awesome home-team crowd cheering us on. Ghostly music was juxtaposed with holiday tunes. About 250 derby fans joined us for viewing the game, many of them new to the raucous game.

Central Ohio subscribers of Time Warner Cable service can now view the October 17, 2009 game between the Ohio Roller Girls and the Killamazoo Derby Darlin’s, from the comfort of your home. The game is being carried on Time Warner Mid-Ohio’s free Local on Demand channel, 411.

Follow these steps to access the game: 1. Tune to channel 411 2.Scroll the menu to category “Sports” (the menubar along the bottom of your screen.) 3. Scroll the menu to category “General Sports.” 4. Click on “Roller Derby.” 5. Hit select to start streaming the game. 6. Crack open a cold beverage of your choice, dip into a bowl of popcorn, and enjoy the game!

The production of the game is very good, minus one small technical error that lasts a minute or two in the first half. The sound is very good and we are super happy about the way it turned out. Thanks Time Warner Mid-Ohio!

We hope that Time Warner Local on Demand will be back for all of our season 5 home games, stay tuned to our web and media sites for more information as we kick off the 2010 season.

Loraine Acid reports on the ongoing Highway Cleanup Project:

Nine A.M. Saturday morning, found a 10-person crew of Ohio Roller Girls skaters and staff gathered outside of the residence of our day’s taskmaster: Hellion BOI. We were all gathered for a good cause; highway-clean-up.

Driving on the stretch of I-70 that is just west of downtown, a green road sign reveals a stretch of highway under the clean-up care of “The Ohio Roller Girls.” It is pretty neat to see the league’s name on an official road sign (and in OHRG colors!). For nearly a year and a half now, OHRG has been a proud participant in the Ohio Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) Adopt-a Highway Program. Our stretch of highway is between the Hague and Broad Street exits on 70 E/W. We are in charge of keeping clean both sides of the freeway which totals to about 2 miles of road.

The Ohio Roller Girls would like you to help support the teams by participating in a Tastefully Simple fund raiser. The money we earn from this effort will help offset the cost of rink rental for training, travel expenses for our teams on the road, and the cost or printing things like uniforms, promotional materials, etc.

Tastefully simple offers “all kinds of delicious and easy to prepare products” for food lovers, and most of the products make great gifts as well. Know someone with a birthday coming up? Have a family member living off of ramen in a dorm room? Wanna get a head start on holiday shopping? Buy now AND support women’s roller derby in central Ohio!