To start this week off right, we have a chance for you to win two tickets to see rockers Garbage featuring Kristen Kontrol at The Mill and Mine in Knoxville, TN tomorrow night at 8pm!!! We will post three trivia questions to our Facebook page throughout the day so please hop on over there to play along. The winner will be announced at 7pm EST tonight!
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Hard Knox Roller Girls have reached the halfway point in their 2016 season. Round three of their 10 year anniversary season will see HKRG lace up against the Central Ohio Roller Derby of Mount Vernon, Ohio. This will be the first time these teams have taken the track together. Who will be victorious? Find out July 16th at Maryville College’s Cooper Athletic Center.
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I don’t come from a skating background other than rollerblading around my old neighborhood as a kid. Being relatively new to Knoxville I didn’t have many friends, much less any connections to the local roller derby scene. I didn't show up at a meet-n-greet to get recruited or meet any of the Hard Knox Roller Girls around town and get talked into checking it out. I honestly didn’t even know Knoxville had its own roller derby league. No, I was introduced to roller derby by different means…via virtual reality.
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Cat-snuggler, day-hiker, 10-year derby vet, Allstars’ Captain, and now league President, Barbara Bushwhacker is like the Horse...err…Unicorn of a Different Color. As an original member of the Hard Knox Roller Girls, she has watched the league grow and evolve into what it is today. In Brooke’s interview last month, she chose Bush as July’s Featured Skater because she said: In the spirit of our ten years of derby, I would love to read Barbara Bushwhacker’s answers to some of these questions. I am sure she could elaborate more on some of these thoughts. So to appease Brooke’s request, I’ve repeated some of the same questions I asked her back in June to get Bush’s viewpoints now. Let’s see if Bush’s opinion on things is different or stays the same.
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