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We are currently updating our site to bring you the latest news and events. For the latest BERG news, please visit our Blog, Facebook or Twitter while we update our media page.

For now, please enjoy some articles from our early years and recent photos from our BERG friends and fans.

Big Easy Rollergirls by AKoch Photography Photos by Andreas Koch.
Photos by Allyson O’Keefe.

Sally Asher Arts
Photos by Sally Asher.
Big Easy Rollergirls on flickr Photos submitted by our own Rollergirls and our fans!
Big Easy Rollergirls on YouTube Videos submitted by our fans!

 

Big Easy Rollergirls in W Magazine!!!

“The gumbo is hot, the music is hotter, and the people are out of this world. Despite all the hardships, the good times still roll in New Orleans, America’s wildest and most eccentric city.” Check out the April 2008 issue of W Magazine for a 60-page spread by famed photographer Bruce Weber, including a section on the Big Easy Rollergirls. Behind-the-scenes video with the skaters

Check out RINK RASH on NewOrleans.com, by our own Vieux Careen!

Tune into WTUL 91.5 FM in New Orleans for regular announcements about Big Easy Rollergirls

 

April 2009 – Times Picayune “Big Easy Rollergirls Skate for a Good Cause”

March 2009 – The Atlantic “All the Street’s a Stage”

January 2009 – Times Picayune Hospitality entrepreneurs take convention recruitment into their own hands

December 2008 – Times Picayune The 60-Second Interview: SmasHer

October2008 – Times Picayune Big Easy Lets the Good Times Roll

October 2008 – Times Picayune Big Easy Rollergirls’ season opener tonight!

Sept. 2008 – Tulane New Wave School of Hard Knocks

July 2008 – Times Picayune “Run, NOLA, run”

July 2008 – WDSU “Roller Girls Give Chase In La. Version Of Bull Run”

July 2008 – WDSU Offsides with Fletcher Mackel

July 2008 – Yahoo!.News Photos from San Fermin Festival

July 2008 – Associated Press “Roller girls give chase in La. version of bull run”

July 2008 – NOLA.com “Run With It, Roll With It”

July 2008 – Times Picayune “Running of the Bulls N.O.-style”

July 2008 – NOLA.com “Second annual ‘Running of the Bulls’ rolls through the Quarter Saturday”

June 2008 – New York Times Student Journalism Institute “Despite Smaller Membership, Rollergirls Still Hard-Hitting”

June 2008 – Austin Chronicle Hell Marys Nearly Home

May 2008 – Austin Chronicle Playing Through

April 2008- W Magazine A spread on New Orleans features the Big Easy Rollergirls

February 2008 – LSU Daily Reveille Valentine’s Day events scattered around city

February 2008 – WWL-TV Sportrait: New Orleans rollergirl league

November 2007 – NOLA.com Launches Roller Derby Blog! Flat Track Fever Debuts

September 2007 – The Gambit “Best of New Orleans 2007: Best Local Big Easy Rollergirl”

August 2007 – The Gambit “Big Easy Rollergirls Calendar Pinup Release Party”

July 2007 – Times Picayune “See & Be Scene: Dirty Linen”

July 2007 – Diario de Navarre “Encierro en Nueva Orleans”

July 2007 – Times Picayune “Big Easy Rollergirls to reinact famed bull run”

May 2007 – Times Picayune “Dirty Dogs for Derby”

May 2007 – Times Picayune “Big Easy Rollergirls close out season with party”

May 2007 – The Gambit “Arts & Entertainment ”

May 2007 – New Orleans CityBusiness “Big Easy Rollergirls deliver bruising derby action”

March 2007 – USA Rollersports Magazine “Frivolity in a Forgotten City ”

March 2007 – Times Picayune “Rollergirls want some aggressive skaters”

March 2007 – New Orleans Magazine “Easy Rollin’”

Feb. 2007 – Times Picayune “Back to Basics”

Dec. 2006 – Health & Fitness “Rolling Thunder”

Nov. 2006 – UNO Driftwood “Roller Derby Action”

Nov. 2006 – NolaFugees.com “Warriors of the Flat Rink”

Oct. 2006 – Times Picayune “Rocking and Rolling”

Oct. 2006 – Times Picayune “Rollergirls Make Algiers Their Rink”

Oct. 2006 – The Gambit “A Sport for the Well-Wheeled”

Sept. 2006 – The Gambit Premiere bout touted as a hot pick!

Sept. 2006 – New Orleans Magazine Big Easy Rollergirls are”People to Watch!”

Sept. 2006 – Tulane New Wave Big Easy Rollergirls Ready for Prime Time

July 2006 – WTUL Community Gumbo “Through Hell and High Water”

June 2006 – Where Y’at Magazine Big Easy Rollergirls named “Best local sports team”

May 2006 – Times Picayune “On a Roll”

April 2006 – WWOZ Vandal O’Riley & the Marquee de Squad

March 2006 – CNN Watch the girls with Anderson Cooper at Vaughans!

Aug. 16, 2005 – Times Picayune Spin Sisters