Featured story by Peter Carlin
http://www.oregonlive.com/O/index.ssf/2009/06/roller_derbys_rough_patch.html

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The Rollers can count fans, friends and corporate/commercial/government supporters all over the city. But unless every available ticket to the championship bout in the Expo Center is sold, it will be that much more difficult to find money to send the Wheels of Justice to interleague bouts. And if the travel team doesn't travel, the league risks losing its national standing. No wonder, then, that every practice and official meeting seems to begin and end with reminders to sell more tickets to the big June 27 championship in the Expo Center. "If that doesn't sell," Stegeman declares flatly, "we're gonna be screwed."