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The Magic City Misfits (MCM) is a
roller derby Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played on an oval track by two teams of five skaters. It is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leaguesA Roller Derby league is synonymous with an individual club or team in other team sports, as ...
league based in
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. Founded in 2009, it consists of two teams, which play against teams from other leagues. The league was formed by a group of male jam skaters in April 2009, and joined the Men's Derby Coalition in September 2010.Justice Feelgood Marshall,
Preview: MRDA Championships
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Derby News Network Derby News Network (DNN), based in Baltimore, was an internet broadcast network, founded in 2007, which featured the women's skating sport of roller derby. DNN used the internet to collect remote streaming video Video on demand (VOD) is a media ...
'', October 21, 2011
The Men's Derby Coalition Announces Its Newest Members: St. Louis GateKeepers and the Magic City Misfits
", Men's Derby Coalition, 1 September 2010
From September 2010 to October 2012, the Misfits lost only a single game, to the New York Shock Exchange at the 2011 Championships of the renamed
Men's Roller Derby Association The Men's Roller Derby Association (MRDA) is the international governing body of men's flat track roller derby. It was founded in 2007 under the name Men's Derby Coalition (renamed to Men's Roller Derby Association in 2011), and currently has 59 ...
(MRDA). The team placed third in that tournament, and during 2012 set a new record by scoring 617 points in an MRDA bout. At the 2012 Championships, Magic City took fourth place, losing narrowly to Shock Exchange in their final match. Members of the Misfits have also been involved in local women's roller derby, including Tim Kugler, who coached the Ocala Cannibals Roller Derby.Andy Fillmore,
Ocala roller derby team gets ready to start its first season
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Star-Banner The ''Ocala StarBanner'' is the daily newspaper in Ocala, Florida, United States, and serves Marion County and the surrounding communities. The ''Ocala StarBanner'' has a daily circulation of about 43,000, and is the 19th-largest newspaper in t ...
'', March 22, 2010


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