Long before Day-Glo hair dye, body piercings and tattoos became familiar fashion statements, Ann Calvello made her mark with a loud look, trashy mouth and rough skating style as a member of roller ...

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Roller Derby was a boisterous niche entertainment option in these parts that featured both men and women in what amounted to equal roles.

Long before Day-Glo hair dye body piercings and tattoos became familiar fashion statements Ann Calvello made her mark with a loud look trashy mouth and rough skating style as a member of roller ...

SAN BRUNO — Ann Calvello, the original "Roller Derby Queen" known for intimidating rivals and even teammates while skating well into her 60s, has died of liver cancer. She was 76.

Commentator Frank Deford remembers one of his favorite athletes: roller derby legend Ann Calvello. Calvello was known as the bad girl of the roller derby circuit. She died last week of cancer.

SAN BRUNO — Ann Calvello, the “queen of the roller derby,” died Tuesday from liver cancer at the Peninsula Medical Center. She was 76. Calvello was diagnosed last week and was told she had ...

SAN BRUNO — Ann Calvello, the “queen of the roller derby,” hung up her legendary skates Tuesday when she died from liver cancer at the Peninsula Medical Center. She was 76.

But, as popular as she was, as popular as the sport was, roller derby was one of the casualties of the '70s, Cowan points out. "I said then," Calvello recalls, " 'roller derby is over.

Long before cartoonish show-wrestling made its incongruous comeback, the undisputed Ugly 'Murrican athletic melodrama of choice was roller derby. And no figure loomed larger in that arena than Ann ...

Ann Calvello, who thrilled roller-derby audiences in California and elsewhere with her spray-painted hair and tattoos, has died at the age of 76.

SAN BRUNO -- Ann Calvello, the original "Roller Derby Queen" known for intimidating rivals and even teammates while skating well into her 60s, has died of liver cancer. She was 76.