Proud members of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA), the Cincinnati Rollergirls are Cincinnati’s all-female, amateur, flat-track roller derby team. Their home turf is the Cincinnati Gardens.

The schedule says their next home games are Saturday, April 12, and Saturday, April 17.

Get the inside scoop about the team at the Roller Derby Diva blog.

But in any case, Cincinnati’s newest sports team is here! The Cincinnati Sizzle! The newest member of the National Women’s Football Association. Sorry Marvin, but they got next.

Coached by former Bengal favorite Ickey Woods, who got out of the flooring business and back onto the gridiron, The Sizzle are sure to, well, sizzle in this sports hungry market.

The biggest difference, Woods said, is getting used to estrogen in a formerly testosterone-dominated sport. Think there’s no crying in baseball? Try NFL-style football.

“There are a lot more emotional things to deal with because women are more sensitive than men,” Woods said. “You’ve got to be a little more patient.”

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On the Friday before Halloween, as darkness falls, an extra sense of adventure cloaks Walnut Hills Cemetery. Hundreds of runners put themselves in this Stephen King scene each year for Run Like Hell.

“It’s like a big Halloween party, only everyone is running down the road. It can get scary, I guess, but the fact that you get to run through a graveyard in the dark, that’s cool.”

“There are maybe one or two other events like this in the country,” says Jill Soldano, an event coordinator for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s Cincinnati chapter.

More at Cincinnati.com and Run Like Hell.

During the races a team of four had to run around the two-block area , exchange a hat, handbag and two-inch pumps.

The Drag Races, a wildly successful annual fundraiser for AVOC, consists of four-person teams donning dresses, purses, wigs and heels and running a relay race down Court Street for the honor of getting the Golden Pump Award.

More at Rainbow Cincinnati and the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Cincinnati.

There exists a place where Pat Nixon strikes out Eleanor Roosevelt. Where Marilyn Monroe hurls a fastball at Bess Truman. Where Mary Todd Lincoln whooshes past the bases like a ghost.No, it’s not heaven. It’s Delhi Township.Here, where the men are men, they’re actually dressed like women.The occasion is Friday’s 27th annual benefit Skirt Game, during which a couple dozen local guys don skirts, wigs, makeup, stockings and shirts bulging with balloons.  Then they play softball.

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Imagine my surprise when I discovered the AP had picked up on this important new craze sweeping the nation.

CINCINNATI – The projectiles are lighter than horseshoes and safer than lawn darts, but the idea’s the same: Players try to hit a target several paces away. The game is called cornhole, or corn toss, because players try to throw cloth bags filled with corn into a hole. It is an Ohio phenomenon that is catching on elsewhere around the Midwest and beyond.

Christy’s Bierstube, Rathskeller and Biergarten, which caters to University of Cincinnati students, has installed a game court. Teams also compete in leagues at Tommy’s on the River, a bar and restaurant on the city’s waterfront.

You don’t have to work up a sweat, either. About the worst thing that could happen is you could spill your beer.

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