Illinois businessman Shahid Khan reached agreement with owners Chip Rosenbloom and his sister, Lucia Rodriguez on Feb. 11 to buy the team for an estimated $750 million. Last month, Missouri billionaire Stan Kroenke who already owned 40 percent of the team exercised his right to match the offer and purchase the remaining 60 percent of the club..Feels pretty awesome to be the favorite roller girl, says Erin Brains Tiel, who been skating with the Emerald City Roller Girls since the league founding four years ago. You can miss her on the track: Just look for the tall brunette with her face painted white and streaked with blood. Even via email, Tiel bubbles over with enthusiasm for her sport and her community, writing about the many bouts (at home and all over the West Coast) the ECRG has planned in the upcoming months, and explaining that derby is a lot of fun, also takes an amazing amount of devotion.

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