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A girl flew through the air at the BCA International Cheerleading and Dance Competition in England this past weekend. More than 1,800 cheerleaders from 47 teams across Europe competed for the title. Whether or not you think cheerleading is outdated, it is spreading outside the US as a competitive sport. View 5 Photos › Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4 Photo 5 Read more
In the popular imagination, cheerleaders wear tiny outfits while dancing, cheering, and serving as eye candy on the sidelines for male athletes. But in an interesting Wall Street Journal article on cheerleading that traces its history and changes, it's acknowledged that although that "earthbound" kind of cheerleading can still be seen at NFL games, an emerging (and potentially dangerous) kind Read more
Cheerleaders might stand on the sidelines, but that doesn't mean they get a timeout from injuries. A new study reveals that cheerleading causes the most serious sport injuries among high school and college athletes. Of course, these injuries aren't caused by overly-enthusiastic hand clapping — rather all that flipping, jumping, and running can result in sprained ankles and broken limbs. So it Read more
If you've seen Bring It On, then you know cheerleading is serious business. Gymnastic moves and daring lifts are just as important, if not more so, than the symbolic pom-poms. When it comes to serious injuries, cheering is number one and those feats of daring are to blame. Cheerleading, at both the high school and college levels, was found to cause the majority of catastrophic injuries in a Read more
Maybe because they've been showing Bring it On all weekend, but I can't believe how this story takes "spirit fingers" and makes it pretty tragic. A 33-year-old mom in Wisconsin, Wendy Brown, is facing felony identity theft charges for taking her daughter's ID and enrolling in high school — just so she could be a cheerleader. Her daughter, incidentally, lives with her grandmother. I suppose Read more
We say goodbye to McKinley High's graduating class of 2012 on this week's season finale of Glee, and while we'll be seeing a lot of these characters next year, for some, it was their swan song (pardon the pun). Everyone is feeling nostalgic, not the least of whom is Mr. Schue, who gives the kids an assignment of picking a goodbye song. The episode is mostly devoted to the characters giving each Read more
Season three of The Vampire Diaries has come to an end, folks, and forgive me if I am still sitting here with my jaw wide open. The finale is eventful, to say the least, and like seasons past, we saw the deaths of a couple of characters — along with the red herring deaths of a couple of characters. Oh, and by that I mean that something super crazy happens in the final moments of the episode Read more
The end of The Vampire Diaries is nearly here and we're positively befuddled after seeing these pics of the season finale. It looks like this will be a major flashback episode, complete with Aunt Jenna and Elena's parents! Given Elena's cheerleading uniform, these are definitely from a time pre-Salvatore brothers, but that's not to say the finale will be totally Stefan and Damon-free; it looks Read more
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