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NEWS ABOUT: cheerleading

cheerleading stories: 10 news summaries

 Daredevil 
 Stunts 
 Crippling 
 Cheerleaders 

Serious injuries skyrocket as performers take to the air

Oct 13, 09 4:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - American high school and college cheerleaders are losing teeth, breaking backs and becoming paralyzed in increasingly dangerous stunts that agonized parents and experts say should be stopped. "I didn't know that they were throwing her up in the air.  Why would the school allow that?" asked one stunned... More »

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high school • health • college • accident • paralysis • cheerleading • male cheerleaders • cheerleaders

glossies

 Critics Boo as Schools 
 Nix Athletic Cheerleading 

UConn accused of sexism for cutting gymnastic routines

Sep 5, 09 7:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ditch all those nasty gymnastics routines, girls, and look cute again! That's what some observers heard when the University of Connecticut ended gymnastic and tumbling skills in its cheerleaders' routines last week, Sarah Ball writes in Newsweek. "Even if school officials weren't solely motivated by wanting to see less... More »

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sexism • college • athletics • cheerleading • cheerleaders • University of Connecticut

 HS Benches Racy Dance Team 


Jan 28, 09 2:48 PM CST
(Newser) - A Georgia high school dance team has been barred from practicing or performing this year after a provocative routine drew parents' ire, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The girls wore skimpy outfits while dancing atop chairs during halftime at a school basketball game. “The team will not perform for... More »

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Atlanta • Georgia • suspension • high school basketball • cheerleading • dance team • halftime • disband • provocative • Jonesboro, Ga.

Give Me an
O! U! C! H!

Cheerleading proves more dangerous
than all other girls' sports combined

Aug 12, 08 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cheerleading accounts for more catastrophic injuries than every other girls’ sport combined, LiveScience reports. Of the 103 fatal, debilitating, or serious injuries female high school athletes incurred between 1982 and 2007, 67 occurred while cheerleading. Participants in the next-most-dangerous activity, gymnastics, sustained just nine such injuries. The proportions for college... More »

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high school • high school sports • sports injuries • cheerleading

Cheerleading's Brave New World Raises Safety Worries

Injuries on the rise; recent death highlights concerns

Apr 19, 08 1:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - As cheerleading has become a spectacle of acrobatic feats with its own events, injuries—some of them deadly—have been on the rise, ABC News reports. In the latest example, a 20-year-old woman died after being accidentally kicked in the chest during a Massachusetts competition last weekend. She suffered damage... More »

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sports • athlete • gymnastics • sports deaths • cheerleading

Video-Beating Teens Could Face Life

They'll be tried as adults on kidnapping, battery charges

Apr 11, 08 11:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - The eight Florida teens who videotaped a half-hour beating of a classmate will be tried as adults and could face life behind bars if convicted, CNN reports. The suspects face felony kidnapping charges, and three also face witness tampering raps. They seemed remorseless, a sheriff said. “They were joking:... More »

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Florida • YouTube • crime • bullying • attack • cyberbullying • cheerleading • teenager

Teenager's
Beating Raises
Cyberbully Fears

Bizarre confrontation triggered by MySpace trash-talking

Apr 10, 08 5:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Parents and educators are still puzzling over how a dispute among girls got so out of hand that it ended with six Florida cheerleaders giving a high school classmate a concussion in a vicious beating. Teen bullying is nothing new but the fact that the feud started on MySpace and... More »

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Florida • YouTube • MySpace • bullying • cyberbullying • cheerleading • teenager

 Teens Tape Beating for Web 

Police say girls ambushed their rival
to post it on YouTube

Apr 8, 08 8:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Six girls aged 14 to 17 lured another teen to a home, beat her and videotaped the ambush to put it on the Internet, Florida police say. The 16-year-old victim is recovering from a concussion and hasn't fully regained her vision. Her assailants, with whom she'd been feuding online, may... More »

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Florida • MySpace • bullying • cheerleading • ambush • taped beating

 Marlins Call Up
 Big-Time Cheerleaders 

Manatees will add weight, if not rhythm, to home games

Mar 29, 08 3:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Weighing in between 225 and 435 pounds, the Florida Marlins' new cheerleaders may take up space better than they dance. But on opening day, the Marlins will introduce fans to the Manatees, baseball’s first all-male, all-plus-sized cheerleading squad, the Los Angeles Times reports. “There are more people... More »

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MLB • Florida Marlins • baseball • cheerleading • male cheerleaders • plus-sized cheerleaders

Fla. Marlins Call For Big-Bellied Cheerleaders

Because baseball needs more plus-size guys jumping around

Feb 24, 08 1:04 PM CST
(Newser) - The Florida Marlins are currently holding tryouts for new male cheerleaders—the chubbier, the better. Though the Marlins already have lean pompom girls rooting on the sidelines, the AP reports, they're looking to create a rotund 10-man squad called the Manatees to boost record-low attendance at home games. But these... More »

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Chicago Bulls • Florida Marlins • baseball • cheerleading • Manatees • Mermaids • Matadors • male cheerleaders • plus-sized cheerleaders • sea cow

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