AMA: Cheerleading is a sport

Cheerleading as a sport may be coming to Texas.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/high-schools/headlines/20140610-texas-high-school-cheerleader-competition-may-get-uil-tryout.ece

 

Hell, no one says we have to staff them, do we? Especially if it's like Rhody has said in the past and they don't give out the scores. Make it a call in/mail in like JV swimming or tennis. If they're hosting a meet, it's a photo spread/photo gallery/video.

Now if they do make you staff it, treat it like anything else. Ask the tough questions: "Brianna, what happened on your dismount when you stumbled?" or "Heather, why'd you drop Diana on the throw

And if you cost them scholarships, you've done your job.

 

Which is what should be done. Want the results? Fine. Put the score in. But when parents ask why nobody's name is in the score, ask them what stats resulted from the event. Point out that there aren't any and that you can't just put everyone's name in because you would have to do that for other sports and nobody wants to read about the kid who struck out four times.

 

Cheerleading is not a sport, period. It is an activity. There can be competitive cheerleading but that doesn't make it a sport.

When people pay big bucks to fill a stadium or an arena to watch cheerleaders while there's a football or basketball game going on along the sidelines during timeouts, then it's a sport.

 

BUMP ...
Now an Olympic event.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/s...0161207&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=44929055&_r=3

well, provisional status ...


We'll take the gold, please.
If NFL Cheerleaders and NBA dance teams are eligible, we'll take silver and bronze too.

 

Imagine cheer moms at the trials, muchless the Olympics!

 

The stories about sex in the Olympic Village just got a lot more interesting.

 

Calling cheerleading a sport is a way to get cheerleading mamas' fingers into the athletic department budgets so they can buy frilly short skirts or spanx panty shorts with money that would otherwise go to buy equipment and uniforms for softball, soccer, volleyball and basketball teams -- you know, actual legitimate sports.

 

Or as the tourism sports marketers like to call it -- One of "the competitive arts"....

 

We must live close to each other. I'm pretty sure I know the college of which you speak. And, yes, it seems like the local team is always competing against the same three or four other colleges.

 

Could the IOC be any worse than the concerns currently running all the cheerleading "national championships" we all get pestered about?

 

We had a little to-do about that a couple days ago and even ran a brief, but all this means is that they get to go to some of the meetings. There are a lot of weird "provisional" Olympic sports including air racing (like the Red Bull kind), ballroom dancing, bridge, mountaineering (and ski mountaineering), sumo, ultimate Frisbee and water skiing.