txsportsscribe
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c'mon people, you're missing the big story here - contact cheerleading!
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It's official: Cheerleading is a sport
- Thread starter beanpole
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now i can see why reilly wrote about cheerleading and got a ton of hate mail. geez, useless part of every athletic event. i've often wondered just how many people really cheer when the cheerleaders want them to cheer.
besides, for our poor photographers, they kill a lot of space on each end of the court at hoops' games. yep, in the way more than anything.
besides, for our poor photographers, they kill a lot of space on each end of the court at hoops' games. yep, in the way more than anything.
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Bamadog said:
Get educated. Then come back and have a conversation with the grown-ups.
Starman
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Bamadog said:
We've gone into this in depth on the 3,987 other "cheerleading-is-not-a-sport" threads, and here's the distilled version:
Cheerleading mothers wanting to get their fingers into Title IX-mandated funding for legitimate girls' sports is the motivation behind the big push to get cheerleading, and now dance team, designated as official varsity sports.
Instead of holding bake sales to pay for new pom-pons and matching home-and-away panties, they can just send the bill to the Athletic Director.
When cheerleading becomes a sport, the cheerleaders get reversible skirts while gymnastics and water polo get cancelled. When dance team becomes a sport, volleyball and softball see their budgets go down.
