Darby Cerbo cheered for the Arizona Cardinals until 2021, and throughout her NFL cheerleading career she also worked in a ...

Too! Aggressive! Too, too aggressive! When it comes to risking your neck — and head — cheerleading practice is almost as bad as football. A new report published in the medical journal Pediatrics ...

Think of a dangerous high school sport, and football is probably the first that comes to mind. You might not think of those students in uniform on the sidelines, cheering for the players. And yet ...

At its annual meeting in Chicago recently, the American Medical Association unexpectedly voted to adopt a policy designating cheerleading as a sport. It encouraged appropriate accrediting bodies to do ...

The University of Kentucky cheerleading team has fired its entire coaching staff after an investigation uncovered incidents of hazing, public nudity and excessive alcohol use among cheerleaders. The ...

Five employees at a high school in Denver are on administrative leave after videos surfaced showing several cheerleaders being forced into painful splits — sometimes as the teens repeatedly screamed, ...

McDowell High School's cheerleading team is preparing for a State Sendoff and Victory March to celebrate its latest achievement. The event will take place in the North Gymnasium on Thursday, ...

Miss America has finally retired its antiquated practice of parading women onstage in swimsuits. The National Football League ought to go next. Actually, a beauty-pageant swimsuit competition is mild ...

Judge says calling cheerleading a sport violates federal gender-equality rules. June 21, 2010— -- A judge in Connecticut has ruled cheerleading is not a sport-- and universities therefore cannot ...

Dr. Amy Xu got hooked on cheerleading in the fifth grade. As she pursued the sport in high school and college, she witnessed how the routines started demanding increasingly complex acrobatic feats — ...