Judges Ruling Sparks National Debate Over Cheerleading Sport or No Sport?

FOXNEWS ^ | July 22, 2010 | Diane Macedo

[Jack Hydrazine]

If cheer leading could be turned into full contact cheerleading it might qualify as a sport. Or if the cheers could be judged against the other team and them added to the scores of the football teams they are cheering for it might also qualify as a sport.

[libertarian27]

HBO’s Penn & Teller Bulls*&^ did a good episode on Cheerleaders and sport ranking a couple of weeks ago.

[Mobties]

Siss Boom Yawn!

[Bad~Rodeo]

More like this?

[chris37]

It’s certainly a physical activity, but I’m not sure that it qualifies as a sport.

[nickcarraway]

It’s more of a sport than golf is.

[allmendream]

When they compete, they are a competitive sport.

When they cheer, they are cheering a sport.

It takes a great deal of athleticism, and it has one of the highest rates of injury of any athletic school activity.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Zackly!

[Bad~Rodeo]

I always thought of it more of an event like Nascar or golf but I read somewhere if an event is governed by a set of rules than it’s a sport. One thing for sure is that there’s money to be made

[El Gato]

Or if the cheers could be judged against the other team and them added to the scores of the football teams they are cheering for it might also qualify as a sport.

I guessed you missed that this would be competitive cheerleading. It's nearly as athletic as gymnastics, certainly much more so than say, Golf or bowling.

cheerleading is "too underdeveloped and disorganized" to be treated as an official collegiate sport.

The judge is full of caca del toro.

[Bad~Rodeo]

it takes a great deal of athleticism, and it has one of the highest rates of injury of any athletic school activity.

My son's gf is in competitive cheerleading and 2yrs ago fell from the top of a pyramid and fractured her neck. Did she quit?....hell no, L~

[allmendream]

Overcoming injury to compete?

Sounds vaguely like sportsmanship to me. ;)

Should qualify under Title IX.

[VanDeKoik]

Whom can decided what is or is not a sport?

Dog sledding is a sport.

So is RC boat racing.

Even using catapults to fling pumpkins.

So cheerleading, with teams and organized competition, cant NOT be seen as one either.

[bray]

This is just a way to try to get around that corrupt Title IX. They have to give as many scholies to women as men even though they count the 95 Football scholorships which makes all the revenue.

They try to get cheerleading so they can give 10 more scholies to mens sports. When will women be declared equals?

Pray for Amrica

[TruthConquers]

It’s a kind of dance plus gymnastics.

Not exactly a sport, but not coach potatoe stuff, either.

[org.whodat]

Cheer leading will become a sport when they tell me on what down they kick. LOL, Are is that punt.

[Julia H.]

It’s certainly athletic, and requires no less training and athleticism than anything universally recognized as a sport. But that’s the same with certain types of dance. Is competitive dancing a sport?

[pyx]

Cheerleading for men can be ... umm ... challenging.

[Eagle Eye]

When will women be declared equals?

When they don't need special sports and special treatment.

Do you agree that in order to be equal there should be no gender specific teams, just one volleyball team, one basketball team, one track team, one golf team, etc.?