After a tip-off about sexual misconduct in cheerleading, Marisa Kwiatkowski and Tricia Nadolny of USA Today investigated the ...

Is there a more American pastime than cheerleading? Besides the nation’s predilection for both firearms and a lack of healthcare, cheerleading encompasses many of the US’s most identifiable qualities.

When Laila Houston, a 15-year-old high school sophomore in Atlanta, tells her classmates she is a competitive cheerleader, she’s often met with a similar response — mostly from boys, she said. “That’s ...

He's spent a lifetime cheering on the Illini on every kind of field and court, but on the night he was meant to be honored, the founder of a brand-new scholarship for cheerleaders ...

It's the gold standard for cheerleading movies. The rivalry between two cheer squads kicks into high gear when one of them discovers their routines were stolen by a former captain from a different ...

Confirmed: The International Olympic Committee has spirit. The committee voted Tuesday to officially recognize cheerleading. According to The New York Times, International Olympic Committee’s sports ...

Two things that people love to ask me are: Is such-and-such really a sport? And: Are people who do such-and-such really athletes? Usually, I can tell that the people who ask me -- say, are race car ...

Cheerleading is by far the most perilous sport for female athletes in high school and college, accounting for as much as two-thirds of severe school-sports injuries over the past 25 years, according ...