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October 4, 2010 at 9:25 am
Sounds like someone didn’t get picked to be a cheerleader and is just a teensy bit jealous. Additionally, cheerleading in many places is not just chanting and clapping. Those schools in Texas take it very seriously and they’re more like acrobats than anything else.
Also, anyone who thinks autoracing isn’t a sport doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Let’s see her handle a car through a 180 mph turn pulling 4 g’s. Ain’t gonna happen.
October 4, 2010 at 8:56 pm
A quibble, but a most significant one:
I most specifically implied that cheerleading is athletic and that auto-racing is a sport in drawing my contrast.
Indeed, Howard Cosell once confounded an interviewer when he was asked what he believed were the bravest sportsmen (these days I guess the interviewer would have said “sportsmen or sportswomen.” The questioner expected Cosell to say “football” or “basketball” or some other contest that involves the possibility of injury.
Cosell said that it was auto-racing, because the drivers put their lives on the line in every event.
I do not believe that cheerleading is a sport any more than marching band is a sport.
Cheerleaders may be superbly athletic and may take themselves (and be taken) very seriously, but cheerleading competitions are no more sports events than are band competitions, though both require athletic skills, timing, and precision, and result in prizes at the end.
October 5, 2010 at 9:02 am
sooooooo….what the line between sport/non-sport? The ability to score points? Is something a sport if there’s no defense? (think swimming, decathalon, running, etc)
October 5, 2010 at 10:06 am
I talked about this in July, when a U.S. court ruled that cheerleading is not a college sport for Title IX purposes: http://www.glomarization.com/2010/07/competitive-cheering-does-not-fall.html
October 5, 2010 at 3:24 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport
Settled