Read more cheerleading stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/24070/cheerleading.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:47:12 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71528/daredevil-stunts-crippling-cheerleaders.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAmerican high school and college cheerleaders are losing teeth, breaking backs and becoming paralyzed in increasingly dangerous stunts that agonized parents and experts say should be stopped. "I didn't know that they were throwing her up in the air. Why would the school allow that?" asked one stunned Los Angeles...http://www.newser.com/story/71528/daredevil-stunts-crippling-cheerleaders.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 13 Oct 2009 4:29:48 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68577/critics-boo-as-schools-nix-athletic-cheerleading.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDitch all those nasty gymnastics routines, girls, and look cute again! That's what some observers heard when the University of Connecticut ended gymnastic and tumbling skills in its cheerleaders' routines last week, Sarah Ball writes in Newsweek . "Even if school officials weren't solely motivated by wanting to see less gymnastics...http://www.newser.com/story/68577/critics-boo-as-schools-nix-athletic-cheerleading.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 05 Sep 2009 19:19:57 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/49244/hs-benches-racy-dance-team.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Georgia high school dance team has been barred from practicing or performing this year after a provocative routine drew parents' ire, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The girls wore skimpy outfits while dancing atop chairs during halftime at a school basketball game. “The team will not perform for the remainder...http://www.newser.com/story/49244/hs-benches-racy-dance-team.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 28 Jan 2009 14:48:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/34747/give-me-an-o-u-c-h.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCheerleading accounts for more catastrophic injuries than every other girls’ sport combined, LiveScience reports. Of the 103 fatal, debilitating, or serious injuries female high school athletes incurred between 1982 and 2007, 67 occurred while cheerleading. Participants in the next-most-dangerous activity, gymnastics, sustained just nine such injuries. The proportions for college...http://www.newser.com/story/34747/give-me-an-o-u-c-h.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 12 Aug 2008 12:45:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/25021/cheerleadings-brave-new-world-raises-safety-worries.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAs cheerleading has become a spectacle of acrobatic feats with its own events, injuries—some of them deadly—have been on the rise, ABC News reports. In the latest example, a 20-year-old woman died after being accidentally kicked in the chest during a Massachusetts competition last weekend. She suffered damage...http://www.newser.com/story/25021/cheerleadings-brave-new-world-raises-safety-worries.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 19 Apr 2008 13:11:48 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/24151/video-beating-teens-could-face-life.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe eight Florida teens who videotaped a half-hour beating of a classmate will be tried as adults and could face life behind bars if convicted, CNN reports. The suspects face felony kidnapping charges, and three also face witness tampering raps. They seemed remorseless, a sheriff said. “They were joking: ‘I...http://www.newser.com/story/24151/video-beating-teens-could-face-life.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 11 Apr 2008 11:41:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/24017/teenagers-beating-raises-cyberbully-fears.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagParents and educators are still puzzling over how a dispute among girls got so out of hand that it ended with six Florida cheerleaders giving a high school classmate a concussion in a vicious beating. Teen bullying is nothing new but the fact that the feud started on MySpace and...http://www.newser.com/story/24017/teenagers-beating-raises-cyberbully-fears.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 10 Apr 2008 5:20:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/23852/teens-tape-beating-for-web.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSix girls aged 14 to 17 lured another teen to a home, beat her and videotaped the ambush to put it on the Internet, Florida police say. The 16-year-old victim is recovering from a concussion and hasn't fully regained her vision. Her assailants, with whom she'd been feuding online, may...http://www.newser.com/story/23852/teens-tape-beating-for-web.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 08 Apr 2008 20:47:48 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/22883/marlins-call-up-big-time-cheerleaders.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWeighing in between 225 and 435 pounds, the Florida Marlins' new cheerleaders may take up space better than they dance. But on opening day, the Marlins will introduce fans to the Manatees, baseball’s first all-male, all-plus-sized cheerleading squad, the Los Angeles Times reports. “There are more people who look like...http://www.newser.com/story/22883/marlins-call-up-big-time-cheerleaders.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 29 Mar 2008 15:40:22 CDT