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...chilly Friday night, and the varsity cheerleaders of Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Md., can see their breath as they cheer for their football team, the Vikings. The girls bounce, tumble and lift smaller members onto human towers. The Viking princesses wear their hair in neat ponytails, scrubbed faces straining with smiles, voices rubbed raw with exertion. A girl with springs for legs does backflips along the edge of the field. "We didn't do stunts like this when I was a cheerleader, many moons ago," sighs Brenda LeGrand, their coach...
Some of the biggest wheels in the cheer business (known as the "spirit" industry) are the increasingly popular "All-Star" competitive squads, which are run out of private gyms, often as part of gymnastic clubs. All-Stars are the flashy fringe of the cheering world; because they are privately run and unencumbered by school affiliation, the squads blur the boundaries between spectacular gymnastics, outrageous stunts, cheer and dance. They have helped make competitive cheer the fastest-growing women's sport in the country. The squads exist to practice, perform and compete, and have popularized an in-your-face style...
...that she feels were way too sexy. "We don't want to see squads 'humping' the floor, thrusting their pelvises and slapping their butts," she says. "Sometimes I'll tell a squad after competition, 'You're really good, but you really need to tone down your suggestive moves.'" Some cheer associations have adopted guidelines telling squads they will be penalized in competition for such movements, for inappropriate clothing and for "slashing"--a particularly aggressive form of cheering that has squads more or less taunting the audience with body movements and hand gestures...
...hurricane that is the undefeated Harvard football team make short work of the pasty and feeble Bulldogs. And we pray for the safety of tens of thousands of loyal Harvard fans who will descend upon New Haven, braving the crack dealers, prostitutes and other prestigious Yale alumni to cheer on their undefeated team...
Every play was perfect. Every cheer for the home team was deserved...