Cheerleading Is a Sport Essay Examples and Research Papers

The purpose of this research is to further expand upon the short article Cheerleading: Is It A Sport that is found in the textbook Sociology of North American Sport by Sage and Eitzen. The article argues that some cheerleading programs consist of complex physical skills that are required for competitions and thus should be granted…

Introduction As James Brown states, “This is a man’s world . . . but it would be nothing without a woman. . .” and although this may be true in the real world, in the world of sports it is quite the opposite (Brown 1966). If someone was asked to name three male professional athletes,…