The University of Kansas has suspended four cheerleaders after a photo circulated on Snapchat showing three male cheerleaders posing in Kansas “K” sweaters. Written underneath the three, in bold letters, was the caption, “KKK go Trump.”
The New York Jets are paying out approximately $324,000 to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by the team’s cheerleading squad over low wages.
This past July, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a law officially classifying professional cheerleaders as employees, entitled to minimum wage, sick leave, overtime and workers’ compensation. But why bother? After all, they work right next to some very rich men, and that’s the whole point, isn’t it?
A bill introduced on Thursday by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez would give professional cheerleaders in California employee rights and benefits. Because that is something that we, as Americans, do not in this present day believe they deserve.
By now, it's been established several times over that NFL cheerleaders are treated terribly: on Monday, a former cheerleader from the Tampa Buccaneers filed a sued the team, claiming that she was paid less than two dollars an hour. This makes the Buccaneers the fifth NFL team to face a similar suit this year. Hooray…
A former NFL cheerleader has filed suit against the New York Jets, alleging that the team paid her and her fellow cheerleaders a criminally low amount of money. As it stands, cheerleaders from four NFL teams — the Jets, the Bengals, the Raiders, and the Bills — have filed suit against their respective teams, each…
News recently broke that the Oakland Raiders are allegedly paying their cheerleaders (the Raiderettes) wages as criminally low as $5 per hour and now, as more facts about the team are revealed, it's turning out that not only do they pay the Raiderettes next to nothing — they also treat them like they're social fucking…
The Internet — surely you've heard of it. It's that magical place where mostly-ordinary people become famous in the most absurd of ways. Case in point: high school cheerleaders who just happen to be so Instagram-famous that they have their own fan bases, haters, and scandals. Otherwise known as — I kid you not —…
Thank the Lawd! Cheerleaders of a Texan High School just won a hard-fought battle against sinners: a judge has ruled that the cheerleaders can temporarily continue their official game ritual and hold their Bible banners up. Yay, it's religious freedom.
Cheerleaders at one Texas high school have fought tooth, nail, and poms to hold signs containing scripture verses at football games, despite a statewide ban on the practice. Yesterday, their prayers were answered when a judge granted them the right to literally tote the Bible around on the sidelines. B-E! R-E-G!…
Lovejoy High School in Clayton County, Georgia, is the home of the Wildcats. Cheering for the Wildcats are the Lovejoy High School cheerleaders, coached by a woman who recently hosted a team sleepover in her house. According to The Smoking Gun, the coach and the teens played a game called "Judge and Jury." The coach…
It's no longer possible to blame Jessica Simpson for Tony Romo's troubles on the field, so the Wall Street Journal has come up with an alternate theory: Perhaps cheerleaders are jinxing teams in the NFL. Six teams, the Bears, Browns, Giants, Lions, Packers and Steelers, don't have cheerleaders, and Jared Diamond…
BALTIMORE, MD - OCTOBER 30: Members of the Baltimore Ravens cheerleaders preform during the second half of the Ravens and Arizona Cardinals game at M&T Bank Stadium on October 30, 2011 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)
The cheerleaders at Jackson High School in Everett, WA, have probably been watching a lot of Dazed And Confused lately.
After a Columbia Central High School sophomore sued the school's cheerleading coach, the board of ed, the principal and the director of schools, a judge issued a restraining order against the squad; for the moment, no new cheerleaders can be selected.
Dallas, Feb 5: Jersey Shore's Pauly D "Aw, shucks"es his way through a small gathering of Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. (Image via Getty)
The Packers and Steelers are two of six NFL teams that don't have their own cheerleading squads. But how will people know who to cheer for now? How will anyone know when good stuff is happening?! America will be lost!
NFL cheerleaders serve many purposes. In addition to lining the sidelines in order to remind the male fans watching men tackling other men for hours that they're not gay, they also make their respective teams cash. Lots of cash.
A federal judge in Connecticut has ruled that cheerleading isn't really a sport. Many cheerleaders would beg to differ.
At 78, Fumie Takino is the oldest member of "Japan Pom Pom," the senior cheerleading squad she founded. Some women were initially nervous about performing in skimpy outfits, but Takino says, "Everyone gets old, so why not just have fun?" [Reuters]