After the Minnesota Vikings announced that male cheerleaders Blaize Shiek and Louie Conn were joining their cheer squad, the ...

Social media users have said they will no longer support the Minnesota Vikings, after social media videos showed two male cheerleaders dancing.

The Minnesota Vikings have said that male cheerleaders have "long been associated with collegiate and professional cheerleading." ...

The rise of male cheerleaders in the NFL has divided fans, but former FOX Sports host Joy Taylor called out critics by ...

Including Blaize Shiek and Louie Conn in the Minnesota Vikings' cheerleading roster sparked backlash online, prompting the ...

How Cheerleading Became So Acrobatic, Dangerous and Popular For decades, the sport has been shaped in large part by one company — and one man.

“Cheerleading was my lifelong identify and I had to find myself again without it,” Behnke says. “I’m actually applying to cheerleading coaching jobs right now.

“Global cheerleading is in its infancy,” he said. “It should really take off in four to five years.” In the US, Varsity has used the courts to keep a tight fist on its control of the business.

In schools, though, there are cheerleading matches, with scores, not pompoms. I judged a national collegiate cheerleading competition once. It was an eclectic panel. Dr. Joyce Brothers was next to me.

It seemed like a sport to us. But now a federal judge has ruled that cheerleading is not yet a real sport even though 64,000 high school girls are registered in "competitive spirit squads." ...