My nose hovered just centimeters above the scuffed basketball court, legs folded beneath me in a perfect Z, my back flat enough to serve tea on. As a chugging synth melody filled the gym, I felt my ...

For decades, the sport has been shaped in large part by one company — and one man. Members of the Valley Elite All Stars in Allentown, Pa., which is sending an elite team to Varsity Spirit events to ...

In this op-ed, Teen Vogue identity editor Brittney McNamara explores how Netflix's "Cheer" earned cheerleading respect as a sport, but for the wrong reasons. For years, cheerleading has been seen as a ...

Seated in an interrogation room in a Washington state jail, Lenny Lewis Jr. spun an implausible tale about why he had downloaded child pornography onto his co-worker’s laptop. Lewis explained to Kent ...

As a sport grows more competitive and demanding, an archetype has emerged. By Hayley Krischer By mid-January of this year, Kristen Wheeler, a self-described “cheer mom,” was exhausted. She was ...